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Japa (/ j ɑː k p ə /) is a Yoruba language word used as a Nigerian slang term that has gained widespread usage among Nigerian youths. [1] [2] The term is used to describe the act of escaping, fleeing, or disappearing quickly from a situation, often in a hasty and urgent manner.
Southern Nigerian women choose to wear western-style clothing. People in urban regions of Nigeria dress in western style, the youth mainly wearing jeans and T-shirts. Other Nigerian men and women typically wear a traditional style called Buba. For men the loose-fitting shirt goes down to halfway down the thigh.
The Awori is a subgroup of the Yoruba people speaking a dialect of the Yoruba language.The Awori people are the original inhabitants of Lagos State and some parts of Ogun State, namely Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.
In an ambitious effort to chart the lineage of Yoruba and Afrobeats music over the past century and its global influence, Nigerian superstar Adekunle Gold has co-produced a forthcoming documentary ...
There are over 520 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria.The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most common lingua franca, spoken by over 60 million people.
Efik-Ibibio is a dialect cluster spoken by about 15 million people of Akwa Ibom State and about 5 million people of Cross River States of Nigeria, making it the fifth largest language cluster in Nigeria after Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani. The major Efik-Ibibio languages are: Anaang (5.5 million speakers, 2018 estimate)
The Gbagyi were the largest among the ethnic groups that inhabited the land proposed for development when Abuja was chosen as Nigeria's new federal capital. The result was dislocation, the removal of people from their ancestral homes, from spiritual symbols such as Zuma Rock , [ 12 ] seeing their ancestral land referred to as no-man's land, and ...
LGBTQ culture in Nigeria (2 C, 2 P) M. Mass media in Nigeria (20 C, 13 P) N. National symbols of Nigeria (2 C, 12 P) Nigerian names (5 C, 25 P) O.