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Facts You Need To Know by kingsman66(m): 9:09am On Jun 29, 2016 |
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. |
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