[size=16pt]Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country?[/size]

Why is Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country? The most common explanation is a long history of sociocultural ties between Sudan and northern Nigeria, where most Nigerians in Sudan are from. Also, northern Nigerians who travel over land for the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia go through Sudan, and many have settled there over the years.

In the 1993 Sudanese census, West Africans, under the label Nigerian tribes, were estimated to be about 1.4 million, or 7.4 percent of northern Sudan's total population. The Hausa in Sudan, who work mainly in agriculture, are believed to be the largest Hausa diaspora in the world. The Fulani among them can be divided into cattle owners and urbanized Fulani, while most of the Kanuri, believed to be among the earliest dwellers, have been fully Arabized.

Nigeria's ambassador to Sudan between 2005 and 2007, Mr. Dahiru Suleiman, was quoted in the Nigerian media as saying that Nigerians hold positions in the Sudanese government and the security services like the police but that most are subsistence farmers, poor and poorly educated.

Recent actions of the Sudanese government suggest concerns about the legal status of these settlers. In March 2010, it was widely reported that Sudan deported 58 Nigerians, all northerners, and most of them women. The Sudanese authority said that some of the deportees had fake/ expired travel documents. However, journalist Ajikanle Nurudeen reported that the deportees were sent home because they were a nuisance to Sudan, as most of the deported women were blind and were beggers.

In recent years, Sudan has become a destination for younger Nigerians for work and study. BBC Sport journalist Oluwashina Okeleji reported that Nigerian footballers play in the Sudanese league to get on the radar of European scouts and hope to ultimately move to Europe.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=788

Somehow this revelation makes me highly uncomfortable!

Sudan hosts more Nigerians than US?

Chei!

Sudan of all places!

Chei chei chei!

Are we going to arrest terrorism in Nigeria soon? hmmmmm.

So, while southern Nigerians are heading to the US and Europe, northern Nigerians are heading to Sudan?

Chineke ekwena ife ojo.

is it Nigerians or Nigeriens

Here's the graph.

Source: Development Research Centre (DRC), Global Migrant Origin Database, 2007.

Onlytruth:


[size=16pt]Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country?[/size]

Why is Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country? The most common explanation is a long history of sociocultural ties between Sudan and northern Nigeria, where most Nigerians in Sudan are from. Also, northern Nigerians who travel over land for the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia go through Sudan, and many have settled there over the years.

In the 1993 Sudanese census, West Africans, under the label Nigerian tribes, were estimated to be about 1.4 million, or 7.4 percent of northern Sudan's total population. The Hausa in Sudan, who work mainly in agriculture, are believed to be the largest Hausa diaspora in the world. The Fulani among them can be divided into cattle owners and urbanized Fulani, while most of the Kanuri, believed to be among the earliest dwellers, have been fully Arabized.

Nigeria's ambassador to Sudan between 2005 and 2007, Mr. Dahiru Suleiman, was quoted in the Nigerian media as saying that Nigerians hold positions in the Sudanese government and the security services like the police but that most are subsistence farmers, poor and poorly educated.

Recent actions of the Sudanese government suggest concerns about the legal status of these settlers. In March 2010, it was widely reported that Sudan deported 58 Nigerians, all northerners, and most of them women. The Sudanese authority said that some of the deportees had fake/ expired travel documents. However, journalist Ajikanle Nurudeen reported that the deportees were sent home because they were a nuisance to Sudan, as most of the deported women were blind and were beggers.

In recent years, Sudan has become a destination for younger Nigerians for work and study. BBC Sport journalist Oluwashina Okeleji reported that Nigerian footballers play in the Sudanese league to get on the radar of European scouts and hope to ultimately move to Europe.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=788

Onlytruth circulating falsehood again?

FYI, there are up to 3 million Nigerian immigrants in the UK. In fact, Nigeria is the most populous non-UK racial group in UK followed closely by Jamaica.

Go and get your facts right man!

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/country-profile/sub-saharan-africa/nigeria?profile=intRelations&pg=4

you people will believe jesus christ was a walrus if someone made a thread about it.


how does nigeria have the 'biggest diaspora in the world' in sudan when there's more chinese people in the US and UK then their are people in Nigeria total .

Onlytruth:

Here's the graph.

Source: Development Research Centre (DRC), Global Migrant Origin Database, 2007.

Still unreliable. And to think that this is a 2007 graph?

It even failed to show that there are more Nigerians in SA than Togo. SA is not even represented!!!!

Then, a lot of Nigerians in Sudan would not have gotten their by visas or say legally, so how did they track the numbers? Dem get winch

Once again OnlyTruth has proven what we've always known about him: He's a purveyor of false hoods!!!

Good going, mor*on. . . . !

^^^^^

Can you be positive in your comments for at least once without resorting to insults? The info. has a source which you could look up.

This people are not Nigerians, these people have settled in Sudan even b4 Nigeria had her independence. The hausa's/ Fulanis have been known to travel far & wide especially in d Sahel & desert regions. There are Hausas/fulanis tribes from Mauritania in western part of Africa to Sudan in d East. These people have made these journey 100's of years ago. Because of d racist policy of Northern Sudan they do not want to give these settlers who  have being in Sudan from time memorial citizenship in effect making them stateless. How come they are Nigerians & not Niger republic citizen or even Malian how do u seperate one hausa from one these countries from another. If they deport them to Nigeria, Nigeria should deport them back, we should not be accepting deportees whose family has settled in d Sudan 300 or 400 years ago, no wonder there is an increase in Boko Haram activitis & other insurgency in d north.

