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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by UndisputedBosom(m): 9:34pm On Jun 26, 2016
OP may God bless you for this....well u just gained a new follower
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by ALAYORMII: 9:43pm On Jun 26, 2016
FrankLampard:


I didn't called anybody stupid, I will never do that.

But why are the Yoruba's, Hausa/Fulani claiming Niger Deltas Oil in Niger Delta soil.


I never said you called anyone stupid



The federal government is the one claiming oil and not Yorubas or Hausa nor Fulanis


And the federal government consists of all the tribes in Nigeria


All the best to you
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by GoldEnyong(m): 9:55pm On Jun 26, 2016
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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by FrankLampard: 9:56pm On Jun 26, 2016
miky2002:


And what is reperculsion of not being submissive? I case you don't know! It is perish... We Yorubas are submissive that is why we're on top of you guys...

Check out all the countries that were colonized and check the countries that are not?

See the difference.

Because you were submissive, you subjected us all to slavery.
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by teacherbim(f): 10:00pm On Jun 26, 2016
No 2,Patience Jona,I'm confused
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by girl4rmspace(f): 10:01pm On Jun 26, 2016
dancok:
that one no follow come at all,how can we speak English than English people itself. That last one is a lie.

my thoughts exactly

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by FrankLampard: 10:02pm On Jun 26, 2016
ALAYORMII:



I never said you called anyone stupid



The federal government is the one claiming oil and not Yorubas or Hausa nor Fulanis


And the federal government consists of all the tribes in Nigeria


All the best to you


You want to sound ignorant as if you have not been reading the news lately.
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by ALAYORMII: 10:08pm On Jun 26, 2016
FrankLampard:



You want to sound ignorant as if you have not been reading the news lately.



May the Lord open ur eyes (brain)
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by FrankLampard: 10:18pm On Jun 26, 2016
ALAYORMII:




May the Lord open ur eyes (brain)

The truth is bitter.
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by ALAYORMII: 10:24pm On Jun 26, 2016
FrankLampard:

The truth is bitter.


Very bitter
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Jimi23(m): 10:28pm On Jun 26, 2016
E remain goat wey nor go get PHD if Patience Diaris God geh PHD. PHD don become nonsense for naija. Someone who cannot construct a simple sentence in English.

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by jude90(m): 10:45pm On Jun 26, 2016
nice one
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by kenoz(m): 11:06pm On Jun 26, 2016
Good to know
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by jaybee(f): 11:17pm On Jun 26, 2016
ArcIbrahim38:
#56 when British colonialist first came to Northern Nigeria they found Northerner can read and write hausa in Arabic called Ajami, fully dressed and have government in place.


FACT
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Nov2(m): 11:21pm On Jun 26, 2016
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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by jaybee(f): 11:21pm On Jun 26, 2016
G
girl4rmspace:
Nigeria has more english speakers than england? I find that hard to believe

Try to fligure out the populations of both countries and you will find it easy to believe. Simple
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Freeman50(m): 11:25pm On Jun 26, 2016
Inspiring
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by lilreese: 11:31pm On Jun 26, 2016
Informative
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by firo08(m): 11:44pm On Jun 26, 2016
Jealouzzy:
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 regional organization in the history of the North.
31. George Goldie, who played a major role in founding Nigeria, placed a curse on anyone who attempts to write his biography.
32. In 1996, John Ogbu, a Nigerian Anthropologist firmly advocated for the use of African-American Vernacular to teach in the U.S
33. Hause Language indigenous to Northern Nigeria is spoken in 11 African States. Germany, French, U.S., and British International radio stations broadcast in Hausa.
34. The surgeon who ‘killed’ Stella Obasanjo was sentenced to 1 year in prison, disqualified for 3 years and fined €120,000.
35. The word ‘asiri’ means ‘secret’ in Hausa, Yoruba, Nupe and Igarra. It also means ‘gossip’ in Igbo.
36. Igbo-Ora in Oyo State, Kodinji in India and Candido Godoi in Brazil are the towns that produce the highest number of twin births in the world.
37. Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba, in 1857 produced a reading book for the Igbo Language and a full grammar and vocabulary of NUPE in 1864.
38. The first TV broadcast in Nigeria and Tropical Africa was on October 31, 1959.
39. In 1978, a 50Kobo increase (from #1.50 to #2) in the cost of University Students’ meal per day caused the ‘Ali Must Go’ protests.
40. Albert E. Kitson discovered coal in Enugu in 1909. This discovery led to the building of Port-Harcourt town in 1912.
41. Today, only Nigeria has a larger black population than Brazil. More than 3.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved and transported to Brazil.
42. Groundnut pyramids were the invention of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata to stack bags before export.
43. In 1967, old traditional ruler, Oba Akran and A. Ademiluyi were jailed for 14 years (7 each) for stealing £504,750 (#2.5b).
44. Since 1960, Nigeria has been either ruled by an ex-lecturer/ex-teacher or military man. The only exceptions are Azikiwe and Shonekan.
45. If you visited Lagos in 1975, you could spend a day at the Presidential Suite of Federal Palace Hotel for #100, single room for #19.
46. The first aircraft to land in Nigeria landed in Kano in July 1925. A British fighter jet flew from Khartoum (present day Sudan).
47. In 1895, Koko of Nembe (now in Bayelsa) took 60 white men hostage. When the British refused his demands, more than 40 of those men were eaten.
48. The ‘Naira’ was coined by Chief Obafemi Awolowo when he was serving as the Federal Commissioner of Finance.
49. Koma Hill (settlement in Adamawa where people lived and practised the killing of twins) was discovered in 1986 by a NYSC corps member.
50. The pilot (Francis Osakwe) that flew Ojukwu away from Biafra (1970) was the same pilot that flew Gowon to Uganda (last flight as Head of State).
51. In 1986, Shehu Shagari was banned from participation in politics for life. The ban has still not been lifted.
52. As the wife of the deputy Head of State (Vice President of Nigeria) in 1984, Biodun Idiagbon personally ran a small ice cream shop in Ilorin..
53. Koma Hills (Adamawa State) inhabitants when discovered were observed to engage in the practise of borrowing wives among themselves.
54. Juju, Dashiki, Yam and Okra are words in the English dictionary that originated from ethnic groups located in present day Nigeria.
55. Nigeria has more English speakers than England, and more Muslims than Saudi Arabia and Syria.
this is really educative
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by ArcIbrahim38(m): 11:57pm On Jun 26, 2016
meforyou1:
and there were no governments in southern Nigeria?

