“…Several studies have recently been undertaken on fingerprints from the Hausas of Nigeria. Recent studies by Adamu et al (2016aAdamu et al ( , 2016bAdamu et al ( , 2017aAdamu et al ( , 2017b, Adamu (2017), and Adamu and Taura (2017) have investigated the minutiae in the Hausa population in Kano and estimated its association with sexual dimorphism in epidermal ridges, sex variation in thumb minutiae, estimation of body mass index, and sex estimation.. There is therefore a need to assess the type and frequencies of different fingerprint minutiae in Nigerians of other ethnic origins, including Igbo and Yoruba.…”