Juniper Publishers- Journal of cell Science Abstract The nasopharyngeal lymphoma has been reported from countries as far apart as China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Morocco, Tunisia, and USA. Therefore, this report comes from Nigeria with special reference to the Ibo ethnic group. It was found that mostly young patients of either sex were involved. Follow-up data are not available. Keywords: Nasopharynx; Lymphoma; Age; Nigeria; Ibos Introduction Squamous cell carcinoma is defined as “a malignant epithelial neoplasm exhibiting squamous differentiation as characterized by the formation of keratin and/or the presence of intercellular bridges” [1]. This was illustrated in a case report from India [1] as well as from Saudi Arabia [2] and from the UK [3]. Therefore, this paper presents a series from the Ibo ethnic group’s developing community [4], this being done on account of the author’s headship of a histopathology data pool such as the one fostered by a Birmingham (UK) group [
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