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3 unusual facts about Igbo-Ora


Boy Scouts of Nigeria

There is a national community development project at Igbo-Ora, in Oyo State, which includes fish farming, agriculture and a training center for Scouts from all over the country.

Cândido Godói

This phenomenon of a large number of twin births is not unique to Cândido Godói, and has also been observed in the town of Igbo-Ora in Nigeria and the village of Kodinji in India.

Igbo-Ora

This phenomenon of a large number of twin births is not unique to Igbo-Ora; it has also been observed in the town of Kodinji in India and Cândido Godói in Brasil.


Abba Kyari

During the outbreak of violence against the Igbo people in Northern and Central Nigeria in 1966, Abba Kyari assisted Igbo soldiers in escaping from Kaduna, including Major Samuel Ogbemudia, who later was appointed Governor of Mid-West State in September 1967 following the state's liberation from secessionist Biafran forces.

Aro Confederacy

This migration, the influence of their god Ibini Ukpabi through priests, and their military power supported by their alliances with several related neighboring Igbo and eastern Cross River militarized states (particularly Ohafia, Abam, Abiriba, Afikpo, Ekoi, etc.), quickly established the Aro Confederacy as a regional economic power.

Arochukwu

This migration, influence of their god Ibini Ukpabi through priests, and their military power backed up by alliances with several related neighboring Igbo and eastern Cross River militarized states (particularly Ohafia, Abam, Abiriba, Afikpo, Ekoi, etc.) quickly established the Aro Confederacy as a regional economic power.

Asaba, Delta

The composition of Asaba is mainly of Igbo people, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw, Hausa, and Yoruba people.

Aspilia

Mbaise and most Igbo speaking parts of Nigeria to prevent conception suggesting potential contraceptive and anti-fertility properties.

Bida

Bida is not only occupied by northerners, it is also a place with vast tribes like Igbo, yoruba, Hausa, igala, Urhobo, Calabar and other tribes inclusive.

Bube language

The first Bube-to-English primer was authored in 1875 by William Barleycorn, a colonial era Primitive Methodist missionary of Igbo and Fernandino descent, while he was serving in the Bubi village of Basupu.

Caste system in Africa

The Osu caste system in Nigeria and southern Cameroon, can be traced back to an indigenous religious belief system, practiced within the Igbo nation.

Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

With the birth of record companies like Ora Nelle Records, Delmark Records and Chess Records, Maxwell Street became the epicenter for the blues and numerous Maxwell Street artists wrote songs that were later were taken by major rock & roll acts like Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin, which is detailed extensively in the film.

Daniel O. Fagunwa

Fagunwa's later works include Igbo Olodumare (The Forest of God, 1949), Ireke Onibudo (1949), Irinkerindo ninu Igbo Elegbeje (Expedition to the Mount of Thought, 1954), and Adiitu Olodumare (1961).

Demographics of Nigeria

Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo are the most widely used native Nigerian languages.

Fabio Campana

"Ora divina" (Divine Hour) – Paul Austin Kelly (tenor), Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano), David Harper (piano) on Il Salotto Vol 9: Ora Divina (Opera Rara)

First Nigerian Republic

The Northern People's Party (NPC) represented the interests of the predominantly Hausa/Fulani Northern Region, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) (later renamed to "National Council of Nigerian Citizens") represented the predominantly Igbo Eastern Region, and the Action Group (AG) dominated the Yoruba Western Region.

Grigora I Ora Perase

Grigora I Ora Perase (The Time Passed Quickly) is an album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki and it was released in 2006.

History of the Jews in Nigeria

Igbo oral legends also state that certain Nri families may be descendants of Levitical priests who migrated from North Africa.

Igbo Landing

Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation, wrote one of the only contemporary accounts of the incident which states that as soon as the Igbo landed on St. Simons Island they took to the swamp, committing suicide by walking into Dunbar Creek.

Igbo people in Jamaica

Originating primarily from what was known as the Bight of Biafra on the West African coast, Igbo people were taken in relatively high numbers to Jamaica as slaves.

Ike Ekweremadu

Ike Ekweremadu was born in 1962 at Amachara Mpu in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, and is of Igbo origin.

Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi

On the 14 January 1966, Soldiers of mostly Igbo extraction led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, an Igbo from Okpanam near Asaba, present day Delta state, eradicated the uppermost echelon of politicians from the Northern and Western provinces.This and other factors effectively led to the Fall of the Republican Government.

Kiryat Menachem

It is bordered by Ir Ganim to the south and east, Mount Ora to the west, and the Jerusalem Hills to the north.

Moremi Ajasoro

In a manner that has certain parallels with the biblical stories of Moses, Miriam and Esther, she is then said to have been taken as a slave by the Igbo and, due to her beauty, married their ruler as his anointed queen.

