• The Urhobos are people located in southern Nigeria, near the northwestern Niger Delta. The Urhobos are one of the three major ethnic groups in Delta State...
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  • 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...
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  • Usi (food) (redirect from Urhobo usi)
    starch dish of the Urhobo Isoko people of Nigeria. The starch is derived from cassava (manioca). Typically eaten by the Urhobo people of Nigeria with a...
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    Yorubaland sub-groups - Ijebu, Akure, Ikale, Ilaje, Ondo and Owo, but also Edo, Urhobo, Ijaw, Anglo-Scottish and Portuguese and are today mainly Christian (Protestant...
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    acquired a school certificate in 1951. The Urhobo people have benefited greatly from Michael Ibru's legacy. Urhobo men and women have profited at many levels...
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  • family descent. Richly cultured and powerful, residents identify as 'Urhobo People' and are an important aspect of the state. The land is surrounded by...
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  • 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...
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    in the south-central region of Nigeria. It is common among the itsekiri, Urhobo such as . The soup is made with garri soaked in water after palm oil and...
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  • needed] Ekeh, Peter Palmer; Society, Urhobo Historical (2007-01-10). History of the Urhobo people of Niger Delta. Urhobo Historical Society. p. 285. ISBN 978-978-077-288-8...
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  • Look up Urhobo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urhobo may refer to: Urhobo people, of Nigeria Urhobo language, their Edo language This disambiguation...
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  • Nana Olomu (category Itsekiri people)
    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...
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    - namely, Urhobo, Ijaw and Anioma.[1] Urhobo are related in language and culture, leading to the invaders erroneously labelling the Urhobo and Isoko cultural...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Aziza (African mythology) (category Mythological peoples)
    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...
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  • Agbon Kingdom (category Urhobo people)
    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...
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  • Destalker (comedian) (category Urhobo people)
    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...
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    region's influence and culture reflects that of the Edo, Urhobo, Esan and other Edo related peoples. Edo fashion typically includes coral beads, anklets,...
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    Edo people. Bini owo soup This is one simple soup eaten by the Edos. The soup is quite different in content from the owo (or Owho) of Urhobo people in...
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  • 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...
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    Isoko and Urhobo. The state is the primary home for the Ijaws, their ancestral home. The state is also the ancestral home of the Urhobo people in the Sagbama...
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  • M. G. Ejaife (category Urhobo people)
    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...
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    Ben Okri (category Urhobo people)
    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...
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    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...
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  • Norbert Young (category Urhobo people)
    Norbert Young is a Nigerian actor. He has appeared in series like Third Eye, Tinsel, and Family Circle.In addition to his work in television and films...
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  • 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...
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  • Tokpabere (2006). "Aesthetics and Rituals of the Opha Ceremony among the Urhobo People". Journal of Asian and African Studies. 41 (3): 249–260. doi:10.1177/0021909606063880...
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    Onigu Otite (category People from Delta State)
    University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He wrote several books including The Urhobo People, On the Path of Progress, Ethnic Pluralism and Ethnic Conflicts in Nigeria...
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    Igho Sanomi (category Urhobo people)
    Ogheneruemu Patrick Sanomi, was the second national vice-president of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) and a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police...
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    the Urhobo Nation. It also serves as the headquarters of Ughelli North local government area of Delta State. The city is indigenous to the Urhobo ethnic...
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