Nigeria's constitution ensures de jure freedom of religion, and it is home to some of the world's largest Muslim and Christian populations. Nigeria is...
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Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was derived from the Niger River running...
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robust cosmology. Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all...
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Jollof rice (redirect from Nigerian jollof rice)
competition among the countries of West Africa, and in particular between Nigeria and Ghana, over whose version is the best; in the 2010s this developed...
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List of religious populations (redirect from Religion populations)
Indonesia 86.7% Malaysia 61.3% Nigeria 53.5% Ethiopia 41.0% Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion, including agnostics and atheists...
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2009 Boko Haram uprising (redirect from 2009 Nigeria battles)
Haram, a militant Islamist group, and Nigerian security forces. Violence across several states in northeastern Nigeria resulted in more than 1,000 dead, with...
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in the culture and religions of the people in each area. Competition for political and economic power exacerbated tensions. Nigeria gained independence...
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Ifá (category Afro-American religion)
Press Nigeria. Repr., Brooklyn, N.Y.: Athelia Henrietta Press, 1997. Abimbola, ’Wande. 1997. Ifá Will Mend Our Broken World: Thoughts on Yoruba Religion and...
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Religion in Australia is diverse. In the 2021 national census, 43.9% of Australians identified with Christianity and 38.9% declared "no religion". Australia...
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"Consolidating Nigeria-AU ties". Tribune Online. Retrieved 2024-05-03. "OIC and the myth of islamisation in Nigeria". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World...
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Christianity is the most widely professed religion in South Sudan, with significant minorities of the adherents of traditional faiths and Islam. President...
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Nigeria p. 54 on. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-299-22910-8. Retrieved 7 April 2017. Partridge, Christopher (2004). New Religions...
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plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to tropical West Africa from Nigeria east to the Congo. It is most commonly known as the snake plant, Saint...
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Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. In sociology, desecularization...
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influenced through syncretism. A common syncretic religion is Vodou, which combined the Yoruba religion of enslaved Africans with Catholicism and some Native...
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Yoruba people (category Ethnic groups in Nigeria)
upheld by a significant proportion of the populations of Nigeria, Benin and Togo. The Yoruba religion comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts...
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Australia (redirect from ISO 3166-1:AU)
Australia has no state religion; section 116 of the Australian Constitution prohibits federal legislation that would establish any religion, impose any religious...
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violence are on the high and show no signs of reduction in Nigeria, regardless of age, tribe, religion, or even social status. The CLEEN Foundation reports...
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Kanuri language (category Languages of Nigeria)
Nilo–Saharan language family spoken by the Kanuri and Kanembu peoples in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as by a diaspora community residing...
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The headquarters of the company is in Accra, Ghana. It has presence in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. Graduates of the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School...
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Prevalent in Nigeria". Voice of Nigeria. Akuche, Andre Ben Moses; Nyiam, Ogbiji (1 August 2015). "RELIGION AS A PRETEXT FOR THE ABUSE OF THE NIGERIAN CHILD"...
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shows people of different countries with different social background, religions, and languages existing in the same classroom, learning English as a foreign...
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that 31% of Nigerian women had been victims of domestic violence. Nigerian perceptions of domestic violence vary based on region, religion, and class....
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children in school attack". smh.com.au. Retrieved 8 July 2013. Soffer, Ari. "Islamists Massacre 50 Students at Nigerian School". Retrieved 28 October 2013...
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Hausa animism (redirect from Bòòríí religion)
Hausa animism, Maguzanci or Bori is a pre-Islamic traditional religion of the Hausa people of West Africa that involves magic and spirit possession. While...
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Islam and Christianity are the most widely professed religions in Chad. Smaller populations of non-religious people as well as adherents of other faiths...
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Ping condemned the attacks and reiterated the AU's solidarity with the people and the government of Nigeria and its full support to their efforts to prevent...
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New Zealand has no state religion and freedom of religion has been protected since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. While New Zealand was predominantly...
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Anglican Communion – 85 million Church of England – 25.0 million Church of Nigeria – 20.1 million Church of Uganda – 8.1 million Anglican Church of Kenya...
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