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I remembered at a point in time, there were lots of threads that hit the front-page about Nigeria’s major ethnic groups and their dialects. I remember that of Edo, Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. However, it ended there. Other ethnic groups were not listed and that trend died. However, it is important to know things like this. For one, speakers and learners of the language can know and learn these things. Other Nigerians and the world at large can understand the internal intricacies of these languages and how they work. Hence, I have decided to revamp this tradition with Nigeria’s minority and less known ethnic groups. I am going to be covering most groups and will appreciate speakers of the language to help make the work easier by opening threads and adding facts, correcting errors and what we have in already opened threads. The Urhobo People as a cultural unit has already been treated by me sometime ago in this thread. However, to recap important points about the Urhobo people as whole, let ...

Former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori will become a free man in December, after spending half of his jail term in prisons in the United Kingdom. Ibori was jailed for money laundering offences by Southwark Crown court in 2012. But it was not clear whether he will immediately return home because legal proceedings concerning the confiscation of his assets worth tens of millions of dollars, were unresolved. They were supposed to have been resolved years ago, but have ground to a halt due to the allegations of police corruption and the prospect of Ibori taking his case to the Court of Appeal. A London court was told on Friday that Ibori would appeal against his conviction on the grounds that British police and lawyers involved in his case were themselves corrupt. Ibori, who as governor of oil-producing Delta State from 1999 to 2007 became one of Nigeria’s richest and most powerful men, is serving a 13-year sentence after pleading guilty in 2012 to 10 counts of fraud and money-...

Gunmen on Thursday kidnapped the Administrative Secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ekiti State, Muslim Omoleke. It was gathered that Omoleke was kidnapped at Iwaraja, a town near Ilesa in Osun State, at about 4pm. The Punch reported that he was abducted and driven away into the forest of Ijesaland, along with his driver and his child. “They later released his child and the driver along with the vehicle and took him away. We have not heard anything since then,” the source added. When contacted, the spokesperson of INEC in Ekiti, Alhaji Taiwo Gbadegesin, confirmed the incident and said security agencies in Ondo, Osun and Ekiti states had been contacted. Gbadegesin said Omoleke had gone on visits to Ondo and Osun States. He added that the abductors had not contacted the family and the commission. Punch

There was panic among officials of Delta State government as Delta state Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa was alleged to have slumped on World Teachers Day celebration last week. The incident which has been shrouded in mysterious have reportedly prevented the governor from appearing in any state function since the incident. Sources disclosed that the alleged fall is unconnected with a strange ailment the governor has been battling ever since he was in the senate. Okowa’s deputy, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro have been delegated to represent the governor in all state functions since the incident which was kept him from the press. An impeccable Government House source who did not want to be named confirmed the report, saying it happened last week before the World Teachers Day ceremony. The governor was billed to attend the ceremony at the Cenotaph but allegedly slumped at his office before he could appear at the ceremony, our source said. The often reliable source further disclosed that immediately t...