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Ogũ
Egun
Total population
811.000
Regions with significant populations
Nigeria, Benin
Languages
Gun, French
Religion
Christianity, Islam, Vodun[citation needed]
Related ethnic groups
Pha Phlera, Yoruba, Fon, Ewe , Adja
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The Gun people, also rendered Ogũ, Ogun and Egun, is an ethnic group principally found in Lagos and Ogun State regions of southwestern Nigeria, and Ouémé Department in the southeast of the Republic of Benin, who speak the Gun language. The Ogu account for about 15% of the indigenous population of Lagos State[1] and 6% of the total population of the Republic of Benin.

  1. ^ Segun Olatunji (27 December 2013). "Egun people blame underdevelopment on minority status". The Punch. Retrieved 13 August 2015.

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Ogu people

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The Gun people, also rendered Ogũ, Ogun and Egun, is an ethnic group principally found in Lagos and Ogun State regions of southwestern Nigeria, and Ouémé...

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Ogu

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Zangbeto are the traditional voodoo guardians of the night among the Ogu (or Egun) people of Benin, Togo, and Nigeria. A traditional police and security institution...

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Badagry

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resettlement for displaced peoples of varied ethnic groups mostly Ogu people, Ewe people and Oyo Yorubas. Another source links the people living at a settlement...

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Gun language

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gungbe) is a language in the Gbe languages group. It is spoken by the Ogu people in Benin, as well as in south-western Nigeria. Gun is part of the Fon...

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Babatunde Olatunji

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near Badagry, Lagos State, in southwestern Nigeria. A member of the Ogu people, Olatunji was introduced to traditional African music at an early age...

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Ogus

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Ogus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Ogus, English legal scholar Arthur Ogus, American mathematician Lionel Blair, born...

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Ogu na Ofo

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Lagos State

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ethnic groups, primarily the majority Yoruba people that live throughout the state but also the Ewe and Ogu peoples in the far west. As a result of migration...

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John Ogu

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Yoruba people

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Lionel Blair

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Lionel Blair (born Henry Lionel Ogus; 12 December 1928 – 4 November 2021) was a Canadian-born British actor, choreographer, tap dancer, and television...

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Igbo language

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voice under a broader definition (8) Ógù Ogu a-vó-ọ-la PREF-be.open-SUFF-PRF Ógù a-vó-ọ-la Ogu PREF-be.open-SUFF-PRF 'Ogu has become disgraced.' Unknown glossing...

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List of Indigenous peoples of Rivers State

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Engenni Etche Gokana Ibani Ikwerre Kalabari Khana Ndoni Nkoroo Ndoki Ogba Ogu Egbema Okrika Saro "Nigeria: Administrative Division". City Population. Retrieved...

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Arthur Ogus

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Arthur Edward Ogus is an American mathematician. His research is in algebraic geometry; he has served as chair of the mathematics department at the University...

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Beninese nationality law

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people; Porto Novo of the Ogu people and Kétu of the Yoruba people, which were tributary kingdoms of the Oyo Empire; and Borgu of the Bariba people....

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Mmanwu

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Bright Joseph Egemasi Ogu

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Bright Joseph Egemasi Ogu was an Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Ogu was educated at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria. He was Bishop of Mbaise from...

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Anthony Ogus

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Anthony Ian Ogus CBE FBA is an emeritus professor of law at the University of Manchester and the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a pre-eminent scholar...

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Igboland

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Atlantic Ocean Bight of Benin Nsukka Obolo Abakaleke Igrita Elele Ahoada Aba Ogu Ihiala Okigwe Oka Onicha Owerre Obiaruku Agbor Niger River Ugwu Ọcha Atakpa...

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Ohafia War Dance

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The Ohafia War Dance // (Igbo: ikpirikpi ogu) is a popular war dance performed in several parts of Eastern Nigeria. The dance which has its roots from...

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Ruslan Akhmadullin

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Eleme people

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bounded in the north by Obio Akpor and Oyigbo, in the South by Okrika and Ogu Bolo, in the east by Tai and the West by Okrika and Port Harcourt. In early...

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Moushumi Chatterjee

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and Basu Chatterjee's Manzil (1979). Her Bengali film with Uttam Kumar, Ogu Bodhu Sundari, released in 1981 and became successful. In 1982, she did the...

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Okrika

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constituted the Okrika Kingdom before 1913, these towns are Kirike, Ogoloma, Ogu, Bolo, Ogbogbo, Ibaka, Ele, Isaka and Abuloma. Most of these traditional...

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Isuikwuato

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Nkuma), Umuebere Aja, Umuama, Ekebe, Obodo, Umusoo, Umuokogbuo, Umuerem, Ndi Ogu, Umuezeoka, Umuihe (formerly, Umu Ohu) and Igidi-Inyim Umuasua Ozara Otampa...

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