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The Nigerian economy is a huge one.
I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
My dad's Nigerian and I grew up in London, and that's just how it is.
I am, always have been, and always will be proud of my Nigerian heritage.
I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
Nigerian footballers who have played in Russia improved their ability here.
I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
My Nigerian colleagues gave me a good impression of the Premiership and I am glad to be here.
I'm proud of being a Nigerian international and am always committed to playing for my country.
Outside of Peruvian rap-rock, few genre tags raise eyebrows quite like the words 'Nigerian disco.'
I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down.
I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.
My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be in life.
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
I say all the time that when you first meet me, you know three things right off the bat: I'm Nigerian, I love to laugh, and I love Jesus.
I have two boys with Nigerian heritage and that's the most important thing but race shouldn't define you. You just have to have a thick skin.
'419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.
I feel so British, but people would look at me and see a very African woman - the way I cook is very Nigerian, the way I dress I guess is quite Nigerian.
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just through my everyday life.
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.
The thing that the Nigerian government will do is to secure the environment. If the environment is not secured, then unfortunately, the investments wouldn't be coming in.
So, we know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I still believe that is the good thing about Nigerian players. We can always spring up so many surprises.
Coach Amodu without question is a colossus and football icon and has over the years made meaningful contribution to Nigerian football both at club and international levels.
I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.
I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.
If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.
My mom, my aunts, and all the Nigerian women in my life have been so fierce and strong. I have only grown up around powerful women, so I have a strong sense of self and our power.
Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.
I knew I was Yoruba and Nigerian for the first 9 years of my life. I did not become conscious of my color and all that came with it until I moved to the United States with my family.
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.
Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.
My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.
I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, 'So you want to be a jester?' And I was like, 'I don't want to be a court jester, Ma. I want to be a comedian.'
Find me someone who is Nigerian who is always on time for things that aren't work-related, and I will find you a Tyrese quote that makes perfect sense. They might exist, but they sure are rare.