I am not insinuating that please don't confuse yourself. I can only say what I know and you are also free to tell us how Southern Nigeria Was at that time. please stop thinking that North and South are opposite now, this thread is about sharing history feel free to share yours nothing more.
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Achorise: 12:30am On Jun 27, 2016
okomogo:
LIE CLOCK!!!...(Laffmatazz)
Stella Obasanjo died and went to heaven ... As she stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly gates, She saw a huge wall of clocks behind her...
She asked, "What are all those clocks For?" St Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks... Everyone on earth has a Lie-Clock.
Every time you lie, the hands on your clock will move." "Oh," said Stella, "whose clock is that?"
"That's Bishop Ajayi Crowther's. The hands have never moved, indicating that he never told a lie."
"Incredible," said Stella. "And whose is that one?"
St Peter responded, "That's Nnamdi Azikwe's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Zik told only two lies in his entire life."
"Where's my husband, Obasanjo's clock?" asked
Stella. "Obasanjo's clock is in the Angel's office. He's using it as a ceiling fan, its rotating with high speed:
What of Lai Mohammed's?: His own clock is being upgraded to be used as a Helicopter rotor blades for its incredible speed!!!
wow! !!Guy you too much. nice one
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 12:31am On Jun 27, 2016
Bollinger:
Yam and Okra did not originate from Nigeria. It is just like saying tomato originates from Nigeria as well.
Okra originates from igbo word okwuru.
Browse it

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Aroh48(m): 12:42am On Jun 27, 2016
madukwe1:
Plsssssss who else go this interview message nd
knows the company? A frend of mind told me to
send my details to dia number den i did nd was
invited.
By RECOMMENDATION, PECALIAN-B MEGA
CONCEPT INVITES U 4 AN INTERVIEW ON
WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE @ NO 28 ADA-GEORGE
ROAD OPPOSITE TONINNO FILLING STATION.
TIME 9:AM REF CODE BTM/PEC 866.
In portharcourt, Rivers State.
Tenks
Confirm GNLD
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by tunde1200(m): 3:37am On Jun 27, 2016
Fantastic [color=][/color] grin
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by blueAgent(m): 3:54am On Jun 27, 2016
@OP nice article. but i dispute No 41. black popuplation in Brazil is not higher than the population of Tanzania,SouthAfrica and most black Nations
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by blueAgent(m): 4:01am On Jun 27, 2016
Lovetinz:
53. Koma Hills (Adamawa State) inhabitants when discovered were observed to engage in the practise of borrowing wives among themselves.

......................
How much is transport to Koma Hills from Lagos? shocked
......................


Lol...guy no go die!!!
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by blueAgent(m): 4:04am On Jun 27, 2016
DeeManD:

Yet we are worse in the true practice of both.
No be lie. we murder English .
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by adecares(f): 4:24am On Jun 27, 2016
Educating
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by otokx(m): 4:30am On Jun 27, 2016
adecares:
Educating

There are some lies in there e.g. Patience Jonathan does not have a PhD from UNIPORT.
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by optimusprime2(m): 5:16am On Jun 27, 2016
AuthorX:
#4. Can not be correct. I can assure you that no Nigerian or Nigerian of Igbo origin lives in any of these remote island nations with populations of about (or less than 10,000) :

(1) Vanautu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu

(2) Nauru
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru

(3) Tuvalu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu

and there are a few other such countries, where no Nigerians live in. Don't get carried away by the popular Nigerian nuances.
I met a Nigerian who plays football at a club in Fiji Islands, he moved to Fiji from Vanuatu. After asking how he knew about the pacific islands, he told me quite an adventure only Robinson Crusoe would be familiar with.
Now I don't know about Nauru or Tuvalu, but his presence in Vanuatu speaks volumes about Nigerians and violent migration.
By the way, he is Igbo.

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by me69: 5:43am On Jun 27, 2016
Patience doesn't have a PhD but an honorary PhD much much different
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Suurulere(m): 5:45am On Jun 27, 2016
Patience Jonathan does not have a PhD but an honorary degree from a South Korean University and Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe never ruled Nigeria. He was just a ceremonial (figurehead) president.

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