Some striking facts You May Not Have Come Across:
1. There is a town in Jamaica called ABEOKUTA. It was founded by former slaves from present-day Ogun State who were brought to a plantation in that part of Jamaica.
2· The letter 'i' that Apple use (in their products iPhone, iPad, iMac, iPod) stands for "Interactive".
3· Edward James Roye, the fifth president of Liberia, was of Igbo descent.
4· President Robert Mugabe is Africa’s oldest Head of State and the world’s second oldest Head of State. He was born in 1924.
5· The name"Nigeria" was coined by Flora Shaw, the wife of Lord Lugard, Nigeria's Governor-General from 1914 to 1919.
6· There is a high school in Kingston, Jamaica named CALABAR High School, the capital of Cross River State.
7· Queen Elizabeth II is the only person who travels to any country without visa.
8· Ebun House, located at 85 Odunfa Street, was the first three-story building built in Lagos. It was constructed in 1914.
9· The city of Port Harcourt (capital of Rivers State) was named after Lewis Vernon Harcourt in 1913 by Frederick Lugard. It was originally known as Iguocha.
10· There are 3 things the Human Brain cannot resist noticing –Food, Attractive People and Danger.
11· The CMS Grammar School in Lagos, Nigeria is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria. It was founded on June 6, 1859.
12· The first book written in the Igbo language (Isoama-Ibo :A Primer) was by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the renowned Yoruba/Creole bishop?
13· Gatwick Airport in London, which is not that far from Heathrow Airport also in London, England is owned by Nigerian businessman Adebayo Ogunlesi.
14· The Naira, Nigeria’s currency, was named by Obafemi Awolowo.
15· Nigerian staple food cassava was brought to West Africa from Brazil by the Portuguese.
16. The Official Residence of the President of Barbados, a Caribbean country, very close to Jamaica and Bahamas and Jamaica, is called Oronna Court. The name Oronna was used by two Barbadorian Citizens close to a decade in tracing their origin to Ilaro in Ogun state. One was named Odewale and the other was named Aramide Oronna( the German Shepherd man) was one of the heroes/founders of Ilaro town alongside Iya Ala. Oronna is just like the likes of Lisabi and Shodeken in Egbaland.
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Ftp tins,nice one op

If only Nigerian youths would take time to investigate about their History and things about their nation at least we would build a better and educated NIGERIA.

DrRasheed:
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ok then go and research your own copy before you criticize

Nice post, but I don't think the Brain finds It hard to resist food and attractive people in all occasions.

op nice one

very educative

very educative especially the history of port Harcourt and the queen but about cassava there is an area called odoakpu in Onitsha which literally means(cassava abode)the area was known to be a forest during precolonial days and was full of cassava shoots

Osasnidas:
very educative

Thanks

peacesamuel94:
Nice post, but I don't think the Brain finds It hard to resist food and attractive people in all occasions.

my brother if dem bring 2plates of nkwobi, hot goat peppersoup, peppered kpomo, fried rice ,jollof rice along side 2 udeku and origine tell me say you go resist am.... can you even stay without food for small 48hrs ......and if one beauiful girl with manchester and ass_sernal pass you,tell me say your eyes no go turn orient to the direction of the force field.....hahahah

DCONE1:
ny brother if dem bring 2plates of nkwobi, hot goat peppersoup, peppered kpomo, fried rice ,jollof rice along side 2 udeku and origine tell me say you go resist am.... can you even stay without food for small 48hrs ......D

Lol,
what about after consuming the various delicacies you listed above, will you still want to consume more? it is possible to eat to the extent whereby the presence of food alone can make you vomit. that's why I said that food can be enticing but not everytime.

peacesamuel94:



Lol,
what about after consuming the various delicacies you listed above, will you still want to consume more? it is possible to eat to the extent whereby the presence of food alone can make you vomit. that's why I said that food can be enticing but not everytime.

Noo I plead to diagree with you....oK why do you eat two or three times a day....this is because you can not control the urge not to eat...it is inbuilt ,it is natural...

boss1310:
very educative especially the history of port Harcourt and the queen but about cassava there is an area called odoakpu in Onitsha which literally means(cassava abode)the area was known to be a forest during precolonial days and was full of cassava shoots

Hmmmm Interesting

Basit99:
op nice one

thank yoU bro