Nigerian Tribune Nigerian Tribune The Nigerian Tribune is an English-language newspaper published in Ibadan in Nigeria. It was established in 1949 by Obafemi Awolowo and is the oldest surviving private Nigerian newspaper. In the colonial era, the newspaper served as the mouthpiece for Awolowo's populist welfare programmes. It also played an important role in defending the interests of the Yoruba people in a period when different ethnic groups were struggling for ascendancy. From independence in 1960 until the 1990s most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the "Nigerian Tribune", "The Punch", "Vanguard" and the "Guardian" continued to expose public and
Nigerian Americans hat). In the Igbo tradition, the men's cultural attire is "Isiagu" (a patterned shirt), which is worn with trousers and the traditional Igbo men's hat called "Okpu Agwu". The women wear a puffed sleeved blouse, two wrappers and a headwrap. Hausa men wear "barbarigas" or "kaftans" (long flowing gowns) with tall decorated hats. The women wear wrappers and shirts and cover their heads with "hijabs" (veils). Among Nigerian Americans, traditional Nigerian attire remains very popular. However, because the fabric is often hard to acquire outside of Nigeria, traditional attire is not worn on an everyday basis but rather, reserved for