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Nigeria: Ogboni society, including its history, structure, rituals and ceremonies; information on membership and the consequences of refusing to join

14 November 2012 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: Consequences for a Yoruba individual who refuses a chieftaincy title; protection available to those who refuse

13 November 2012 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigéria : information sur les conséquences pour un Yorouba qui refuse le titre de chef; la protection offerte aux personnes qui refusent ce titre

13 November 2012 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: Levirate marriage practices among the Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa-Fulani; consequences for a man or woman who refuses to participate in the marriage; availability of state protection (February 2006)

16 March 2006 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: Forced marriage among the Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani; prevalence, consequences for a woman or minor who refuses to participate in the marriage; availability of state protection (February 2006)

3 March 2006 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: Difference, if it exists, between the Yoruba language spoken in the city of Lagos and a "traditional" form of Yoruba; degree to which the difference is of importance; whether it can cause misunderstanding (2004)

29 November 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Bénin : pratique de l'islam chez les Yoroubas, y compris le pouvoir que détient le marabout, le traitement des Yoroubas musulmans qui ont des relations sexuelles et des enfants hors mariage; information sur l'existence de la protection offerte par l'État aux Yoroubas musulmans qui ont été condamnés à mort par le marabout pour avoir enfreint la charia (mars 2004)

10 March 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Benin: The practice of Islam among the Yorubas, including the powers of the "marabout" and the treatment of Muslim Yorubas who have sexual relations or children outside of marriage; whether any state protection is available to Muslim Yorubas who have been sentenced to death by the marabout for having broken Sharia law (March 2004)

10 March 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: Existence among the Yoruba of a ritual done to women to restore the virginity they would have lost prior to marriage; if so, a description and the state protection available to those who refuse to perform this ritual (February 2004)

27 February 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Benin: Tribal and traditional family marks of Yoruba living in the Republic of Benin, details on ceremony including age, meaning of marks, and consequences of refusal to be marked

21 May 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

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