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Bayelsa State, the Glossary

Bayelsa is a state in the South South region of Nigeria, located in the core of the Niger Delta.^[1]

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A2 highway (Nigeria)

The A2 highway is a federal highway in Nigeria that spans.

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Abureni language

Abureni is a Central Delta language of Nigeria.

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Africa University is a "private, Pan-African and United Methodist-related institution." In 2021 it had over 2,500 students from 31 African countries, of whom 58 percent were women and 24 percent came from outside Zimbabwe.

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Air pollution

Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials.

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Akassa

Akassa, is a settlement at the southernmost tip of Nigeria in Bayelsa State where the Nun River estuary meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Akassa Lighthouse

Akassa Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Akassa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Alfred Diete-Spiff

Alfred Papapreye Diete-Spiff (born 30 July 1942) was the first Military Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria after it was created from part of the old Eastern Region, Nigeria.

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Aliebiri

Aliebiri is a community located in Ekeremor Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Allergy

Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are various conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment.

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Amassoma

Amassoma is a community located in Ogboin North of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Amorphous carbon

Amorphous carbon is free, reactive carbon that has no crystalline structure.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Bayelsa Central senatorial district

Bayelsa Central senatorial district in Bayelsa State, Nigeria covers four local governments of Kolokuma/Opokuma, Southern Ijaw and Yenagoa which is the state capital.

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Bayelsa East senatorial district

Bayelsa East senatorial district in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, covers three local government areas of Brass, Ogbia and Nembe.

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Bayelsa International Airport

Bayelsa International Airport (also known as BIA) is an international airport located at Wilberforce Island, Amassama, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, located at GPS coordinates: 4°57′46″N 6°12′20″E.

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Bayelsa Medical University

Bayelsa Medical University (BMU) is located in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State in Nigeria.

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Bayelsa West senatorial district

Bayelsa West senatorial district in Bayelsa State covers two local governments of Ekeremor and Sagbama.

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Ben Murray-Bruce

Benedict Murray-Bruce (born 18 February 1956) is a Nigerian business magnate and politician.

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Benson Sunday Agadaga

Benson Sunday Agadaga (born On 12 June 1956) is a Nigerian politician and a senator from Bayelsa East Senatorial District.

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Biseni language

Biseni (Buseni) is one of the coastal languages of Nigeria.

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Black-eyed pea

The black-eyed pea or black-eyed bean is a legume grown around the world for its medium-sized, edible bean.

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Brass, Nigeria

Brass is a Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria.

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Bundesliga

The Bundesliga, sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga or 1.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Carbonate

A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.

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Carcinogen

A carcinogen is any agent that promotes the development of cancer.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

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Channels TV

Channels Television is a Nigerian independent 24-hour news and media television channel based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Chimpanzee

The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa.

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Civilian

A civilian is a person who is not a member of an armed force nor a person engaged in hostilities.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Cocoyam

Cocoyam is a common name for more than one tropical root crop and vegetable crop belonging to the Arum family (also known as Aroids and by the family name Araceae) and may refer to.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are a group of starchy banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Dan Etete

Dan Etete (born 26 January 1945) aka Chief Dauzia Loya Etete, was the former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum (1995–1998), under the regime of Gen.

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Daniel Igali

Baraladei Daniel Igali (born February 3, 1974) is a Nigerian-Canadian wrestler.

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Delta State

Delta State is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Bayelsa State and Delta State are states of Nigeria.

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Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

Diepreye Solomon Peter "D.S.P." Alamieyeseigha (16 November 1952 – 10 October 2015) was a Nigerian politician who was Governor of Bayelsa State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005.

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Diezani Alison-Madueke

Diezani K. Agama (born 6 December 1960) is a Nigerian politician who was the first female President of OPEC.

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Douye Diri

Douye Diri (born 4 June 1959) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the governor of Bayelsa State since 2020.

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Ebikibina Ogborodi

Ebikibina John Ogborodi is currently the acting registrar of National Examination Council, NECO, since 3 June 2021 until July 2021.

