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Mensah, Eyo Offiong. "Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin." Journal of Anthropological Research 69, no. 1 (March 2013): 87–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/jar.0521004.0069.105.

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Ezenwamadu, Nkechi Judith, and Chinyere Theodora Ojiakor. "Proverbs and Postproverbial Stance in Selected Plays of Emeka Nwabueze and Zulu Sofola." Matatu 51, no. 2 (September 21, 2020): 432–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05102015.

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Abstract Since the birth of Nigerian literature, writers have produced impressive collection of literature in English. African oral traditions like proverbs have been in use in creative works. Over time, there have been some alterations in proverbs as their usage and meanings slightly assume different dimensions on their seriousness, effects and explicitness of the message therein, forming either an extension to the traditional proverbs or coinages of certain expressions. It is contended that the meaning of proverbs can be interpreted within the semantic, ideational, stimulus-response, realist and contextual theories, as proverbs play significant roles in literary works. This paper anchors on J.L. Austin’s Speech Act Theory and examines the proverb uses and postproverbial reflections with the view to foregrounding their implications in two plays of common thematic preoccupations—Zulu Sofola’s Old Wines are Tasty and Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures. Ultimately, it will highlight the proverbial stance and significance of the texts, thereby ascertaining the proverbial mutations in contexts.
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Owomoyela, Oyekan. "Proverbs and African Modernity: Defining an Ethics of Becoming." Yoruba Studies Review 2, no. 2 (December 21, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v2i2.130132.

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African proverbs have, for good reason, attracted considerable attention from scholars, both African and non-African. One notable testimony to such attention is the international conference in South Africa from which came a monumental collection of scholarly articles now available on CD and in print. Another evidence of the interest the subject has enjoyed among African scholars is the wealth of publications they have produced in recent years, for example, Adeleke Adeeko’s monograph Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature; Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye’s Proverbs in African Orature: The Aniocha-Igbo Experience; Kwesi Yankah’s The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric: A Theory of Proverb Praxis; and my Yoruba Proverbs. In addition, there have been influential articles by Ayo Bamgbose, Lawrence. A. Boadi, Romanus N. Egudu, Kwame Gyekye, Yisa Yusuf, and a host of others whose omission from this rather abbreviated list is not meant as a slight. In a recent conversation, the preeminent paremiologist, Wolfgang Mieder, called my attention to the lineup of articles in the most recent issue of Proverbium [23: 2006], in which four of the five lead articles are by Nigerian scholars (Abimbola Adesoji, Bode Agbaje, George Olusola Ajibade, and Akinola Akintunde Asinyanbola) and on African proverbs, an indication, he said of the present effervescence of, and future potential for, proverb studies and publications on them on African soil. Because of these efforts we now know a good deal about proverbs as a cultural resource, their functionality and the protocols for their usage, but also their artistry-structure, wordplay, imagery, and so forth, especially after calls such as Isidore Okpewho’s (1992) that scholars pay due attention to the aesthetic dimensions of traditional oral forms.
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Borisova, Anna A., and Yulia N. Ebzeeva. "Gastronomic Vocabulary as a Feature of Nigerian English." Russian Journal of Linguistics 23, no. 3 (December 15, 2019): 820–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9182-2019-23-3-820-836.

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The World Englishes Paradigm studies various aspects of the English language characterized by specific peculiarities and changing as a result of contacts with indigenous languages and cultures. The history of English in Nigeria embraces 500 years of an interaction between highly different cultural systems and civilizations. Language contacts between English and the indigenous languages of Nigeria have led to its linguistic, cultural and intrastructural diversity. The aim of this article is to analyse the gastronomic vocabulary of Nigerian English influenced by the Nigerian worldview and culture. The research is focused on borrowings from African languages (mainly Yoruba and Igbo) that play a vital role in forming the culturally important lexicon of Nigerian English. The sources of the research material are dictionaries, as well as books by Nigerian writers composed in English. The analysis carried out in the course of the research allowed us to discover secondary nominations that denote Nigerian flora and cuisine, to reveal their metaphorical usage and to study corresponding figurative comparisons, idioms, proverbs and sayings. The investigation of gastronomic symbols in Nigerian speech shows universal processes of employing common gastronomic lexical units from real-life discourse as a basis for symbolization. The results of the study show that the gastronomic vocabulary and the images it creates constitute one of the most impressive Nigerian cultural codes. The knowledge of this vocabulary is instrumental in understanding those codes.
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Khan, Lubna Akhlaq, Muhammad Safeer Awan, and Aadila Hussain. "Oral cultures and sexism: A comparative analysis of African and Punjabi folklore." Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 26, no. 2 (December 19, 2019): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46521/pjws.026.02.0010.

