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THE BASSA NGE NUPE PEOPLE by Áma Ndagi Abdullahi The Bassa Nge people are a Nupe people through and through , Any discussion on the origin or history of the Bassa Nge people must start on this premise , namely , that they left Central KinNupe as a Nupe people relatively not long ago . … Read more
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
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
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
Years back On December 23, 1985, the Vatsa family had just concluded plans to travel to Calabar because, usually, they spent the yuletide in the Cross River State capital, ( Sufiya is Efik Tribe ), the Id-el-Fitri in Minna, Niger State ( General Vatsa is Nupe Tribe ) and the Id-el Kabir in Kaduna. [ … Read more
Here we listed 40 List Of Happy Easter Best Text Messages on this special day for Christian’s to celebrate Easter with their friends, family members, coworkers, boss, relatives and also for people in relationship and marriage. List Of 40 List Of Happy Easter Best Text Messages 1. On this special day, may you experience the … Read more
It’s very good to give your loved ones sweet names and it emphasizes how important they are to you. Giving a loved one a sweet nickname is also one of the ways to show how much love you have for the person. Some of these nicknames sound silly, while some are becoming outdated, so one … Read more
Introduction We begin by stating that apart from the non-availability of source materials incapacitation the zeal of some indigenous historians in the writing of Nigerian experience in the pre-colonial period, the history of Nupe expansionist exploit into Esan with its Socio-Political impact has been one of such neglected themes in Nigeria history today. Another fact … Read more
NUPE PEOPLE; NIGERIA`S FAMOUS BEADS MAKING PEOPLE IN AFRICA. The Nupe people are called different names by various tribes in Nigeria, the Yoruba people refer to them as Tapa/Takpa, the Hausas call them Nufawa (Plural) or Banufe (Singular). The neighbouring Gbagyi people (Gwari/Gbari) refer to them as Anupeyi. The Nupe people refer themselves as Nupenchizhi … Read more
NUPE TIMELINE 1700 BC – Egyptian pharaoh visited KinNupe with a contingent of 700,000 people. 1400 BC – Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Great engaged the service of Nupe witchdoctors and wizards. 800 BC – The Nupe practiced Nok culture which spread from Central KinNupe to the Jos Plateau. 600 BC – Cambyses I, the king … Read more