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Adédèjì is both a surname and a given name of Yoruba origin, meaning "the crown or royalty has become twice". Notable people with the name include: * Adebayo Adedeji (born 1930), Nigerian politician * Yinka Adedeji (born 1985), Nigerian footballer * Adedeji Oshilaja Abdul-Yussuf Adedeji Adeniyi "Deji" Oshilaja (born 16 July 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Burton Albion in EFL League One. Career Cardiff City Born in Bermondsey, Oshilaja joined Cardiff City as a 16- ... (born 1993), English footballer References Given names of Nigerian origin Yoruba given names Yoruba-language surnames Surnames of Nigerian origin {{given name, type=both ...
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Yoruba Language
Yoruba (, ; Yor. '; Ajami: ) is a language spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba speakers is roughly 50 million, plus about 2 million second-language speakers. As a pluricentric language, it is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria and Benin with smaller migrated communities in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. Yoruba vocabulary is also used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé, in the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form of the liturgical Lucumí language and various Afro-American religions of North America. Practitioners of these religions in the Americas no longer speak or understand the Yorùbá language, rather they use remnants of Yorùbá language for singing songs that for them are shrouded in mystery. Usage of a lexicon of Yorùbá words and short phrases during ritual is also common, but they have gone through changes due to th ...
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Adebayo Adedeji
Adebayo Adedeji (21 December 1930 – 25 April 2018) was a Nigerian economist and academic. A full-fledged Professor at the age of 36 years, he was Nigeria's Federal Commissioner for Economic Development & Reconstruction from 1971 to 1975. He was responsible for the economic development and reconstruction of post-civil war Nigeria. In June 1975, he was appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and remained in this position until July 1991. Adedeji wrote the Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 that was adopted by the UN and OAU. On his return to Nigeria, he founded the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS), a non-governmental independent continental non-profit, think-tank dedicated to multi-disciplinary and strategic studies on and for Africa. He received the national honor of Commander of the Federal Republicbr> In December 2010, after turning 80, he retired from public life and spent the last years of his life quietly in h ...
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Yinka Adedeji
Michael Adeyinka Adedeji (born 24 March 1985, in Lagos) is a Nigerian international footballer. He currently plays for Shooting Stars F.C. In 2010, he went on loan to Pyunik F.C. in Yerevan and played in the 2010 Champions League qualifiers against the Serbian champions FK Partizan Belgrade. Presently, Adedeji is an important player in the Shooting Stars F.C. having a great season but only as a loan player. International career Adedeji was on the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship runners-up. He also played for the Nigerian B team in the 2011 WAFU Nations Cup The 2011 WAFU Nations Cup is an international home-based football competition. It was hosted in Nigeria. The competition is organised by the West Africa Football Union (WAFU). All games will be played at Abeokuta and Ijebu Ode. Participants * * .... References 1985 births Yoruba sportspeople Living people Footballers from Lagos Nigerian men's footballers Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Pepsi Footb ...
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Adedeji Oshilaja
Abdul-Yussuf Adedeji Adeniyi "Deji" Oshilaja (born 16 July 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Burton Albion in EFL League One. Career Cardiff City Born in Bermondsey, Oshilaja joined Cardiff City as a 16-year-old, progressing through the academy to sign his first professional contract in April 2012. His professional debut for Cardiff came on 14 August 2012, in a 2–1 defeat to Northampton Town in the Football League Cup. Oshilaja made his second appearance in another cup game in the new year, which also resulted in a 2–1 loss against Macclesfield Town. Despite this, Manager Malky Mackay praised Oshilaja's performance, describing it as "great courage". At the end of the season, Oshilaja was offered a new contract by the club. On 31 October 2013, Oshilaja joined Newport County on a one-month loan. He made his Football League début for Newport on 2 November 2013 versus Fleetwood Town. He scored his first goal for Newport in the 3–0 w ...
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Given Names Of Nigerian Origin
A given is a statement or a condition assumed to be true or known, often to explain or give an example of something; for related topics, see: * Presumption (in law) * Axiom (in formal logic) * Givenness (in discourse) * Conditional probability, usually expressed using the term "given" Given may also refer to: Places * Given, Iran, or Givan, a village in West Azerbaijan, Iran * Given, West Virginia, a settlement in the United States People with the surname * Josiah Given, American judge in the Iowa Supreme Court * Leslie E. Given, American Justice for the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia * Shay Given (born 1976), Irish footballer * Thelma Given (1896–1977), American violinist Other uses * "Given", a song by Seether from ''Karma and Effect'' * ''Given'' (manga), a Japanese boys' love manga series * Given Imaging, an Israeli medical technology company * , the containership ''Given'' from the ''Ever'' group (aka ''Evergreen'') See also * Given name * Givens, a surnam ...
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Yoruba Given Names
The Yoruba people (, , ) are a West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 42 million people in Africa, are a few hundred thousand outside the continent, and bear further representation among members of the African diaspora. The vast majority of the Yoruba population is today within the country of Nigeria, where they make up 21% of the country's population according to CIA estimations, making them one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native or L1 speakers. In Africa, the Yoruba are contiguous with the Yoruboid Itsekiri to the south-east in the northwest Niger Delta, Bariba to the northwest in Benin and Nigeria, the Nupe to the north, and the Ebira to the northeast in central Nigeria. To th ...
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Yoruba-language Surnames
Yoruba (, ; Yor. '; Ajami: ) is a language spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba speakers is roughly 50 million, plus about 2 million second-language speakers. As a pluricentric language, it is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria and Benin with smaller migrated communities in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. Yoruba vocabulary is also used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé, in the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form of the liturgical Lucumí language and various Afro-American religions of North America. Practitioners of these religions in the Americas no longer speak or understand the Yorùbá language, rather they use remnants of Yorùbá language for singing songs that for them are shrouded in mystery. Usage of a lexicon of Yorùbá words and short phrases during ritual is also common, but they have gone through changes due t ...
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