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The present study embarked with a supposition that there are similarities (traditional, under-developed, agri-based) between the Punjabi and African cultures, so the gender ideology might have similar patterns, which can be verified through the analysis of oral genres of the respective cultures. From Africa, Nigerian (Yoruba) proverbs are selected to be studied in comparison with Punjabi proverbs, while taking insights from Feminist CDA (Lazar 2005). The study has examined how Punjabi and Yoruba proverbs mirror, produce and conserve gendered ideology and patriarchism. Punjabi proverbs are selected through purposive sampling from ‘Our Proverbs’ (Shahbaz 2005) and Yoruba examples (with English translations and interpretations) are elicited from a dictionary of Yoruba proverbs (Owomoyela 2005), as well as articles written about gender by native Yoruba researchers. The investigation has uncovered through thematic content analysis that the portrayal of women in both communities is primarily biased, face-threatening and nullifying. Both languages have presented womenfolk mainly as unreliable, insensible, loquacious, insincere, ungrateful, opportunist, materialistic and troublemaking. Men have been depicted for the most part as aggressive, rational, prevailing, and anxious to take risks. This analysis infers that in asymmetrically organised Punjabi and African (Yoruba) communities, proverbs are deliberately sustaining inequality.
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Korb, Katrina A., Binfa Kelvin Gono, Samuel Adekunle Jinadu, Abangom Ruth John, Gabriel N. Mwoltu, and Rimdan Nanle Oona. "Effect of Instructional Medium on Students’ Performance: A Comparison of Reading and Oral Instruction in Nigeria." Makerere Journal of Higher Education 7, no. 2 (May 13, 2016): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/majohe.v7i2.7.

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Nigeria has a rich oral tradition. In the pre-literate Nigerian culture, knowledge and wisdom were shared through the oral methods of proverbs and storytelling. However, in modern formal education, knowledge is communicated largely through text. The purpose of this paper was to compare students’ performance based on these instructional mediums. Two studies using a between-subjects experimental design were conducted among Nigerian university students. Both studies included two conditions: lecture (oral) and reading (text). In both conditions, the same content was presented. In the reading condition, students read the content as an article whereas in the lecture condition, students listened to the content as a lecture. Post-test examination performance was then compared. Both experiments found that reading resulted in considerably higher academic performance than lecturing.Keywords: Instructional medium; Curriculum innovation; Teaching and learning
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Aliyu, Chika Umar. "National Seminar on Muslims and Islamic Scholarship in Twentieth Century Nigeria." American Journal of Islam and Society 12, no. 1 (April 1, 1995): 137–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v12i1.2401.

