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It is just fitting that several words and expressions which etymology derive from Nigeria, have found their ways into global dictionaries. As at 2020, nearly 30 such inventions had been accommodated by the Oxford Dictionary. They include: okada, tokunbo, gist, k-leg, mama put, danfo, bukateria, chop, eat money, among others. Kannywood, ember months, to put
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It is not uncommon in Nigeria for one ethnic group to make another ethnic group the target of ethnic slurs in form of unfavorable, derisive or disparaging jokes, sayings, or riddles. Lately, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka (WS) has been the target of ethnic slurs, disparaging jokes with denigrative epithets hurled at him by ObidientZombies and some Igbo interpreters of maladies. WS crime was characterization of Labor Party presidential candidate Datti Ahmed’s juvenile tantrums over the results of the 2023 presidential elections as fascism.