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Benin City

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Benin City is the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria. [1]

71 relations: Abel Guobadia, Alan Maxwell Boisragon, Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Anthony Anenih, Anthony Enahoro, Arik Air, Auntie Maria School, Benin Airport, Benin Bronzes, Benin Expedition of 1897, Benson Idahosa, Benson Idahosa University, Brass, Chris Oyakhilome, Christian, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Dmitri Bondarenko, Edo College, Edo language, Edo State, Edoid languages, Federal Government Girls College, Benin City, Felix Idubor, Festus Ezeli, Festus Iyayi, Francis Edo-Osagie, Gabriel Igbinedion, Godwin Abbe, Golden State Warriors, Harry Rawson, Igbinedion University, Igodomigodo, Igue festival, Iron, Ivory, Jacob U. Egharevba, John Edokpolo, Köppen climate classification, Kingdom of Benin, Lagos, Lisbon, List of Nigerian cities by population, List of Portuguese monarchs, List of the Ogiso, Loanword, Mid-Western Region, Nigeria, Missionary, Modupe Ozolua, Museum, Natural rubber, ..., Niger Coast Protectorate, Nigeria, Oba of Benin, Osayuki Godwin Oshodin, Palm oil, Pidgin, Portugal, Portuguese language, Rough Guides, Samuel Ogbemudia, Social Evolution & History, Sonny Okosun, Southern Nigeria Protectorate, States of Nigeria, The New Yorker, Tropical savanna climate, University of Benin (Nigeria), University Preparatory Secondary School, Victor Uwaifo, Western State (Nigeria), World Festival of Black Arts. Expand index (21 more) »

Abel Guobadia

Sir Abel Guobadia OFR (June 28, 1932 – February 4, 2011) was an educator, administrator, diplomat and retired public servant.

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Alan Maxwell Boisragon

Alan Maxwell Boisragon (22 January 1860 – 18 March 1922) was a British army officer, and author, and was Captain Superintendent of the Shanghai Municipal Police from 1901-1906.

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Ambrose Folorunsho Alli

Ambrose Folorunsho Alli (22 September 1929 – 22 September 1989) was a Nigerian medical professor who served as Executive Governor of the defunct Nigerian state of Bendel State (now the Nigerian states of Edo and Delta) between 1979 and 1983.

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Anthony Anenih

Anthony Akhakon "Tony" Anenih (born 4 August 1933) is a Nigerian politician who was appointed Minister of Works and Housing in 1999.

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Anthony Enahoro

Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro (22 July 1923 – 15 December 2010) was one of Nigeria's foremost anti-colonial and pro-democracy activists.

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Arik Air

Arik Air is a Nigerian airline operating mainly from two hubs at Murtala Muhammed International Airport near Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

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Auntie Maria School

Auntie Maria School (AMS) is located in Benin City, Nigeria and comprises Auntie Maria Nursery School (Toddler 1 - KG 2); Auntie Maria Primary School (Basics 1 - 5); and Auntie Maria College (JSS 1 - 3 & SSS1 - 3).

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Benin Airport

Benin Airport is an airport serving Benin City, the capital of Edo State in Nigeria.

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Benin Bronzes

The Benin Bronzes are a group of more than a thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin in what is now modern-day Nigeria.

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Benin Expedition of 1897

The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a United Kingdom force of 1,200 under Admiral Sir Harry Rawson in response to the ambush of a previous British-led party under Acting Consul General James Philips (which had left all but two men dead).

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Benson Idahosa

Benson Andrew Idahosa (11 September 1938 – 12 March 1998) affectionately called PAPA or BABA by his followers, was a Charismatic Pentecostal preacher, and founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Edo State.

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Benson Idahosa University

Benson Idahosa University also known as BIU is a private, Christian university in Benin City, Nigeria.

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Brass

Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.

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Chris Oyakhilome

Chris Oyakhilome (also known as "Pastor Chris") (born December 7, 1963) is a Nigerian Christian minister who is the founding president of Believers' Loveworld Incorporated, also known as Christ Embassy, a Bible-based Christian ministry headquartered in Lagos.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Deutscher Wetterdienst

The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Office, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational or agricultural purposes.

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Dmitri Bondarenko

Dmitri Mikhailovich Bondarenko (a; born 1968), is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and africanist.

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Edo College

Edo College is a secondary grammar school in Benin City, Nigeria, the oldest in the Mid-Western Region.

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Edo language

Edo (with diacritics, Ẹ̀dó; also called Bini (Benin)) is a Volta–Niger language spoken primarily in Edo State, Nigeria.

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Edo State

Edo is a state in Nigeria.