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This seminar was organized by the Center for Islamic Studies (CIS),Usmanu Danfodiyo University (UDU), Sokoto, Nigeria. Many importantpersonalities and academics of merit attended. The main theme wasdivided into seven subthemes: Islamic scholarship in modem Nigeria, intellectualcontributions of notable Muslim scholars, Muslim relationswith non-Muslims, Muslim religious groups and national unity, the influenceof foreign Muslims on Muslims in Nigeria, contemporary innovation(bidah) and the challenge of Islam, and Muslims and religiouspractices.Twenty-two papers were presented. During the opening ceremony,speeches were made by Zayyanu Abdullahi (vice-chancellor of UsmanuDanfodiyo University) and Sambo W. Junaid (director, Center of IslamicStudies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University). The paper by Colonel YakubuMu’azu (governor of Sokoto State) was delivered by his representative,Muhammad Lawa Maude (commissioner for works, housing, and environment).The representative of Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki (sultan of Sokoto)Magajin Rafi of Sokoto also attended the opening ceremony.In the first session, M. G. Maitafsir (Faculty of Education, UDU) presented“Islamic Scholarship in Nigeria Today: A Way Forward.” He discussedthe problem facing Islamic scholarship and offered solutions. BelloD. Bada (Department of Modem European Languages, UDU), speakingon “The Role of Hausa Proverbs in the Propagation of Islam in Nigeria,”explained how some Hausa proverbs containing codes of “do’s” and“don’t’s” similar to Islam help to establish the Islamic faith and practices.Habib al Hassan (Translation Bureau UNESCO, UDU), in his “TheKnowledge of HisLsb and Its Teachers in Hausaland (1900-1914),” pointedout that many Nigerian scholars specialize in this area. In a similar paper,“How Hisab is Performed in Hausaland (1900-1914),” he showed throughfigures and illustrations how mathematics is mixed with magic to find certainhidden facts and to perform certain good or bad actions ...
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Ayinuola, Ojo Akinleye. "Linguistic Representations of Postproverbial Expressions among Selected Yoruba Speakers." Matatu 51, no. 2 (September 21, 2020): 311–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05102007.

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Abstract Extant studies have investigated postproverbial expressions from sociological, feminist, and philosophical perspectives with insufficient attention paid to the linguistic representations of social identity in such expressions. This study, therefore, examines how social identities are constructed through postproverbials among Yoruba youths with a view to exploring the social realities that conditioned the representations of new identities in such expressions. The study adopts Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics and Tajfel and Tuner’s Social Identity Theory as framework. Ten (10) postproverbial expressions, which are from anonymous and the written collections of Yoruba proverbs by Yoruba scholars form the data. Linguistic substitutions and code-mixings characterise such expressions. Postproverbials are a conveyor of rationalist, religious, hedonistic, and economic identities, which are conditioned by western influence and are transported by the generation of conscious Yoruba youths. The paper inferred that, though proverbs and postproverbials are context-dependent, postproverbials explicate a paradigm shift in the postmodernist discourse and refract Nigerian socio-cultural realities.
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Ibrahim, Binta Fatima. "The appropriation of linguistic forms for better cognitive comprehension of the Nigerian pragmatic literature." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 56, no. 2 (August 13, 2010): 119–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.56.2.02ibr.

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The propensity of the English language to absorb native nuances by the African writers should be seen as a worthwhile stylistic device, despite the position of English language. Its adaptability to natural flavours should therefore be aimed at the writers’ intention to reach a wider audience. This also means that the attempt by writers to decolorize through literature the polluted African culture god through the use of appropriate notions and local nuances. The technique has, however, been to put on record traditional ways of life, the peoples’ customs, communal activities such as festivals, ceremonies, rituals, myths, folktales, proverbs, music, dance, songs, etc. in order to remind the African reader about the importance of these crucial aspects of the tradition in addition to the appropriation of language use. Hence most African writings can be said to have their foundations in the cultural heritage of their various groups. through the use of what one may call technically implanted African English, African coinages, direct translation, proverbs, local idioms transfers of mother tongues, local insertions/ect. Hence it is not enough to use the sociological and residual approaches to literature. The formalist and pragmatic approaches should also be considered paramount in the writing of African literature. For the choice of diction, narrative technique and the entire pragma-aesthetic implications of the African man’s speech is important to the reader of African literature, if he is to understand the theme
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Olajide, Wale. "Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Thought: Policy Considerations for Nigeria." Yoruba Studies Review 3, no. 1 (December 21, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v3i1.129923.

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This essay interrogates what can be described as Yorùbá population philosophy, within the context of Yorùbá existential thought, and the effects it has on Nigeria’s population explosion. The essay explores the seemingly contradictory proverbs that both vindicate and vilify the act of giving birth to many children. The essay further connects this traditional Yorùbá wisdom to contemporary procreative practices of Yorùbá Christians and Muslims, and their interpretations of scriptural injunction to be fruitful and multiply. I then argue that if Nigeria’s lackluster policy on population is taken into consideration, the implications of the Yorùbá, as well as other ethnic groups’, population philosophy will not only aggravate the Nigerian postcolonial predicament, but will eventually explode the population time bomb already ticking in Nigeria. The essay recommends that given the existential complexities attached to giving birth to a child, together with the demographic exigencies on Nigeria’s national predicament, marriage ought to be strictly regulated and limited to those with the capacity for sustainability.
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Books on the topic "Nigerian Proverbs"

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1961-, Kuni Jonathan Sabo, ed. Nigerian proverbs. Takum [Nigeria]: Jidu Publishers, 1997.

