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Things You May Not Know About Nigeria by kozmokaz(m): 5:54pm On Mar 16, 2016 |
Things you may not know about Nigeria
Do you know that?
1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed
between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction
company and cost £5 million.
2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated
First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from
University of Port-Harcourt.
3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is
called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of
Death”.
4. There are 196 countries in the world and at least one Igbo
person from Nigeria lives in every one of them.
5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese
and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both country’s ships traded
slaves from the Bight of Benin.
6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has
produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of State since it was
founded in 1921 in Katsina.
7. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at
Regular Officers Special Training School, Ghana. Both
‘fought’ their teacher during the civil war
8. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were 41
Secondary Schools in the North and 842 Secondary Schools
in the South.
9. In 1983, Senator Arthur Nzeribe spent $16.5 million to
win a Senatorial seat in Orlu (in Imo State).
10. In 1973, the Federal Government of Nigeria considered
officially changing the name of “Lagos” to “Eko”. Regarding
“Lagos” as a colonial name.
11. The geographical area now referred to as Nigeria was
once referred to as ‘Soudan’ and ‘Nigiritia’.
12. Offences punishable by death sentence after the 1966
coup included embezzlement, rape and homosexuality.
13. MKO Abiola was named Kashimawo (Let us wait and
see) by his parents. He was his father’s twenty-third child,
but the first to survive infancy.
14. Jaja Wachucku was the first person to refer to Lagos as
a “no-man’s land” in 1947, provoking a national
controversy.
15. Jollof rice, chicken breast, serve of ice cream, tea, coffee
or Bournvita, with full cream milk and sugar: Meal Cost =
50Kobo- Unilag in the late 1970s
16. At the point death in 1989, Sam Okwaraji was a PhD
candidate and qualified lawyer with an LL.M in International
Law (University of Rome)
17. When British Bank of West Africa (now First Bank)
opened a branch in Kano in 1929, Alhassan Dantata
(Dangote’s Grandfather) opened an account depositing 20
camel-loads of silver coins.
18. Jaja Wachuku is reputed to have owned the biggest
one-man library in West Africa. Balewa sometimes referred
to him as “Most Bookish Minister
19. The colonization of Nigeria took more than 40 years to
achieve and the territories were integrated by the use of
force.
20. Yoruba is spoken as a ritual language the Santeria cult
in Carribean and South-Central America.
21. Slavery existed in the Nigerian territory before the 15th
century and was abolished in the 19th century- 1807 by the
British.
22. At least 55 women were killed in South-East Nigeria, in
1929 when the women forced the Umuahia warrant chiefs to
submit to their rule.
23. The coinage ‘Supreme Court’ was first used in 1863 by
the colonial administration through the enactment of the
Supreme Court Ordinance No. II.
24. MKO Abiola died suddenly on July 7, 1998, exactly one
month after General Sani Abacha died mysteriously on June
8, 1998.
25. Agbani Darego was the only one to wear a maillot as
opposed to a bikini during the Miss Universe contest in
2001.
26. The ‘Ankara’ material is not indigenous to Nigeria. Our
indigenous textiles include the Akwete, Ukara, Aso-Oke and
Adire.
27. Aloma Mukhtar is the first female lawyer from the North
and went on to become the first female Chief Justice of
Nigeria.
28. The area known as Makoro town in Lagos was first a
swamp, later sand-filled by the colonial government and
served as the first bridge to the Island.
29. Esie Museum is Nigeria’s first museum, established in
1945. Once reputed to have the largest collection of
soapstone images in the world.
30. Aminu Kano formed the Northern Teachers’ Association
(NTA) in 1948, the first successful region |
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