Nigerian Ethnic and Political Groups

Last modified: 2000-01-07 by jonathan dixon
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• The Ogoni People
• The Yoruba People
• The Hausa People
• Obasanjo Party
• Northern Elements Progressive Union

• Nigeria

The Ogoni People

Saw this on an international affairs program. Not sure if it is a political flag, or a flag of a people.

Ogoni people of Nigeria, they call their part Ogoniland. Blue-Gold-Green tricolour, 6 5-pointed red stars.

The flag is the one of the MOSOP, which so much as I remember means the MOvement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. I saw a report in 1995 on Australian TV, and the stars are all in the red middle band in a circle, all normal (like Cape Verde Islands).
Pascal Monney, 23 Feb 1999

I don't know about the number and position of the stars, but the three colours can be seen on the homepage of the Mosop-Canada. The gold seems to be close to 255-204-0, the blue to 0-102-153, whereas the green is somewhere between 0-102-51, 0-153-0 and 0-153-51...
Thanh-Tâm Lê, 24 Feb 1999

I believe that the Yoruba national Flag is blue with a white circle near the hoist and within, a golden emblem
Jaume Olle

I found a totally different Yoruba flag at the Egbe Omo Yoruba site ("National Association of Yoruba Descendents in North America")
Thanh-Tâm Lê, 27 Feb 1999

Hausa is a language group consisting of 10-15 million people primaril in Northern Nigeria and Niger.
Michael Smuda, 2 Mar 1999

At this site a Hausa flag or something-like-a-flag.
Gvido

The flag shown at that URL is a LOB with the emblem of the Hausas, that was official in a green flag (within a white circle) and yellow cross fimbriated white from 12-12-1958 to 1963 as a Northern Region flag, probably later adopted by the Hausa people (or at least an organization). The emblem is named Northern Knot and was used in the Nigerian national flag for some months in 1963 (until October) as the North Nigeria regional flag. After October 1963 only the national Nigerian flag was in use.
Jaume Ollé, 5 Mar 1999

I saw a party flag from Nigeria, horizontal equal stripes green-white-red. Does anybody know which party this is, and whether it has any ethnic basis? Apparently it was used at a pro-Obasanjo meeting.
Thanh-Tâm Lê, 27 Feb 1999

I see the logo of the Obasanjo party. There's the quotes colors but in the form of an umbrella and below it three black letters (PDN?)
Jaume Ollé, 28 Feb 1999

Yes! I could not see it in detail, but it looks like another flag I on the same image. Both a plain triband VWR andone with some emblem were used, and actually there was a design with three letters. It was too vague to report, but obviously we are referring to the same flag.
Thanh-Tâm Lê, 5 Mar 1999

Smith pp. 304-341 ("Symbols in Politics") says that these are real flags and not only party emblems which may differ in colours when used as emblem or in a flag:
Northern Elements Progressive Union (Nigeria): Horizontal blue-yellow-green with a yellow star in the lower fly.
Ivan Sache, 6 Aug 1999