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Edoid languages

The Edoid languages are some two-to-three dozen languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State.

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Federal Government Girls College, Benin City

Federal Government Girls College, Benin City (FGGC Benin) is a federal government funded girls institution that prepares young girls for the future.

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Felix Idubor

Felix Idubor (1928–1991) was a Nigerian sculptor from Benin City, an African city with a rich history of artistic excellence.

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Festus Ezeli

Ifeanyi Festus Ezeli-Ndulue (born October 21, 1989) is a Nigerian professional basketball player who is currently a free agent.

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Festus Iyayi

Festus Iyayi (29 September 1947 – 12 November 2013) was a Nigerian writer known for his radical and sometimes tough stance on social and political issues.

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Francis Edo-Osagie

Francis Edo Osagie (1914) was a notable Nigerian businessman from Benin.

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Gabriel Igbinedion

Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion is the Esama of the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria.

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Godwin Abbe

Godwin Osagie Abbe (born January 10, 1949) in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria is a retired Nigerian Army Major General and former Defence Minister of Nigeria from 2009 to 2010.

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Golden State Warriors

The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in the San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, California.

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Harry Rawson

Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson (5 November 1843 – 3 November 1910), is chiefly remembered for overseeing the British Benin Expedition of 1897 that burned and looted the city of the Kingdom of Benin, now in Nigeria.

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Igbinedion University

Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO), the first private university in Nigeria, was established in 1999.

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Igodomigodo

Igodomigodo is the historical first name of the now fallen Benin Empire, as called by its own inhabitants (nowadays known as the Edo people of Nigeria).

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Igue festival

Igue festival is a celebration with its origin in the Benin Empire.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.

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Jacob U. Egharevba

Jacob U. Egharevba (1893–1981) was a Bini historian and traditional chief whose writings specialized in the history of Benin Kingdom.

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John Edokpolo

John Enoyogiere Edokpolo (9 October 1918 -- 17 June 1996) was a Nigerian businessman in the rubber industry and founder of Edokpolo Grammar Schools in Benin City, Nigeria.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kingdom of Benin

The Kingdom of Benin, also known as the Benin Kingdom, was a pre-colonial kingdom in what is now southern Nigeria.

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Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.

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List of Nigerian cities by population

The following are lists of the most populous fully defined incorporated settlements in Nigeria by population.

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List of Portuguese monarchs

The monarchs of Portugal ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution.

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List of the Ogiso

This is a list of the independent Ogisos (Kings) of Igodomigodo, that was to become the Benin Empire, from 355 BC to 1092 AD.

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Mid-Western Region, Nigeria

The Mid-Western Region was a division of Nigeria from 1963 to 1991, from 1976 being known as the Bendel state.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Modupe Ozolua

Modupe Ozolua (born October 10, 1973 in Benin City, Nigeria) is an American-Nigerian philanthropist and entrepreneur, CEO of Body Enhancement limited which pioneered cosmetic surgery in Nigeria in 2001 and aesthetic lasers in 2007.

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Museum

A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

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Natural rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.

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Niger Coast Protectorate

The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year, renamed on 12 May 1893, and merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 1 January 1900 to form the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Oba of Benin

The Oba of Benin is the traditional ruler of the Edo people and all Edoid people and head of the historic Eweka dynasty of the Benin Empire - a West African empire centred on Benin City, in modern-day Nigeria.

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Osayuki Godwin Oshodin

Osayuki Godwin Oshodin (born August 9, 1950) is a former Vice-chancellor of University of Benin.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.

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Pidgin

A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Rough Guides

Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications.

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Samuel Ogbemudia

Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia (17 September 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a Nigerian army officer and politician.

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Social Evolution & History

Social Evolution & History is a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on the development of human societies in the past, present, and future.

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Sonny Okosun

Sonny Okosun (was born on 1 January 1947 – 24 May 2008 in Washington DC).

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Southern Nigeria Protectorate

Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.

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States of Nigeria

A Nigerian State is a federated political entity, which shares sovereignty with the Federal Government of Nigeria, There are 36 States in Nigeria, which are bound together by a federal agreement.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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University of Benin (Nigeria)

The University of Benin - also known as UNIBEN - is one of Nigeria's first generation federal universities.

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University Preparatory Secondary School

University Preparatory Secondary School (UPSS) is a private Secondary School situated in Benin City, Nigeria.

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Victor Uwaifo

Prof.

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Western State (Nigeria)

The former Western State of Nigeria was formed in 1967 when the Western Region was subdivided into the states of Lagos and Western State.

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World Festival of Black Arts

The World Festival of Black Arts (French: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres), also known as FESMAN, is a month-long culture and arts festival that takes place in Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_City

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