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Ebinabo Potts-Johnson

Ebinabo Potts-Johnson (born 1988) is a Nigerian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Universe 2007 and has represented her country in the Miss Universe 2007 competition in Mexico City on 28 May.

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Edmund Daukoru

Edmund Maduabebe Daukoru (born 13 October 1943) is a former Nigerian Minister of State for Energy and was Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2006.

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Edumanom Forest Reserve

The roots of Edumanom Forest Reserve trace back to 1970 when it was singled out as one of the proposed Forest Reserves by the Rivers State Government, a compilation encompassing 11 distinct regions.

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Ekeremor

Ekeremor is one of the eight local government areas (LGAs) in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Ekpeye language

Ekpeye is one of many languages spoken in Rivers State.

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Elaeis

Elaeis is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms.

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Engenni language

Engenni (Ẹgẹnẹ) is an Edoid language of Nigeria.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Eniwari

Eniwari is a community located in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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Epie language

Epie (or Epie–Atịsa) is a language spoken in Nigeria by the Epie–Atissa people.

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Ernest Ikoli

Ernest Sissei Ikoli (1893–1960) was a Nigerian politician, nationalist and pioneering journalist.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe

The Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe is a federal government higher education institution located in Ekowe, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Federal University, Otuoke

The Federal University Otuoke is a Federal Government-owned University sited in Otuoke, a town in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria.

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Finidi George

George Finidi (born 15 April 1971), known as Finidi George, is a Nigerian professional football coach and former player who was most recently the head coach of the Nigeria national football team.

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Fiscal federalism

As a subfield of public economics, fiscal federalism is concerned with "understanding which functions and instruments are best centralized and which are best placed in the sphere of decentralized levels of government" (Oates, 1999).

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Forçados River

The Forçados River (originally Forcados) is a channel in the Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria.

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Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) was a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Geopolitical zones of Nigeria

The Federal Republic of Nigeria is divided into six geopolitical zones, commonly just called zones.

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Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015.

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Greenhouse gas emissions

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.

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Hannover 96

Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96, is a German professional football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony.

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Heineken Lokpobiri

Heineken Lokpobiri (born 3 March 1967) is a Nigerian politician who is the minister of state for Petroleum Resources (Oil).

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Henry Seriake Dickson

Henry Seriake Dickson CON (born 28 January 1966) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician.

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House of Representatives (Nigeria)

The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly.

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Human capital flight

Human capital flight is the emigration or immigration of individuals who have received advanced training at home.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Humidity

Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.

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Ijaw languages

The Izon languages, otherwise known as the Ịjọ languages, are the languages spoken by the Izon people in southern Nigeria.

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Ijaw people

The Ijaw people, otherwise known as the Ijo people, are an ethnic group found in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, with significant population clusters in Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers.

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Inch

The inch (symbol: in or pprime) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.

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Isaac Adaka Boro

Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro (10 September 1938 – 9 May 1968), fondly called "Boro", was a Nigerian nationalist and soldier of Ijaw descent.

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Isoko language

Isoko is one of the languages in Delta State spoken by the Isoko people in Isoko South, North and part of Ndokwa East Local Government Areas of Delta State, Southern part of Nigeria in Niger Delta region.

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Izon language

Izon (Ịzọn), also known as (Central–Western) Ijo, Ijaw, Izo and Uzo, is the dominant Ijaw language, spoken by a majority of the Ijaw people of Nigeria.

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Kaiama

Kaiama is a Local Government Area and town in northwestern Kwara State, Nigeria.

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Kemebradikumo Pondei

Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei is a Nigerian professor and the former acting managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission.

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Kolokuma/Opokuma

Kolokuma/Opokuma is a Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Kugbo language

Kugbo is a Central Delta language of Nigeria.

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Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo

Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo (born 5 September 1965) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the deputy governor of Bayelsa State since 2020.

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List of governors of Bayelsa State

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List of nicknames of Nigerian states

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

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List of Nigerian states by area

This table ranks Nigeria's 36 states in order of their surface areas.

