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Kogi State

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Kogi, a state in the central region of Nigeria. [1]

103 relations: Adavi, Nigeria, Ajaokuta, All Progressives Congress, Anambra State, Ankpa, Association football, Ayetoro Gbede, Babanawa F.C., Bassa, Kogi State, Benue River, Benue State, Bolton Wanderers F.C., British Empire, Cashew, Cassava, Coal, Cocoa bean, Coffee, Confluence, Crop, Darey, Dekina, Dino Melaye, Ebira people, Edo State, Ekiti State, Enugu State, Faruk Imam Muhammad, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard, Football in England, Forward (association football), Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Halima Abubakar, Handball, House of Representatives (Nigeria), Ibaji, Idah, Idoma people, Igala people, Igalamela-Odolu, Igneous rock, Ijumu, Iron, Isaac Alfa, ISO 3166-2:NG, Joseph Benjamin (actor), Kabba, Kabba/Bunu, Kogi State University, ..., Kogi United F.C., Koton Karfe, Kwara State, Limestone, List of capitals of states of Nigeria, List of Governors of Oyo State, List of Nigerian states by area, List of Nigerian states by date of statehood, List of Nigerian states by GDP, List of Nigerian states by population, List of Nigerian states' nicknames, List of sovereign states, List of state governors of Nigeria, Lokoja, Maize, Melon, Middle Belt, Mopa-Muro, Nasarawa State, Niger River, Niger State, Nigeria, Nupe people, Ofu, Nigeria, Ogidi, Kogi, Ogori/Magongo, Okehi, Okene, Okun people, Olamaboro, Omala, Nigeria, Ondo State, Oworo people, Palm oil, Petroleum, Praiz, Qadi, Rice, Senate of Nigeria, Shola Ameobi, Sprint (running), States of Nigeria, Sunday Bada, Swimming (sport), Table tennis, Tin, Vigna subterranea, West Africa Time, Yagba East, Yagba West, Yahaya Bello, Yam (vegetable), Yoruba people. Expand index (53 more) »

Adavi, Nigeria

Adavi is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria, adjoining Edo State in the south and the state capital Lokoja in the north.

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Ajaokuta

Ajaokuta is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria and a town within it on the left bank of the Niger River.

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All Progressives Congress

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political party in Nigeria, formed on 6 February 2013 in anticipation of the 2015 elections.

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Anambra State

Anambra is a state in southeastern Nigeria.

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Ankpa

Ankpa is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Ayetoro Gbede

Ayetoro Gbede is a town along the Ilorin - Kabba federal highway in Ijumu, a kingdom and local government area in Kogi state, Nigeria.

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Babanawa F.C.

Babanawa FC was a Nigerian National Division One football club, based in Anyigba, Kogi State and play their home games in Lokoja.

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Bassa, Kogi State

Bassa is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Benue River

The Benue River (la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River.

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Benue State

Benue State is one of the middle belt States in Nigeria with a population of about 4,253,641 in 2006 census.

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Bolton Wanderers F.C.

Bolton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Cashew

The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.

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Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.

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Crop

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.

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Darey

Dare Art Alade – popularly known as Darey – is a Nigerian musician, singer-songwriter, and Idol series judge.

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Dekina

Dekina is a local government area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Dino Melaye

Dino Melaye is a Nigerian politician, a Senator and member of the 8th National Assembly, representing Kogi West Senatorial district.

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Ebira people

The Ebira or Egbira people are an ethno-linguistic group of central Nigeria.

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Edo State

Edo is a state in Nigeria.

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Ekiti State

Ekiti is a state in western Nigeria, declared a state on 1st of October 1996 alongside five other states in the country by the military under the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha.

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Enugu State

Enugu, usually referred to as Enugu State to distinguish it from the city of Enugu, is a state in southeastern Nigeria, created in 1991 from part of the old Anambra State.

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Faruk Imam Muhammad

justice Faruk Imam Muhammad (born 15 July 1942 in Bida, Nigeria) was a judge at the Kogi State Judiciary from January 1990 to 2007.

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Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

The Federal Capital Territory, commonly known as FCT, or loosely as FCT-Abuja, is a federal territory in central Nigeria.

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Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard

Flora Louise Shaw, (born 19 December 1852 – 25 January 1929), was a British journalist and writer.

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Football in England

Association football is the most popular sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game.

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Forward (association football)

Forwards are the players on an association football team who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals.

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Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard

Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 – 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, mercenary, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator.

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Halima Abubakar

Halima Abubakar (born 12 June) is a Nigerian actress.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, fieldball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.

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House of Representatives (Nigeria)

The House of Representatives is the lower house of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly.

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Ibaji

Ibaji is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria in the south of the state separated from Edo State to the west by the Niger River, and bordering Delta State in the south.

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Idah

Idah is a town in Kogi State, Nigeria, on the eastern bank of the Niger River in the middle belt region of Nigeria.

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Idoma people

The Idoma are an ethno-linguistic group that primarily inhabit the lower western areas of Benue State, Nigeria, and kindred groups can be found in Cross Rivers State, Enugu State and Nasarawa State in Nigeria.

