A Nigerian Brazilian ( pt, Nigeriano-brasileiro) is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly
Nigerian
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ancestry, or a Nigerian-born person residing in
Brazil
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.
The over 90,000 Nigerians living illegally in Brazil without proper documentation before 1 February 2019 are to be benefited from amnesty offers by the Brazilian Government. The Nigerian Ambassador to Brazil, Kayode Garrick, made this known to the
News Agency of Nigeria
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(NAN) in
Brasília
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. Garrick, said that over 2,000 Nigerian potential beneficiaries of the Brazilian amnesty proclamation were among the 5,000 Nigerians currently living in the country. In September 2008, the Nigerian government opened the ''Casa da Nigéria'' or "Nigerian Culture House" in the historic
Pelourinho
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neighborhood of
Salvador
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, Bahia, with the support of the governments of Bahia and Brazil.
2011 Polemics on Racist University Professor in the Northeast
A case of
xenophobic
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/
racist
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prejudice of a university professor against a Nigerian student in the Federal University of
Maranhão
Maranhão () is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of . Clockwise from north, it borders on the Atlantic Ocean for 2,243 km and the states of Piauí, Tocantins a ...
shocked the country in mid-2011. Thousands of students subsequently signed a petition calling for the expelling of the professor.
See also
*
Brazil–Nigeria relations
References
Ethnic groups in Brazil
Immi
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