<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"><title>The people of Nigeria (page 2)</title> <style type="text/CSS"> .buttonscontainer {width: 80px;} .buttons a {color: #000000; border: 1px solid; background-color: #CCFFFF; padding: 2px; padding-left: 3px; font: 13px Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-color: #33FFCC #CC9900 #CC9900 #33FFCC; display: block; margin: 0px; width: 100%; text-align: left;} .buttons a:hover {border: 1px solid; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-right: 1px; background-color: #99FFCC; border-color: #CC9900 #33FFCC #33FFCC #CC9900; color: #9933CC; text-decoration: none;} </style> </head> <body> <div class="buttons"><a href="page1.html">Home page</a> <a href="page2.html">Ibo people</a> <a href="page3.html">Yoruba people</a> <a href="page4.html">Hausa people</a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="page5.html">Religion</a> <a href="page6.html">Economic</a> <a href="page7.html">National Anthem</a> <a href="page8.html">Coat of Arms</a> </div> <h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 204);">The people of Nigeria</h2> <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">More than 250 ethnic tribes call present-day <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Nigeria home.Nigeria has 36 states and capital.&nbsp; The most popular among the innumerable ethnic groups in </st1:country-region></st1:place></span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> are Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Yoruba people mostly occupy the southern parts on </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">. The Ibo group stays in the south eastern states of </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">. The Hausa-Fulani stays in the northern </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">Other smaller groups include the Fulani, Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv, and <st1:place w:st="on">Edo</st1:place>. The federal Capital of Nigeria is located in Abuja, middle belt of Nigeria.Prior to their conquest by Europeans, these ethnic groups had separate and independent histories. Their grouping together into a single entity known as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region></st1:place> was a construct of their British colonizers. However the unity among the Nigerian people, in spite of being ethnically diverse, is definitely something unique.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> <span lang="EN">The name <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region></st1:place> was suggested by British journalist Flora Shaw in the 1890s. She referred to the area as <st1:country-region w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region>, after the <st1:place w:st="on">Niger River</st1:place>, which dominates much of the country's landscape. The word <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i>niger</i></st1:country-region></st1:place><i> </i>is Latin for black. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span> <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img style="width: 250px; height: 210px;" alt="ibo men dressing" src="igbo%20men%20dressing.jpg"></p> <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 204);"><span style="font-family: Batang;">Traditional dressing of an Ibo men (South East Nigeria) &nbsp;</span><br style="font-family: Batang;"> <a href="index.html"><br> </a></p> </body></html>