Ijo

[ ee-joh ]

noun

plural Ijos, (especially collectively) Ijo

1. a member of an Indigenous people of the Niger delta in southern Nigeria.
2. the Niger-Congo language of the Ijo.

Example Sentences

Kourani joined the IJO when he was 16 and moved to the United States legally in 2003.

From Washington Post

The court was told he was part of the IJO’s efforts to scout possible vulnerabilities at various sites, including John F. Kennedy International Airport, a military armory in Harlem and the federal building in Lower Manhattan, which houses a day-care center in addition to 7,000 federal employees and 30 agencies.

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The IJO has been linked to international acts of terrorism, including the 2012 suicide bombing attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria that killed six and injured 32.

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Saab then conducted surveillance and intelligence gathering for the IJO of dozens of locations in New York and elsewhere,” including in Washington and Boston, according to court papers.

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“Saab understood that the information he provided to the IJO would be used to calculate the size of a bomb needed to target a particular structure and the ideal location in which to place explosive devices to maximize damage,” according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

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