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Okpara, Fredrick Amobi. Handbook of Nigerian proverbs: Meanings & their usages. Lagos, Nigeria: Fredams Communications Nigeria Ltd., 1997.

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African proverbs from Yorubaland. [Nigeria]: Francis Heritage Publishers, 2018.

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Akporobaro, F. B. O. Nigerian proverbs: Meanings and relevance today. Lagos: Dept. of Culture, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, 1994.

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Nwaogwugwu, Josiah N. One hundred and twenty-five African parables & wise sayings: A handbook of wisdom and moral ethics. Louisville, KY: Chicago Spectrum Press, 1998.

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1950-, Oseni Z. I., ed. Afenmai proverbs. Edo State, Nigeria: Darun-Nur, 2003.

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Nwagboso, John A. 250 adages and proverbs in Nigeria. Ibadan, [Nigeria]: Jamea Ventures, 2010.

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Wisdom of the elders: Joy of Nigerian proverbs. Ibadan: Stirling-Horden Pub., 2007.

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Wole, Soyinka, ed. Index of subjects, proverbs, and themes in the writings of Wole Soyinka. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

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Pachociński, Ryszard. Proverbs of Africa: Human nature in the Nigerian oral tradition ; an exposition and analysis of 2,600 proverbs from 64 peoples. St. Paul, Minn: Professors World Peace Academy, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Nigerian Proverbs"

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Ashipu, K. B. C. "The Translation of African Proverbs into European Languages:." In Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages, 567–76. M and J Grand Orbit Communications, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r1h7.48.

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Fábùnmi, Felix Abídèmí. "The Syntax of Auxiliaries in the Yorùbá Proverbs." In Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages, 761–72. M and J Grand Orbit Communications, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r1h7.65.

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Abubakar, Sani. "The Didactic Dimension of Proverbs:." In Literature, Integration and Harmony in Northern Nigeria, 127–40. Kwara State University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgc60xr.14.

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Odeh, Lemuel Ekedegwa. "The Place of Proverbs amongst the Otukpo of North Central Nigeria." In Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress, 77–92. Langaa RPCIG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1rcf2gh.7.

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Ayodele, Johnson Oluwole, and Jane Roli Adebusuyi. "One Space for Two Justice Praxes in Nigeria." In Minding the Gap Between Restorative Justice, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Global Indigenous Wisdom, 24–55. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4112-1.ch002.

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The Yoruba people have unwritten normative, proverb-driven traditional jurisprudence to resolve all emerging disputes. Regrettably, colonialism suddenly emerged to compel the Yoruba people to drop their restorative treatment of the primary justice stakeholders and replace it with the castigatory European justice paradigm. This chapter studies the inclusive character of the traditional justice system of the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. It collected secondary data from the internet and archival sources. Data analysis indicates that including the victims, offenders, and the community in conflict management enhances the Yoruba traditional conflict resolution skills. To creatively halt the miscarriage of justice in postcolonial Yorubaland, policymakers should transform the justice systems to ground solutions for disputes in local realities. Also, both justice systems should replace competition with cooptation and embrace a symbiotic restorative response to dispute resolution for the deepening of Yoruba jurisprudence.
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Cichocki, Piotr. "Etnofikcja radiowa jako metoda badań społecznych aspektów głosu w Malawi." In Wymiary antropologicznego poznawania Afryki. Szkice z badań ostatnich, 223–40. University of Warsaw Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323556183.pp.223-240.