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List of Nigerian states by date of statehood

The following table presents a listing of the states of Nigeria, 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 estimated total GDP in 2021 according to a 2022 report by BudgIT.

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List of Nigerian states by Human Development Index

This article presents two lists of Nigerian states by Human Development Index (HDI), including the Federal Capital Territory.

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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 the 2006 Census figures, as well as their 2019 projected populations, which were published by the National Bureau of Statistics.

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List of state capitals of Nigeria

The following is a list of Nigerian state capitals.

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Lumber

Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

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Melford Okilo

Melford Obiene Okilo (30 November 1933 – 5 July 2008) had a long and distinguished career as a politician in Nigeria from the start of independence in 1960 until shortly before his death in 2008.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Moses Cleopas

Moses Cleopas is a Nigerian politician who won Bayelsa Central Senatorial bye-election in 2020.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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Nembe

Nembe is a Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.

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Niger Delta Development Commission

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is a federal government agency established by former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in the year 2000, with the sole mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Niger Delta University

Niger Delta University (NDU) is in Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State in the southern part of Nigeria.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Nnimmo Bassey

Nnimmo Bassey (born 11 June 1958) is a Nigerian architect, environmental activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was executive director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades.

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Noah Sarenren Bazee

Noah Joel Sarenren Bazee (born 21 August 1996) is a German professional footballer who plays as a right winger for club Arminia Bielefeld.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Odi massacre

The Odi massacre was an attack carried out on November 20, 1999, by the Nigerian Armed Forces against the predominantly Ijaw town of Odi in Bayelsa State.

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Odual language

Odual (Onu Odual) is a poorly studied Central Delta language spoken by the Odual community in the Abua–Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State and Ogbia LGA of Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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Ogba language

Ogba (also Olu Ogba, mobu onu Ogbah) is an Igboid language spoken by Ogba people of Nigeria mostly in River State.

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Ogbia

Ogbia is a traditional Kingdom and Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Ogbia language

Ogbia (AgBeya or Abaya) is the most spoken Central Delta language of Nigeria.

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Ogboloma

Ogboloma is a community located in Yenagoa Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Ogobiri

Ogobiri is a community located in Sagbama Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Okodia language

Okodia (Okordia), or Akita, is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria.

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Oloibiri

Oloibiri is a small community in Ogbia LGA located in Bayelsa State, in the eastern Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Oloibiri Oilfield

Oloibiri Oilfield is an onshore oilfield located in Oloibiri in Ogbia LGA of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, and was the first to be discovered in that country.

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Olugbobiri

Olugbobiri is a community located in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Olusegun Obasanjo

Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo (Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́; born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian general and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007.

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Oporoma

Oporoma is a community located in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Oruma language

Oruma is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria.

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Owoye Andrew Azazi

Owoye Andrew Azazi (1 February 1952 – 15 December 2012) was a Nigerian army general who served as National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, was Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of Nigeria, and Chief of Army Staff (COAS).

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Patani, Nigeria

Patani is a Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria.

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Patience Torlowei

Patience Torlowei (born 24 July 1964) is a Nigerian fashion designer.

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Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Petroleum industry in Nigeria

Nigeria is the second largest oil and gas producer in Africa (after Angola).

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Petroleum reservoir

A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.

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Respiratory tract infection

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are infectious diseases involving the lower or upper respiratory tract.

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Rice

Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Rivers State

Rivers State, also known as Rivers, is a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region). Bayelsa State and Rivers State are states of Nigeria.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Benin City in Nigeria.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Bomadi

The Diocese of Bomadi (Dioecesis Bomadiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nigeria.

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Sagbama

Sagbama is a Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Southern part of Nigeria.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Samson Siasia

Samson Siasia (born 14 August 1967) is a Nigerian former professional football striker and the former head coach of the Nigeria national team from 2010 to October 2011.

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Sani Abacha

Sani Abacha ((20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled Nigeria with an iron-fist as the military head of state from 1993 following a palace coup d'état until his sudden death in 1998. Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.

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References

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

Also known as Bayelsa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Bayelsan, NG-BY.

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