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Nigerian transition to democracy (1998–1999)
The Nigerian transition to democracy was the 1998–1999 program under General Abdulsalami Abubakar that restored elected civilian rule after Abacha's death, beginning the Fourth Republic on May 29, 1999.
Nigerian women's writing movement
The Nigerian women's writing movement is the tradition of fiction, poetry, and drama by Nigerian women, usually dated from Flora Nwapa's 1966 novel Efuru, the first internationally published English novel by a female African writer.
Nigerian Youth Movement
The Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) was a nationalist political organization founded in Lagos in 1934 as the Lagos Youth Movement, becoming the first pan-Nigerian nationalist movement.
Nigerians
Nigerians: citizens of Nigeria and people of Nigerian ancestry, a civic nationality of 250+ ethnic groups (Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo largest), about 237 million people, half Muslim and half Christian, with a 15-17 million diaspora sending $25 billion in remittances (2019).
Nigericin
Nigericin is a polyether antibiotic produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus, first isolated in 1951, that exchanges K+ for H+ across membranes and serves as a canonical NLRP3 inflammasome activator.
Nigersaurus
Nigersaurus taqueti, a rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation of Niger, named by Sereno in 1999; known for over 500 ground-grazing teeth replaced about every 14 days.
Nigga
Nigga, a non-rhotic alteration of the slur nigger, is used mainly among African Americans as a familiar address term but is extremely offensive from outsiders; research questions its reappropriation as endearment.
Niggas in Paris
Niggas in Paris (Nias in Paris): 2011 Jay-Z and Kanye West song from Watch the Throne, produced by Hit-Boy; US Hot 100 number 5, UK peak 10, 2013 Grammy Best Rap Performance, famously played 12 times straight in Paris.
Niggaz4Life
Niggaz4Life (Efil4zaggin) is N.W.A's second and final studio album, released May 28, 1991; it topped the Billboard 200, went platinum, and triggered British obscenity seizures before the group disbanded.
Nigger
Nigger is an English racial slur for Black people, derived via French nègre and Spanish negro from Latin niger; Merriam-Webster calls it the most offensive racial slur in English, distinct from the reclaimed in-group form "nigga."
Nigger (dog)
Nigger was Guy Gibson's male black Labrador retriever and mascot of RAF 617 Squadron, killed by a car on the morning of the 1943 Dambusters raid; his name served as the Morse codeword confirming the Möhne dam breach, and his grave and name later became subjects of commemoration controversy.
Nigger in the woodpile
Nigger in the woodpile (also nigger in the fence) is a dated, offensive American idiom meaning a hidden motive, snag, or something suspicious; attested by 1800 (OED) or the 1840s, tied to Underground Railroad accounts and the 1860 Currier & Ives cartoon.
Night
Night is the period when the Sun is below the horizon and a location receives no direct sunlight, in alternation with day as the Earth rotates.
Night Always Comes
Night Always Comes (2025) is a Netflix crime thriller directed by Benjamin Caron, adapted by Sarah Conradt from Willy Vlautin's 2021 novel. Vanessa Kirby plays Lynette, raising $25,000 in one Portland night to stop her family's eviction; released August 15, 2025, 108 minutes, rated R.
Night and Fog (1956 film)
Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) is Alain Resnais's 32-minute 1956 French documentary on the Nazi concentration camps, alternating color footage of Auschwitz and Majdanek with archival images, with commentary by Jean Cayrol and music by Hanns Eisler.
Night and Fog (天水围的夜与雾) (2009 film)
Night and Fog (天水圍的夜與霧) is Ann Hui's 2009 Hong Kong drama, second of her Tin Shui Wai diptych after The Way We Are, starring Simon Yam and Zhang Jingchu, adapted from the real 2004 Tin Yat Estate family massacre.
Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧)
Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧, Nihon no yoru to kiri) is Nagisa Oshima's 1960 Shochiku color drama about student radicals at a wedding, halted by the studio days after its 9 October 1960 release, prompting Oshima's break with the studio system.
Night and the City
Night and the City (1950) is a Jules Dassin film noir starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney, adapted from Gerald Kersh's novel, shot on London locations for Fox, with distinct 95-minute American and 101-minute British cuts and different scores.
Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum (2006), also known by Milan Trenc's 1993 picture book title The Night at the Museum, is a Shawn Levy fantasy comedy starring Ben Stiller as night guard Larry Daley at New York's Museum of Natural History, where an Egyptian curse animates the exhibits; it spawned sequels in 2009, 2014, and 2022.
Night at the Museum (franchise)
Night at the Museum is a fantasy comedy franchise based on Milan Trenc's children's book, in which museum exhibits come to life via an Egyptian tablet. Three Shawn Levy films (2006, 2009, 2014) star Ben Stiller as night guard Larry Daley, plus a 2022 animated film and a planned reimagining.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is the 2009 sequel to Night at the Museum, directed by Shawn Levy, starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, and Hank Azaria as Kahmunrah; it was the first film shot inside the Smithsonian.
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again is a 2022 2D-animated Disney+ film, the fourth in the franchise, following Nick Daley (Joshua Bassett) as night watchman against the pharaoh Kahmunrah.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a 2014 American fantasy comedy film, the third in the series, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller.
Night Attack at Târgoviște
The Night Attack at Târgoviște (Atacul de noapte de la Târgoviște) was a June 1462 night assault by Vlad III Țepeș on Sultan Mehmed II's camp.
Night baseball
Night baseball, also Midnight Baseball or No Peek Baseball, is a home poker variant: No Peek flipping with threes and nines wild and extra cards for fours, 2-6 players. Also refers to baseball played under lights, first MLB night game May 24, 1935.
Night Call (film)
Night Call (La nuit se traîne) is a 2024 Belgian-French action thriller, Michiel Blanchart's debut feature, starring Jonathan Feltre as a Brussels locksmith hunted by mob boss Romain Duris over one night amid BLM protests; Rome Jury Grand Prix and Magritte winner.
Night Changes
Night Changes is a 2014 ballad by One Direction, the second and final single from the album Four, written by the five members with Jamie Scott, Julian Bunetta, and John Ryan; it peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the band's last single featuring Zayn Malik.
Night Comes
Night Comes (2026) is a horror survival thriller and the feature directorial debut of actor Jay Hernandez, starring Dafne Keen and Samantha Lorraine as sisters hiding from nocturnal creatures called Screechers after civilizations vanish.
Night Court
Night Court is an NBC sitcom (1984–1992, 193 episodes) created by Barney Miller veteran Reinhold Weege about Judge Harry T. Stone's zany Manhattan night court, starring Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, and Richard Moll; revived 2023 with Melissa Rauch, cancelled 2025.
Night Court (2023 TV series)
Night Court (2023) is an NBC sitcom revival of the 1984–1992 series, developed by Melissa Rauch, Dan Rubin, and John Larroquette, starring Rauch as Abby Stone and Larroquette as Dan Fielding, premiering January 17, 2023.