Nigerian people in Italy
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| Total population | |||||||
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| 119,435 (ISTAT: 2021)[1] | |||||||
| Regions with significant populations | |||||||
 Veneto · Emilia-Romagna ·  Lombardy ·  Sicily | |||||||
| Languages | |||||||
| English · Italian · Niger–Congo languages | |||||||
| Religion | |||||||
| Protestantism · Catholic Church · Sunni Islam | |||||||
The presence of Nigerians in Italy dates back to the 1980s.[citation needed]
Numbers
In 2021, there are 119,435 immigrants from Nigeria in Italy. In 2014 in Italy there are 71,158 regular immigrants from Nigeria, while In 2006 there were 37,733. The three cities with most number of Nigerians are: Turin, Rome and Padua.[2] But many Nigerians also reside on the island of Sicily.[3]
Nigerians in Italy
- Awudu Abass
- Destiny Udogie
- Eddy Wata (1974), singer
- Emeka Jude Ugali (1982), footballer
- Stephen Makinwa (1983), footballer
- Osarimen Giulio Ebagua (1986), footballer
- Angelo Ogbonna (1988), footballer
- Victor Osimhen (1998), footballer
- Stefano Okaka (1989), footballer
- Joel Obi (1991), footballer
- Nicolao Dumitru (1991), footballer
- Paola Egonu (1998), volleyball player
- Adeleke Adebowale Julius (1985), IT Engineer
See also
References
Notes
- ^ https://demo.istat.it/app/?i=P03&l=it
- ^ "Comuni Italiani". Comuni (in Italian). 11 January 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
- ^ Horowitz, Jason (22 May 2019). "Palermo Is Again a Migrant City, Shaped Now by Bangladeshis and Nigerians". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
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