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The article discusses the methodology behind Other voices, other votes. Ethnographic radio play, which was co-produced by the author and non-professional Malawian actors. Their collaboration drew from the ethnofiction method formulated by French-Nigerien anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch. The radio play examines the understanding of fieldwork as a collective process whose outcomes are significant to all contributors. Its first part, a monologue of Martin Kaphukusi, proves that cultural reflexivity is not restricted to professional researchers. The second part, a comment on the elections in Malawi, is a critical juxtaposition of local perspectives and voices.
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Conference papers on the topic "Nigerian Proverbs"

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Sanusi, Sherif, Adenike Omisore, Eyituoyo Blankson, Chinedu Anyanwu, and Obehi Eremiokhale. "Estimation of Bottom Hole Pressure in Electrical Submersible Pump Wells using Machine Learning Technique." In SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207122-ms.

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Abstract With the growing importance and application of Machine Learning in various complex operations in the Oil and Gas Industry, this study focuses on the implementation of data analytics for estimating and/or validating bottom-hole pressure (BHP) of Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) wells. Depending on the placement of the ESP in the wellbore and fluid gravity of the well fluid, there can be little or no difference between BHP and Pump intake Pressure (PIP); hence these two parameters were used interchangeably. The study focuses majorly on validating PIP when there are concerns with downhole gauge readings. It also has application in estimating PIP when the gauge readings are not available, provided the relevant ESP parameters are obtainable. ESP wells generally have gauges that operate on "Comms-on-Power" principle i.e. downhole communication is via the power cable and loss of signal occurs when there is no good electrical integrity along the electrical path of the ESP system. For proper hydrocarbon accounting and statutory requirements, it is important to have downhole pressure readings on a continuous basis, however this cannot be guaranteed throughout the life cycle of the well. Therefore, an alternative method is essential and had to be sought. In this study, the Response Surface Modelling (RSM) was first used to generate a model relating the ESP parameters acquired real-time to the PIP values. The model was fine-tuned with a Supervised Machine Learning algorithm: Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The performance of the algorithms was then validated using the R-Square and Mean Square Error values. The result proves that Machine Learning can be used to estimate PIP in a well without recourse to incurring additional cost of deploying new downhole gauges for acquisition of well and reservoir data.
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Toluse, Williams, Victor Okolo, and Amarquaye Martey. "Production Optimization in a Marginal Field through Established Reservoir Management Techniques – A Case Study." In SPE/AAPG Africa Energy and Technology Conference. SPE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/afrc-2568647-ms.

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ABSTRACT The Federal Government of Nigeria in a bid to promote indigenous companies participation in the oil and gas sector, and to grow the nation’s production capacity passed legislation in 1999 to foster the exploitation of Marginal Oil Fields (MOFs). MOF is one that is considered non – commercial as a result of strategic business development philosophy of the operator, often times large oil companies. Reservoir management is central to the effective exploitation of any hydrocarbon asset; this dependence is heightened for an undeveloped marginal field. There is no ‘one-size fits all’ approach to reservoir management; this paper reviews some techniques adopted by Midwestern Oil and Gas Ltd in the development of the Umusadege marginal field. These techniques fall under three categories: (I) subsurface study (II) well placement and spacing, (III) integrated surface production and optimization, in accordance with regulatory practices. The previously acquired 3-D seismic data was reprocessed and interpretation of reservoir heterogeneities within the Umusadege field concessionary boundary carried out form the basis of the initial field development plan. To optimize reservoir drainage, the general principles of non-interference well spacing were employed, and advanced well placement technology was deployed to guarantee optimum well placement within the reservoir for effective and efficient drainage. Subsequently, 14 vertical wells and 4 horizontal wells were drilled to effectively optimize recovery from the field. Prior to bringing these wells on-stream, clean-up and Maximum Efficiency Rate (MER) tests were conducted to determine the optimum choke settings, GOR and water cut limits for all wells. An integrated approach encompassing choke sizing, gas and water production management, vessel and line sizing were implemented on the Umusadege field to maintain and optimize recovery. Crude custody transfer measurements and export were enabled by an optimized Group Gathering Facility (GGF).The above techniques combining new technologies, traditional reservoir and production strategies led to the successful development of the Umusadege field; increasing daily oil production from 2,000 bbls/d from the first well re-entry to approximately 30,000 bbls/day over a 7-year period. This case study proves that with the correct implementation of the key elements of reservoir management the value of any hydrocarbon asset can be maximized in a cost effective, safe and environmentally friendly manner.
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