State of the art facilities began to spring up across major cities like Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt.

The elite few began to spend more on leisure life, various resorts in Lagos and across major states, luxury hotels like Federal Palace Hotel Lagos became the hub of relaxation for elites who required top notch service.

Listed below are 25 interesting/fun facts about Nigeria and its people.

1.Nigeria was formed under Governor Frederick Lugard in 1914.

2.Nigerians make up one-fifth of the total population of Black Africa.

3.The Nigerian currency was introduced in 1959.

4.With 521 languages, Nigeria is the third most multi lingual country in the world according to ethnologue.

5.In the 1850s, Kano, one of the largest cities in Africa, made 10 million sandal pairs and 5 million hides for export annually.

6. In 1246 AD the Kanemi of Borno created a sensation in Tunisia when he sent a gift of a giraffe to Al-Mustapha, king of Tunis.

7. In 1000AD, Queen Luwo, the twenty-first Ooni of Ile-Ife supervised the design and construction of the streets with quartz pebble and broken pottery. Originally created to pave the way for the queen so as not to soil her clothing and feet during the rainy season. By the 14th and 15th centuries, apaadi Luwo had become part of the architectural heritage of Ife.

8. Lord Lugard described Kano: ‘Commercial emporium of the western Sudan.’ Of its wall, he said, ‘I have never seen, nor even imagined, anything like it in Africa.’ He estimated in 1904 that there were 170 walled towns still in existence in the whole of just the Kano province of northern Nigeria.

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