Posted by: KnowAll

This people are not Nigerians, these people have settled in Sudan even b4 Nigeria had her independence. The hausa's/ Fulanis have been known to travel far & wide especially in d Sahel & desert regions. There are Hausas/fulanis tribes from Mauritania in western part of Africa to Sudan in d East. These people have made these journey 100's of years ago. Because of d racist policy of Northern Sudan they do not want to give these settlers who  have being in Sudan from time memorial citizenship in effect making them stateless. How come they are Nigerians & not Niger republic citizen or even Malian how do u seperate one hausa from one these countries from another. If they deport them to Nigeria, Nigeria should deport them back, we should not be accepting deportees whose family has settled in d Sudan 300 or 400 years ago, no wonder there is an increase in Boko Haram activitis & other insurgency in d north.

Smart observation. 

Most of the responders so far are retards. They can't even see the gist of the story.
I don't care where a Nigerian chooses to live in the world, provided they do not bring terrorism to Nigeria.

Sudan is known worldwide for extreme brand of Islam and terrorism.

My worry is that I don't want bombs exploding in Enugu. That's all.

I also found out that most of the northern Nigerians in northern Sudan are farmers.

What happened to farming in northern Nigeria?

Why go all the way to Sudan to farm?

Can't they farm in Nigeria?

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X-factoria:

Onlytruth circulating falsehood again?

FYI, there are up to 3 million Nigerian immigrants in the UK. In fact, Nigeria is the most populous non-UK racial group in UK followed closely by Jamaica.

Go and get your facts right man!

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/country-profile/sub-saharan-africa/nigeria?profile=intRelations&pg=4

Nigerians in the U.K are less than 700,000.

X-factoria:

Onlytruth circulating falsehood again?

FYI, there are up to 3 million Nigerian immigrants in the UK. In fact, Nigeria is the most populous non-UK racial group in UK followed closely by Jamaica.

Go and get your facts right man!

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/country-profile/sub-saharan-africa/nigeria?profile=intRelations&pg=4

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Andre Uweh:

Nigerians in the U.K are less than 700,000.

presido1:

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i have always had this feeling that that there are up a million yorubas(let alone other nigerians) in london

tpia*:

they must be nigeriens, not nigerians.

This Nigerian/Nigerien wahala, I think one of these countries should change their adjectival form.
Maybe Niger should be Nigerese while Nigeria remains Nigerian. Just saying because they are inadvertently increasing the population of the North.

Note: Nigerian and Nigerien are pronounced exactly the same by the English.

Andre Uweh:

Nigerians in the U.K are less than 700,000.

What about the United States?

asha 80:


i have always had this feeling that that there are up a million yorubas(let alone other nigerians) in london

The figures released by The U.K statistics in 2006 put Nigerians in the U.K at approx 600,000.

Attached is the exact information from the website referenced by X-factoria, and he went ahead to conclude that Nigerians in UK are 3m.
I wonder why Nigerians are sometimes incapable of telling themselves the simple truth.

Since when did "estimate" equal "accurate"?

And he is quick to accuse innocent folks of lying.

Isn't spinning the worst form of lying?

EzeUche_:

What about the United States?

Ndigbo about 200,000.
Yorubas about 80,000.
Hausa and Fulani about 20,000.
Ijaw about 10,000.
This figures are mere rough estimates.

@Andre Uweh: where did you get ur figures?

^^^Which kain question be that? If 99.9% of his posts are shiotted out, which lower location in his body could also perform that function?


@post
Oru eyan wo ni eyin this people, nitori Olorun?
And how is this "revelation" exactly  a problem? Why cant some people live their life and let others live.


Sudan of all places? And Nigeria is heaven. .  .  .

Andre Uweh:

Ndigbo about 200,000.
Yorubas about 80,000.
Hausa and Fulani about 20,000.
Ijaw about 10,000.
This figures are mere rough estimates.

What?  I bet there're that many Nigerians in the SE city where I live!

Ok no prob. where's the link? I couldnt find it.

Supposedly 80K Nigerians in the Houston area alone, as of 2003 (http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2003/November/20031121162843yeroc9.750003e-02.html).

Tack on Los Angeles, Dallas, DC Metro area, NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, and I wouldn't be surprised if the pop were north of 500k.

are we talking about nigerians who have not got the blue passport or those are those guys with blue passport included?

asha 80:

are we talking about nigerians who have not got the blue passport or those are those guys with blue passport included?

What do you mean?


Talking about legal residents plus people with ordinary work authorization and student visas

fstranger1:

What do you mean?


Talking about legal residents plus people with ordinary work authorization and student visas

i have an uncle that moved there in 1983 and he and his wife are now american citizens and carry the american passport.will americans governmnent view them as nigerians or americans?

asha 80:

i have an uncle that moved there in 1983 and he and his wife are now american citizens and carry the american passport.will americans governmnent view them as nigerians or americans?

Americans 100%


Except in Naija, where they might be considered Nigerians if they ve not renounced their Nigerian citizenship.

America allows Dual citizenship.

Well, i claim US citizen and I still have my Green passport.

Ileke-IdI:

^^^Which kain question be that? If 99.9% of his posts are shiotted out, which lower location in his body could also perform that function?


@post
Oru eyan wo ni eyin this people, nitori Olorun?
And how is this "revelation" exactly a problem? Why cant some people live their life and let others live.


Sudan of all places? And Nigeria is heaven. . . .

Stop your silly behaviour here. My post claimed a rough estimate of figures. No point displaying stupidity over that.