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Njoy
Njoy is the name of two unrelated American companies: a stainless steel sex toy manufacturer founded in 2005, and NJOY, an e-vapor company owned by Altria.
Njoya of Bamum
Sultan Ibrahim Njoya (c. 1876–1933) ruled the Bamum kingdom in western Cameroon and invented the Bamum script, before his deposition by the French in 1931.
NJPW Strong
NJPW Strong is New Japan Pro-Wrestling's American brand, launched August 7, 2020 as a weekly NJPW World series with the New Japan Cup USA, home to the Strong Openweight, Tag Team, and Women's Championships, and reorganized in 2023 into STRONG LIVE pay-per-views and STRONG On Demand.
NK Maribor
NK Maribor (Nogometni klub Maribor), the Purples, is a Slovenian football club founded 12 December 1960, record 14 league titles, playing at Ljudski vrt stadium (11,709 seats) in Maribor.
NK Neftisa JSC
NK Neftisa JSC (АО «НК «Нефтиса») is a Russian oil production holding founded in 2008 by Mikhail Gutseriev, uniting more than 20 enterprises across seven regions of Russia.
NK Osijek
NK Osijek, Croatian HNL football club from Slavonia founded 27 February 1947 as Proleter (earlier Udarnik/Slavonija accounts), renamed NK Osijek 1967. Only major trophy the 1999 Croatian Cup; plays at 13,005-seat Opus Arena since 2023; Meszaros-owned since 2016.
NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg, Bosnian football club founded 1948, plays at Pecara Stadium; twice BiH champion (2003/04, 2005/06), three-time BiH Cup winner, 17 European seasons.
NK-33
The NK-33, also known as the NK-43 in its high-altitude version, is a Soviet oxygen-rich staged combustion rocket engine developed by Kuznetsov for the N1 moon rocket.
NK-92
NK-92 (Neukoplast, aNK) is a human natural killer cell line established in 1992 from a lymphoma patient; the only NK cell line in clinical trials, IL-2 dependent, CD16-negative, KIR-deficient, irradiated before infusion.
NK-cell enteropathy
NK-cell enteropathy, also called lymphomatoid gastropathy and now classified as indolent NK-cell lymphoproliferative disorder of the GI tract, is a rare benign NK-cell mucosal lesion mimicking intestinal lymphoma, with indolent course, EBV negativity, and no detectable clonality.
Nkangala District Municipality
Nkangala District Municipality (DC31), a Category C district in Mpumalanga, South Africa, headquartered in Middelburg with six local municipalities; known for consecutive clean audits, an R780m 2025/26 budget, and water delivery challenges.
NKG2D
NKG2D (natural killer group 2 member D, Klrk1) is an activating lectin-like receptor on NK and CD8+ T cells that binds MICA/B and ULBP stress ligands, costimulates TCR signaling, and is targeted in cancer immunotherapy.
NKGB / MGB
The NKGB (People's Commissariat of State Security) and its successor the MGB were the Soviet state security services handling foreign intelligence and counterintelligence from 1941 to 1953.
Nkishi
Nkishi is the Songye term for a ritually empowered wooden power figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, activated by a ritual specialist called an nganga.
Nkisi
An nkisi (plural minkisi) is, in Kongo religion of Central Africa, both a spirit and the physical object, filled with medicines, through which it heals, protects, or punishes.
Nkomati Accord
The Nkomati Accord, formally the Agreement on Non-Aggression and Good Neighbourliness, was a 1984 treaty in which Mozambique and South Africa pledged not to support each other's enemies.
Nkondi
Nkisi nkondi is a carved wooden power figure of the Kongo peoples of Central Africa in which nails and blades are driven to activate a spirit that heals and punishes wrongdoers.
Nkongolo
Nkongolo, also known as Kongolo Mwamba, is the legendary tyrannical first ruler (mulopwe) of the Luba kingdom, whose name means "rainbow" and whose overthrow by his nephew Kalala Ilunga founded the dynasty.
Nkoranza
Nkoranza, also written Nkoransa, was an Akan state of the Brong people in what is now Ghana, founded in the 1720s by Kumase migrants and known for resisting Asante overrule and dominating the kola nut trade.
Nkosazana Daughter
Nkosazana Daughter, real name Nkosazana Nolwazi Kimberly Nzama (born 2000), is a South African amapiano singer-songwriter from Durban; debut album Uthingo Le Nkosazana (2023), hits include Sofa Silahlane and Dali Nguwe. Not the Zuma family member.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South African doctor, anti-apartheid activist and ANC politician; Health, Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs minister 1994-2012; first woman to chair the African Union Commission (2012-2017); lost the 2017 ANC presidency to Ramaphosa; retired from Parliament in 2024.
Nkosi Johnson
Nkosi Johnson (Xolani Nkosi, 1989-2001), South African child born with HIV and AIDS activist; foster son of Gail Johnson, founder with him of Nkosi's Haven, famed for his 2000 Durban AIDS conference speech.
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (God Bless Africa) is an 1897 Xhosa hymn by Enoch Sontonga, ANC anthem since 1925 and defiance song under apartheid, now the first half of South Africa's combined five-language national anthem (1997).
Nkrumahism
Nkrumahism, also called Nkrumaism, is the political ideology of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's independence leader and first head of state, combining socialism, Pan-Africanism, and opposition to economic neocolonialism.
NKVD
NKVD (Народный комиссариат внутренних дел), the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (1917, all-Union 1934; MVD 1946). Led by Yagoda, Yezhov, and Beria; housed state security, GULAG, militia, and border troops, and carried out Stalin's Great Terror before the KGB's creation in 1954.
NKVD Operational Order No. 00447
NKVD Operational Order No. 00447 (Приказ НКВД № 00447) was a secret 1937 NKVD directive signed by Nikolai Yezhov that launched the kulak operation of the Great Terror.
NKVD troikas
The NKVD troikas (Тройки НКВД) were three-member boards of the Soviet NKVD that sentenced people without trial, a main instrument of the 1937 to 1938 Great Terror.
Nkwatako
Nkwatako is a song by Ugandan singer Sheebah Karungi, released in 2015 and made the title track of her 2016 debut album; it won Best Afrobeat Song at the 2016 HiPipo Music Awards.
NKX2-1
NKX2-1 (NK2 homeobox 1, formerly TTF-1/TITF1), gene at 14q13.3, encodes homeobox protein Nkx-2.1, a transcription factor for brain, lung, and thyroid development; pathogenic variants cause brain-lung-thyroid syndrome, and TTF-1 staining marks lung and thyroid cancers.
NKX2-5
NKX2-5 (NK2 homeobox 5, CSX) is a human chromosome 5q35.1 gene encoding a 324-amino-acid homeobox transcription factor essential for heart and spleen development; mutations cause atrial septal defect with AV conduction block, tetralogy of Fallot, and congenital hypothyroidism.