Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins.
Twins Kehinde Adamolekun, left, and Taiwo Adamolekun, 28, attend the annual twins festival in Igbo-Ora South west Nigeria, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022.Twins Kehinde Adamolekun, left, and Taiwo Adamolekun, 28, attend the annual twins festival in Igbo-Ora South west Nigeria, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022.IGBO-ORA, Nigeria — Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora.For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins.
John Ofem, a gynecologist based in the capital, Abuja, says it very well could be"that there are things they eat there that have a high level of certain hormones that now result in what we call multiple ovulation." Taiwo Ojeniyi, a Nigerian student, said he attended the festival with his twin brother"to celebrate the uniqueness" of multiple births.
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