Current president Obasanjo & this largest Nigerian city are both of Yoruba origin
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Ethnicity in Nigeria | PBS NewsHour  Apr 5, 2007 ... Though the groups originated in different parts of West Africa, religion, ... The largest of the major ethnic groups, Hausa and Fulani have been ... Yoruba now form the majority in Lagos, the second most populous city in Africa. ... Yoruba named Olusegun Obasanjo became Nigeria's president and first elected...
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Olusegun Obasanjo - Wikipedia  Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR is a former Nigerian Army general who was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. A Nigerian of Yoruba descent, Obasanjo was a career soldier before serving .... from them in 1985. Buhari is now the current Nigerian president, after being democratically elected.
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J! Archive - Show #4470, aired 2004-01-30  Jan 30, 2004 ... (Cheryl) He played police chief Martin Brody in both "Jaws" & the first ... Current president Obasanjo & this largest Nigerian city are both of...
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Nigeria - Wikipedia  The Federal Republic of Nigeria Listen/nadri/, commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a ... It overtook South Africa to become Africa's largest economy in 2014. Also ... Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in May 2014 claimed that Boko Haram ... The origin of the name Niger, which originally applied only to the middle...
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Yoruba people - Wikipedia  Coordinates: 72758N 43358E / 7.466N 4.566E / 7.466; 4.566. The Yoruba or ... The majority of this population is from Nigeria and make up 21% of its ... and Ajami during the 19th century, in origin referring to the Oyo exclusively. .... For a long time also, Ibadan, one of the major Yoruba cities, was the largest...
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Addis Ababa | Journeys International  Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union, as well as its ... Addis Ababa University was formerly known as Haile Selassie I University, after ... who donated his Genete Leul Palace to be the University main campus in 1961. ... also home to a museum), Holy Trinity Cathedral (once the largest Ethiopian...
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Jeopary Questions page 2238 - 7 DEADLY SINS - TriviaBistro.com  '56: Queen Elizabeth & the Duke of Edinburgh made an official visit to Lagos in this, Britain's largest African colony  "FORE": He won the best actor award at the...
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Nigeria facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  Federal Republic of Nigeria ... The green outer stripes represent Nigerian agriculture. .... by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources .... Nigeria Airways also flies to many West African destinations, to Nairobi, Kenya ... Internal unrest began almost as soon as Nigeria raised its own flag; but its...
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News for Nigeria  Nigeria's president Buhari has trumpeted his intentions to improve the ease of doing business in Africa's largest economy. But dataand...
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15 Biggest Cities In Africa - WorldAtlas.com  Sep 19, 2016 ... Lagos, Nigeria, the largest city in Africa, remains one of the fastest growing ... The Borgen Project reports an annual growth of 2 to 3 percent of Nigeria's population. ... Nairobi is Kenya's capital and the country's largest city. ... But it's estimated to have a population of about 1.4 million people according to the...
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What You Should Know About Ikorodu Town (2) - Nigeria Real Estate  Jan 29, 2016 ... Ikorodu town is located in Lagos state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies near the Lagos Lagoon, on the Bight of Benin, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Lagos. ... state; a border town that can be linked to other parts of the country.
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Bujumbura - Wikipedia  Bujumbura formerly Usumbura, is the capital, largest city, and main port of Burundi. It ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton and tin ore. It is on the north-eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest lake...
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Abuja - Wikipedia  Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria. It is located in the centre of Nigeria, within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Abuja is a planned city, which was built mainly in the 1980s. It officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991, replacing Lagos, though the latter remains the country's most populous city. ..... It was named after Nigeria's first president, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.
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Addis Ababa - New World Encyclopedia  Feb 11, 2016 ... This city's name is sometimes spelled "Addis Abeba," which means "new flower" in the Amharic language. Empress Taitu named the city, which is also known by the Oromo language name Finfinnee. ... The name changed to Addis Ababa and became Ethiopia's capital when Menelik II became Emperor of...
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Biggest Cities In Nigeria - WorldAtlas.com  Sep 2, 2016 ... The city is situated on four main islands namely, Lagos, Victoria, Iddo, and Ikoyi which are all connected by a network of bridges. Lagos is a financial, ... Abuja is a relatively modern city and was built in the 1980's. The city is an...
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Most Populated Cities In Nigeria 2016 - Politics (2) - Nigeria  ... with a population of over 3.5 Million, and the country's largest metropolis by ... Funny, is as good as saying Nigeria is d giant of Africa on paper but ... Oyo population is relatively spread across Ibadan, Oyo, Ogbomosho and what have you. ... After Lagos, Ibadan is second most developed city in south west.
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Africa and the OAU - ProQuest  ... the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was founded in the Ethiopian capital of ... magnitude of this challenge, during the May, 1963 OAU conference in Addis...
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nigeria Centenary City - Eagle Hills - Abu Dhabi  The 12.6 square kilometre site has been designed to work in harmony with nature, ... A city within a city, this smart, inter-connected urban centre is a truly...
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African Capitals - Game One - Sheppard Software  African Capitals , online geography games. ... It is a port on Porto-Novo Lagoon, an arm of the Gulf of Guinea. .... with posh residential and commercial areas, two universities, and sprawling slums ... Asmara was a small village until the 1880s, when it became an Ethiopian ..... Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital in 1991.
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Brazzaville, Congo (1880- ) | The Black Past: Remembered and ...  Brazzaville, the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo, was ... and was named after its part-African founder, explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. ... negotiated a treaty with de Brazza in which he granted the French control over...
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Yoruba people - Wikipedia  Coordinates: 72758N 43358E / 7.466N 4.566E / 7.466; 4.566. The Yoruba or less appropriately: won omo Yorb (Children of Yoruba), are an ethnic group of Southwestern and North .... Today, Lagos (Yorb: k), another major Yoruba city, with a population of over twenty million, remains the largest on...