[23] Nigeria is composed of various ethnic groups and cultures and the term Nigerian refers to a citizenship-based civic nationality.

[27] Nigerians come from multiple ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds as the founding of Nigeria was the outcome of a colonial creation by the British Empire.

[29] Such as British colonial authority's denouncement and attacks upon polygamy, trial by ordeal, and certain types of sacrifices.

[30] These villages compose members of the ethnicity-related through ancestry as well as strangers who have been assimilated into the ethnicity.

[24] A male elder in the community commonly serves as a village chief or head.

[30] In the large cities of Nigeria, there is a substantial intermingling of Nigerians with foreigners, especially Europeans, Lebanese, and Indians.

[32] Ethnic, religious, and regional disputes and tensions have commonly divided Nigerians on political issues.