The Ọwọrọ ethnic nationality represents a group of people around the Niger-Benue confluence speaking a Yoruba dialect called Oworo. They are generally classified as part of Northeast Yoruba (NEY) of the Yoruba people.[1]
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The Ọwọrọ ethnic nationality represents a group of people around the Niger-Benue confluence speaking a Yoruba dialect called Oworo. They are generally...
culturally related Owé, Ìyàgbà, Addé, Gbẹdẹ, Bùnú or Abunu, Ikiri, and Òwòròpeoples, who together are said to make up 20% of the Kogi State population,...
Oworo (Aworo) is a dialect of Yoruba spoken mainly in Oworo District of Lokoja LGA, Kogi State Nigeria. It is close to the Abinu (Bunu), Ikiri, Owe, Yagba...
and Benue rivers and is the capital city of Kogi State. While the Yoruba (Oworo), Bassa Nge and Nupe are indigenous to the area, other ethnic groups of...
Lokoja L.G.A., Bassa-Komo which is also of Bassa Local government area, Oworopeople (A Yoruba Group), Igbo, Ogori Magongo, and Idoma. The name Nigeria, was...
is inhabited by the Oworopeople who speak a dialect of Yoruba also called Oworo. Agbaja was the administrative capital of Oworo district during the colonial...
The Yoruba people (/ˈjɒrʊbə/ YORR-uub-ə; Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts...
formerly dominant Ile-Ife kingdom are largely oral. The history of the Yoruba people begins in Ile-Ife(Ife Empire). This kingdom was founded by the deity Oduduwa...
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...
The Ibarapa are a Yoruba people group located in the Southwestern corner of Oyo State. The name of the group is derived from a local cultivar of the melon...
The Egba people are a subgroup of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group of western Nigeria, a majority of whom are from the central part of Ogun State that...
native speakers. Over 500 languages are spoken among its about 230 million people. This is a result of the number of existing ethnic groups. Some of the popular...
Aghakpo, Leleji, Ofaran, Okeodo, Adeyanba. These villages were all founded by people from Usen and speak the same dialect of the Yoruba language. There are also...
The Ekiti people are one of the largest historical subgroups of the larger Yoruba people of West Africa, located in Nigeria. They are classified as a Central...
minded who celebrate wickedness, injustice, and immorality and unrighteous people, Èṣù Láàlù is evil and devilish, whilst Láaróyè Ajọ́ńgọ́lọ̀ Ọkùnrin Òde...
religion, Haitian Vodou, West African Vodun, and the folk religion of the Gbe people. In Yoruba religion, Ogun is a primordial orisha in Yoruba Land. In some...
sometimes spelt Ica, and Itcha are a relatively small group of the Yoruba people, situated in the western parts of middle Benin, West Africa, especially...
The Ẹgbado, now Yewa, are a subgroup of the Yoruba people and inhabit the eastern area of Ogun West Senatorial District, Ogun State, in south-west Nigeria...
Longest Road in Oworonshoki is Oworo road. The present king of oworonshoki is Oba Saliu Babatunde (Oloworo 2) Some notable people from Oworonshoki are - Hermes...
The Ana people, also known as the Atakpame people, are an ethnic group of Benin and Togo. The Ana are concentrated between Atakpame, primarily in the...
Ohori (sometimes called Ije) or Ọ̀họ̀rí-Ìjè are a subgroup of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The local domain of the Ohori is South-eastern Benin north...
leader of the Yoruba people, now saddled with the responsibility of making supplications to God and the Òrìṣà on behalf of his people and the world at large...
the Oodua Peoples Congress, a nationalist organisation based in Nigeria which supports an autonomous state for the Yoruba people. Oodua Peoples Congress...
This is a list of notable Yoruba people. Adebayo Salami (b. 1953), Nigerian actor, filmmaker, movie producer and director Aderounmu Adejumoke Adunni Ade...
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