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Nko. Nko is a village in Yakurr Local Government of Cross River State, Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] It is the shortened form of Nkoibolokom. It is one of the five Lokàà-speaking settlements that together with Agoi-Ibami, Agoi-Ekpo, Inyima, Ekpeti, and Assiga make up what is known as Yakurr. The other Lokàà-speaking towns are Idomi, Ugep, Ekori, and ...
Business tycoon. politician. publisher. philanthropist. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola GCFR, also known as M. K. O. Abiola ( // ⓘ; 24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire [a] and an aristocrat of the Egba clan.
Yakö people. The Yakurr (also Yakö and Yakạạ) live in five compact towns in Cross River State (Obono 2001, p. 3), Nigeria. They were formally known as Umor, Ekoli, Ilomi, Nkoibolokom and Yakurr be Ibe. Due to linguistic problems encountered by the early European visitors, the settlements have come to be known by their mispronounced ...
NKo (ߒߞߏ), also spelled N'Ko, is an alphabetic script devised by Solomana Kanté in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Manding languages of West Africa. [1] [2] The term NKo, which means I say in all Manding languages, is also used for the Manding literary standard written in the NKo script. The script has a few similarities to the ...
Leboku. Leboku being a dialectic name for ""Festival" is known to be the annual New Yam Festival of the Yakạạ people because the word is the language of the Yakurr people. It is celebrated in the south-south region of Cross River State, [1] Nigeria. [2] The Leboku New Yam festival is peculiar to the core Yakạạ speaking communities: Ugep ...
Nkɔ. Language codes. ISO 639-3. None ( mis) Glottolog. None. Nkɔ is a Plateau language of Nigeria .
Ibas was born in Nko, Cross River State, South South Nigeria. He enlisted into the Nigerian Defence Academy as a member of 26 Regular Course on 20 June 1979 and was commissioned sub-lieutenant on 1 January 1983. He began his primary education at Nko Primary School, Nko, in 1966 and completed at Big Qua Primary School, Calabar in 1971. He then ...
ISO 639-3. nqo. NKo [a] ( ߒߞߏ) is a standardized unified koiné form of several Manding languages written in the NKo alphabet. It is used in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and some other West African countries, primarily, but not exclusively, in written form, whereas in speech the different varieties of Manding are ...