Jane Odiwe

Apa Kororofa: The Nupe Origins Of The Igala

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Olivia Temple,¹ Professor E.O. Erim,² Akpenpuun Dzurgba,³ and other have related that the Igala traditions maintain that the Igala people originated from a prehistoric kingdom of Apa. But, Ambassador Solomon Adama Yisa wrote that Apa was an ancient Nupe kingdom located in Nupeland.⁴ Apa was known to Nupe historians as Epa.⁵ Alhaji Saidu Ibrahim Madaki … Read more

Top 10 Oldest Tribes In Nigeria

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Some years back before 1500, many of modern Nigeria settlement’s was divided into states identified with contemporary ethnic groups names. These early states included the Nupe Kingdom, Igala Kingdom, Kanem-Borno Empire, Igbo Kingdom of Nri , Benin Kingdom, Oyo Empire the Yoruba city-states including the Kingdom of Ife, and the Hausa States. Numerous small states … Read more

50 Happy Easter Wishes For Only Your Mother/Mum

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Here we help you with List of 50 happy Easter wishes for only your mother during this Happy Easter celebration. This easter text messages is only for your beloved mother, we also have a list of happy Easter text sms for your Husband during Easter celebration or your wife as well as for your pastor. … Read more

Rich Nupe Lagosians Of The 19th Century

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Nupe People In the 1860s many of the most powerful and richest people in Lagos were Nupe people. These included Shitta Bey, James Macaulay Babington, Madam Tinubu, Balogun Ali, the Oshodi family, the Aguda families, the Saros families, and others. ALSO SEE: The History Of The Nupe People Interestingly all of these Nupe Lagosians visited … Read more

The Music Etymology And Terminology

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Greek mythology’s nine Muses served as models for various artistic pursuits, including the arts, and later developed a tight relationship with music in particular. In the 1630s, the word “music” as we know it today first appeared. Its predecessors include the Old English “musike” of the mid-13th century, the Old French music of the 12th … Read more

THERE WAS NO OYO EMPIRE By Ndagi Abdullahi

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It was British historians like Professor Robin Law, swayed by Reverend Samuel Johnson’s pretentious History of the Yorubas, who invented the claim that by the 1690s Oyo had become the greatest Empire in pre-Colonial Nigeria.¹ But all the earliest writers on Yoruba, including the Danmasanin Katsina² and Sultan Bello in the 1830s,³ never mention any … Read more

Top 100 Musicians You Need To Know From Northern Nigeria

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Below are the list of 100 Musicians/artistes from North-Central, North-West and North-East. 1. Aboki Chick 2. Abel Ugada 3. Adams Mayy 4. BOC Madaki 5. Badman Binladin 6. Babwiz 7. Beejay Danjuma 8. Black House 9. Blackshyne 10. BlaQ Dee 11. BossBoy 12. Berry Bankz 13. BNP 14. Budicious AOne 15. Classiq 16. Chizo 17. … Read more

50 Happy Easter Messages For Only Your Pastor

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Here we listed out top 50 Happy Easter messages for only your pastor. This sms is use only during Easter celebration. If you are looking for which Happy Easter text messages you want to wishes your pastor, you are on the right place. This text sms is only for your pastor, I believe If you … Read more

The First Naibi In Nupe Land

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LATE MALLAM MUHAMMADU JIMADA(FIRST NAIBI NUPE)(1882 -1949)BRIEF PROFILE, LIFE, HUMANITARIAN ACTVITIES AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE EARLY DEVELOMENT OF EDUCATION IN NUPELAND AND NORTHERN NIGERIA Late Mallam Muhammadu Jimada Naibi was born in 1882 to the family of Mallam Muhammadu Shafii Alfa Chado who was a Chief Judge of Bida Emirate and the same time, … Read more

The Articulation Of Witchcraft & Modes Of Production Among The Nupe

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Articulation Of Nupe Witchcraft Abstract The political economy of occult belief in Africa can highlight hidden social and political conflict in times of transition which remain otherwise undetected. This has been demonstrated in taking the development of witchcraft accusations over time as indicator, and the Nupe of Northern Nigeria as an example. A tentative long-term … Read more