The Urhobos are people located in southern Nigeria, near the northwestern Niger Delta. They are the major ethnic groups in Delta State. The people in this...

Urhobo is a South-Western Edoid language spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria. It is from the Delta and Bayelsa States. Urhobo has a rather...

to the Yoruba of South Western Nigeria and also close to the Urhobo people and Edo peoples. The Itsekiris traditionally refer to their land as the Kingdom...

Look up Urhobo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urhobo may refer to: Urhobo people, of Nigeria Urhobo language, their Edo language This disambiguation...

group. Quoting Johnstone (1993), Ethnologue puts the population of Urhobo people at 546,000, Okpe 25,400 (2000) and Uvwie 19,800 (2000). These three...

small, single-legged man smoking a pipe). Aziza is also a god of the Urhobo people of the Western Niger Delta of Nigeria. However there is only one original...

Oghenekowhoyan Onaibe Desmond (born 12 May 1984) is a Nigerian comedian and businessman. He won the best comedian award organized by Naija FM in 2019 and...

is a town in Delta state, Nigeria. It is also home to two of the main 24 urhobo kingdoms. It is mostly known as a university town and has the main campus...

June 1912 – 6 March 1972) was an Urhobo nationalist from Okpara Inland and the first principal of the premier Urhobo College Effurun, Uvwie. He was one...

- namely, Urhobo, Ijaw and Anioma.[1] Urhobo are related in language and culture, leading to the invaders erroneously labelling the Urhobo and Isoko cultural...

Kingdom (also Agbon ẹkwuotọ ) is one of twenty-four subunits of the Urhobo people that have been in existence since before the rise of the Benin Empire...

The Igbe religion, popularly known as Igbe (an Urhobo word meaning dance), was founded by Ubiecha Etarakpo in 1858 and has its headquarters at 11, Egbo...

for services to literature. Ben Okri is a member of the Urhobo people; his father was Urhobo, and his mother was half-Igbo ("from a royal family"). He...

Ukodo is a yam and unripe plantain dish of the Urhobo people of Nigeria. It is essentially a pottage, a soup of meat and vegetable with its base as the...

spoken in Bayelsa State, along with Isoko and Urhobo. The state is also the ancestral home of the Urhobo people in the Sagbama local government area. As a...

with palm fruit like in palm nut soup. The dish is common among the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria. Banga is the juice extracted from palm nut fruit...

Akasha Urhobo (born 19 January 2007) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of world No. 290, achieved on 4 November...

the current local government chairman. It is home to the itsekiri and Urhobo people. "Warri South (Local Government Area, Nigeria) - Population Statistics...

soup eaten in the south-central region of Nigeria. It is common among the Urhobo and Isoko. The soup is made with Garri soaked in water after palm oil and...

which is one of the two Urhobo kingdoms in Warri South Local Government, Delta State, Nigeria, the other being Okere-Urhobo. The name 'Agbassa' is of...

try to bypass the Itsekiri middlemen so as to trade directly with the Urhobo people. A further complication was that because of technical improvements in...

Okere-Urhobo is the name of one of the two Urhobo kingdoms in Warri South Local Government, Delta State, Nigeria, the other being Agbassa. Okere-Urhobo is...

region's influence and culture reflects that of the Edo, Urhobo, Esan and other Edo related peoples. There are also 18 local government areas in Edo. These...

University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He wrote several books including The Urhobo People, On the Path of Progress, Ethnic Pluralism and Ethnic Conflicts in Nigeria...

wife. Levirate marriage is also considered in the tradition of the Urhobo people, a major ethnic group in the Delta State. In Somalia, levirate marriage...

language of Nigeria spoken by the Urhobo people. The sound system is rather conservative, and nearly the same as that of Urhobo. The vowels system is the same...

Professor Peter Palmer Ekeh, Founder of Urhobo Historical Society, later wrote in his book: History of the Urhobo People of Niger Delta, that "The evangelical...

people of Ode Awure (Usen)". 11 October 2021. "Edo South also comprises mainly the Bini ethnic group. There are however some Ijaw, Itsekiri, Urhobo and...

Ogheneruemu Patrick Sanomi, was the second national vice-president of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) and a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police...

Bruce Onobrakpeya was born in Agbarha-Otor in Delta State, the son of an Urhobo carver. He was raised as a Christian, but also learned the traditional beliefs...