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Igala people

The Igala are an ethnic group of Nigeria.

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Igalamela-Odolu

Igalamela-Odolu is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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Ijumu

Ijumu is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Iron

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

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Isaac Alfa

Isaac Mohammed Alfa (born 15 September 1950 in Inye, Kogi State, Nigeria) is a retired Nigerian Air Force Air Marshal, former Chief of Air Staff, and Senator from Kogi State.

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ISO 3166-2:NG

ISO 3166-2:NG is the entry for Nigeria in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Joseph Benjamin (actor)

Joseph Benjamin is a Nigerian actor, model, Voice-over Artist and television presenter mainly known for co-hosting MTN's Project Fame, a talent reality show, and starring in the movies Tango With Me, Mr. and Mrs., and Murder at Prime Suites.

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Kabba

Kabba is a town in Kogi State in mid west Nigeria.

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Kabba/Bunu

Kabba/Bunu is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Kogi State University

Kogi State University, located at Anyigba, is the state-owned university of Kogi, Nigeria.

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Kogi United F.C.

Kogi United is a Nigerian football club that play in the second-tier division in Nigerian football, the Nigeria National League.

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Koton Karfe

Koton Karfe is a local government in Kogi State, Nigeria and is located in the northern part of the state.

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Kwara State

Kwara (Ìpínlẹ̀ Kwárà) is a state in Western Nigeria.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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List of capitals of states of Nigeria

The following is a list of Nigerian State capitals.

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List of Governors of Oyo State

This is a list of administrators and Governors of Oyo State, Nigeria.

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List of Nigerian states by area

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their surface area.

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List of Nigerian states by date of statehood

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's states and the dates of their creation.

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List of Nigerian states by GDP

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total GDP in 2010.

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List of Nigerian states by population

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total population based on preliminary 2006 Census figures.

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List of Nigerian states' nicknames

The following table presents a listing of Nigerian states' nicknames.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of state governors of Nigeria

The following table presents a list of Nigeria's state governors.

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Lokoja

Lokoja is a city in Nigeria.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Melon

A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet edible, fleshy fruit.

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Middle Belt

The Middle Belt is a human geographical term designating the region of central Nigeria populated largely by minority ethnic groups and stretching across the country longitudinally.

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Mopa-Muro

Mopa-Muro is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Nasarawa State

Nasarawa is a state in north central Nigeria.

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Niger River

The Niger River is the principal river of West Africa, extending about.

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Niger State

Niger or Niger State is a state in Central Nigeria and the largest state in the country.

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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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Nupe people

The Nupe, traditionally called the Tapa by the neighbouring Yoruba, are an ethnic group located primarily in the Middle Belt and northern Nigeria, and are the dominant group in Niger State, an important minority in Kwara State and present in Kogi State as well.

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Ofu, Nigeria

Ofu is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria, the Niger River forming its western boundary.

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Ogidi, Kogi

Ogidi is a Yoruba town in Kogi State, Nigeria, known for its formations of igneous rock mountains, a traditional art industry, hospitality, valor and a deep tradition of self-reliance.

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Ogori/Magongo

Ogori-Magongo is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Okehi

Okehi is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Okene

Okene is a town in the Nigerian state of Kogi.

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Okun people

Okun Peoples is the term generally used to describe groups of Yoruba speaking communities, who are the Yoruba of Kogi state, North central Nigeria.

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Olamaboro

Olamaboro is a Local Government Area in the southeast of Kogi State, Nigeria, bordering Enugu State and Benue State.

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Omala, Nigeria

Omala is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria bounded in the north by the Benue River.

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Ondo State

Ondo or Ondo State is a state in Nigeria created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State.

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Oworo people

The Ọwọrọ ethnic nationality represents a group of people around the Niger-Benue confluence speaking a Yoruba dialect called Oworo.

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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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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Praiz

Praise Ugbede Adejo (born 8 March 1984), better known by his stage name Praiz, is a Nigerian R&B songwriter, producer and singer.

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Qadi

A qadi (قاضي; also cadi, kadi or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of the Shariʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions, such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and auditing of public works.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Senate of Nigeria

The Senate is the upper house of the Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Nigeria.

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Shola Ameobi

Foluwashola Ameobi (born 12 October 1981) is a Nigerian professional footballer who last played as a striker for English club Notts County.

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Sprint (running)

Sprinting is running over a short distance in a limited period of time.

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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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Sunday Bada

Sunday Bada (22 June 1969 – 12 December 2011) was a Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres event.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Vigna subterranea

Vigna subterranea (also known by its common names: Bambara nut, Bambara-bean, Congo goober, earth pea, ground-bean, or hog-peanut) is a member of the family Fabaceae.

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West Africa Time

West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa; with countries west of Benin instead using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; equivalent to UTC with no offset).

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Yagba East

Yagba East is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Yagba West

Yagba West is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria, in the west of the state adjoining Kwara State.

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Yahaya Bello

Yahaya Bello (born June 18, 1975) is a Nigerian politician, businessman and the current Governor of Kogi State.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.

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Yoruba people

The Yoruba people (name spelled also: Ioruba or Joruba;, lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá, lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin.

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References

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

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