Napoleon Barleycorn

Napoleon Barleycorn, a Primitive Methodist missionary in Spanish Guinea, a Fernandino of Igbo descent, who sent his sons to be educated at Bourne College in Quinton, England.

Nigerian Civil War

The coup, despite its failure, was wrongly perceived as having benefited mostly the Igbo because most of the known coup plotters were Igbo.

Although the area contained many different groups, the three predominant groups were the Igbo, which formed between 60–70% of the population in the southeast; the Hausa-Fulani, which formed about 65% of the peoples in the northern part of the territory; and the Yoruba, which formed about 75% of the population in the southwestern part.

The conflict was the result of economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions mainly between the Hausas of north and the Igbo of the southeast of Nigeria.

Nkem Nwankwo

Born in Nawfia-Awka, a village near the Igbo city of Onitsha in Nigeria, Nwankwo attended University College in Ibadan, gaining a BA in 1962.

Nri-Igbo

Historians have compared the significance of Nri, at its peak, to the religious cities of Rome or Mecca: it was the seat of a powerful and imperial state that influenced much of the territories inhabited by the Igbo of Awka and Onitsha to the east; the Efik, the Ibibio, and the Ijaw to the South; Nsukka and southern Igala to the north; and Asaba, and the Anioma to the west.

Obafemi Awolowo

The remnants of the Action Group fought the national election of 1965 in alliance with the largely Igbo, and south-eastern NCNC.

Odinani

The top four Alusi of the Igbo pantheon are Ala, Igwe, Anyanwu, and Amadioha (or Kamalu); other less important Alusi exist after these, some depending on the community.

Oji River

After the Nigeria - Biafra civil war (in which over 1 million people died, mainly children of the Igbo tribe who were killed by the Nigeria government policy with the help of the British government), the thermal power station was upgraded to 30MW, supplying electricity the immediate area and also some parts of Udi, Achi area.

Open Reporting Application

Open Reporting Application (ORA) is a software product developed by World Programming.

Orji Uzor Kalu

The Njiko Igbo Movement is a non-partisan and apolitical initiative spearheaded by Dr. Kalu to help secure the presidential seat for a Nigerian citizen of Igbo extraction.

Peter Okocha

Peter Eloka Okocha (born February 5, 1952) is a Nigerian Igbo businessman and philanthropist from Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Pray and work

In Christian mysticism, the phrase pray and work (or "pray and labor", in Latin ora et labora) refers to the monastic practice of working and praying, generally associated with its use in the Rule of St. Benedict.

Raffia palm

The raffia palm is important in societies such as that of the Province of Bohol in the Philippines, Kuba of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nso of Cameroon, the Igbo and Ibibio/Annang of southestern, the Urhobo and Ijaw people of Niger delta Nigeria and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria, among several other West African ethnic nations.

Rita Ora discography

! scope="row" "Hot Right Now"
(DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora)

Southeastern Nigeria

Before Nigeria became a country through British colonial government, Southeastern Nigeria was a home to many ethnic groups such as the Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ekoi, etc.

Traditional African religion

These are some of the important centers of religious life: Nri-Igbo, the Point of Sangomar, Ile-Ife, Oyo, Dahomey, Benin City, Ouidah, Nsukka, Akan, Kanem-Bornu, Mali, and Igbo-Ukwu.

Ugwuele

Ugwuele is an Igbo community in Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State in Nigeria which houses a stone age site that provides evidence that humans inhabited the region as far back as 250,000 years ago.

Violante Placido

Placido's other movies include Ora o mai più, by Lucio Pellegrini, Che ne sarà di noi, by Giovanni Veronesi, and Ovunque sei, directed by her father.

Werewoman

In late nineteenth century Asaba, in the Igbo region of what is now Nigeria, witches were often thought to be werewomen, and a close connection was thought to exist between all women and witchcraft.

William D. McElroy

McElroy was born to William D. McElroy and Ora Shipley in Rogers, Texas.

Woolf Fisher

Sir Woolf Fisher (20 May 1912 – 12 January 1975) was an East Tamaki, New Zealand, businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Fisher & Paykel, a major appliance manufacturing company, and the Ra Ora Stud, an important Thoroughbred racehorse breeding operation.

Zachęta

In December 2000 the Polish right-wing politician Witold Tomczak damaged Maurizio Cattelan's sculpture La Nona Ora and prompted the dismissal of then director Anda Rottenberg.

Zacheus Chukwukaelo Obi

In 1951, Raymond Njoku, the president of the Union was made minister for transport, leaving open the leadership of the Igbo State Union.

Zacheus Chukwukaelo Obi, (1896-1993) Eze-onunekwulu-Igbo, (spokesman for the Igbo) was an Igbo leader who was born in Nnewi; he was educated at the C.M.S. school, Nnewi.


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