The Ebira people are an ethnic-linguistic group of North central Nigeria. Most Ebira people are from Kogi State and Nasarawa State. Their language is...
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Ebira (pronounced as /eh 'be ra/; also known as Igbira, Egbura, or Okene) is a Niger-Congo language. It is spoken by around 2 million people in North central...
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Nigeria. To the northeast and adjacent to the Ebira and northern Edo, groups are the related Igala people on the left bank of the Niger River. To the south...
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The Ohinoyi of Ebiraland is the traditional ruler of the Ebira people. The title Atta of Ebiraland has also historically been used for this position but...
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Malik Ado-Ibrahim (category Ebira people)
In June 2022, Ibrahim became the presidential flag bearer of the Young People's Party (YPP) against the 2023 Nigerian elections by polling over 66 votes...
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century. The proximity of Nupe to the Yoruba Igbomina people in the south and to the Yoruba Oyo people in the southwest led to cross-fertilization of cultural...
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indigenous in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. This means Gbagyi people are the bonafide owners of the Nigerian capital city, Abuja. Historically...
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Ozovehe is a given name of the Ebira people; it means "child is life". The name is usually given to first male born of a family. However, it is not exclusively...
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Akoko (section Notable people)
Yorubaland and are bound to the north by the Owé Okun Yorubas and the Ebira people, to the west by the Ekitis, to the south by the Owos and the Owan/Ora...
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Ado Ibrahim (category Ebira people)
Nuhuman (1996). Ebira Vacant Stool: Dr. Amezigi Ayamuku Drops Rotation for Ogu Clan for Ohinoyi and Governor for Omavi Clan. Ebira Tao Social Club. Retrieved...
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Pius Lasisi Jimoh (category Ebira people)
Pius Lasisi Jimoh (10 February 1950 – 29 March 2014) was an Ebira born businessman and a Second Republic Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria representing...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (redirect from Gojira, Ebira, Mosura: Nankai no Daikettô)
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ 南海の大決闘, Gojira Ebira Mosura Nankai no Dai-kettō, lit. Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas) is...
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cultural region of the Ebira people; the district also has significant non-Ebira ethnic minorities (mainly Gbagyi and Nupe peoples). Incumbent Yakubu Oseni...
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indigenous to the area, other ethnic groups, including the Kupa-Nupe, Hausa, Ebira, Igala, Igbo, Bini/Edo, and Tiv have recently established themselves. Lokoja...
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The Ukwuani people (also called Ndokwa people are a subgroup of the Igbo people located in the southern part of Nigeria in the western part of the Niger...
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Kakanda, Ebira (Panda and Koto), Gbagyi and Igala. To the west of Okun land are the Igbomina and Ekiti Yoruba subgroups. Historically, Okun people lived...
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Sunday Ododo (category Living people)
dramatic performances of the Ebira people, Ododo developed a theory called "Facekuerade". In his research on the Ebira-Ekuechi festival, which is reported...
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Another wave of settlers, the Gbagyi people, arrived from Bauchi and established themselves in Kurunduma. Some Ebira immigrants also arrived around the...
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Central Senatorial District (specifically some groups representing the Ebira people) are pushing for the office to be retained by their district by claiming...
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that: The people of the Middle-Belt are not in the North and cannot therefore be northerners...Since it pleases God to distinguish the people he created...
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descendants of the people of Kwararafa. Most of the tribes in the north central of Nigeria trace their origin to the Jukun people and are related in one...
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million people in the Niger-Benue confluence of central Nigeria; it is excised from the main body of Yoruboid languages to the west by Ebira and the northern...
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smoke terrorism out of our state." Wada also visited the Ohinoyi of the Ebira people to express displeasure at the situation in his territory. Residents of...
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of Zuba people. However, being a commercial and transit area, it records a large number of other tribes like Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Igala, Ebira, Nupe etc...
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Igu (Egbura), northwest by Kakanda, west by the Abinu and to the south by Ebira land. It is a mountainous terrain. A number of Oworo communities are on...
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Kogi State (section History and people)
been inhabited for years by various ethnic groups, including the Igala, Ebira, Gbagyi, and Nupe (mainly the Bassa Nge, Kakanda, and Kupa subgroups) in...
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2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022. Adive, J.R., 1989. The Verbal Piece in Ebira. Publication in Linguistics No. 85. Summer Institute of Linguistics and...
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List of ethnic groups in Nigeria (redirect from Dibo people)
native speakers. Over 500 languages are spoken among its about 230 million people. This is a result of the number of existing ethnic groups. Some of the popular...
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Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (category Living people)
2022, the Ooni has married six women, the first being Mariam Anako, an Ebira of Kogi State origin, on September 6, 2022. Then, Elizabeth Opeoluwa Akinmuda...
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