In Nigerian politics, there has long been an informal understanding: presidential appointments should carefully balance the ...

particularly in the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria: Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. In the Yoruba cultural values, greetings and respect is a notable culture automatically earned by older people.

In this article, we explore Nigeria’s ethnic diversity, listing the ethnic groups within each state.

Nigeria is a deeply divided state in which major political issues are contested along complex ethnic, religious and regional divisions. Three major identity-group cleavages exist in Nigeria.

Nigeria inherited a colonial legacy that divided its multi-ethnic population into regions often polarised by ethnicity and religion. The three major ethnic groups- Hausa in the North, Yoruba in ...

We should encourage peaceful co-existence among the different tribes in Nigeria," Jimoh said. "We should stop seeing ourselves as Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba," he said, referring to the three main ethnic ...

The forum which is a socio-political group embracing the three ethnic tribes of Calabar said ... social and economic landscape of Nigeria, most communities are striving for political relevance ...

The first phase saw the beginning of the quest for political dominance and superiority by the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria – Yoruba, “Hausa-Fulani”, and Igbo. All three groups ...

Muslim Hausa and Fulani are the predominant ethnic groups in Nigeria’s northern region. Though the groups originated in different parts of West Africa, religion, intermarriage and adoption of ...