Anti-Igbo sentiment

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu's aide, Jubril Gawat, at a protest with someone holding a placard directed against non-indigenes (Igbos) living in Lagos.[1]

Anti-Igbo sentiment (also known as Igbophobia) encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards the Igbo people. The Igbo people make up a majority of the population in South East, Nigeria and part of the populations of the South South and the Middle Belt zones. Igbophobia[2] can be observed in critical and hostile behaviour such as political and religious discrimination as well as violence towards Igbo people.[3][4][5]

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