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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Taeewo(m): 1:03pm On Jun 26, 2016
R u still with CHELSEA?
FrankLampard:


It shows they are not submissive like you the Yoruba's.

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Oksman(m): 1:28pm On Jun 26, 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 would have loved you prove your points with explicit facts and not speculative contention as expressed by your submission.

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Nobody: 2:20pm On Jun 26, 2016
johnchukky:
nice
nice but Abacha died b4 Abiola
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by zdeen: 3:12pm On Jun 26, 2016
What of this too?

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Dfinex(f): 3:16pm On Jun 26, 2016
Eboh4z:
#47, Bayelsa people have been kidnapping and demanding ransom since 902BC

lolss. ..very funny. Are u saying Kidnapping runs in their blood? ?

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Elcapo(m): 3:53pm On Jun 26, 2016
Jealouzzy:
Do you know


55. Nigeria has more English speakers than England, and more Muslims than Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Nigerians dey always overdo everything

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Tunechi1(m): 4:04pm On Jun 26, 2016
Thanks op for the info
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by KingOvoramwen1(m): 4:29pm On Jun 26, 2016
Lol since morning na now you dey reach FP
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by KingOvoramwen1(m): 4:30pm On Jun 26, 2016
Lol since morning na now you dey reach FP but if na kim kardashain butt now hmmm
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Drbarmes(m): 4:30pm On Jun 26, 2016
Is there an igbo man in afghanistan?

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by sammyj: 4:32pm On Jun 26, 2016
Madam Patience . Food for thought. Uniport must be one of the number highest ranked University on the world. But where is her thesis oooo!!! grin grin shocked cheesy grin
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by asha90: 4:32pm On Jun 26, 2016
No. 50 is EPIC!

Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Mu2ni(m): 4:32pm On Jun 26, 2016
shocked
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by seunakin231(m): 4:33pm On Jun 26, 2016
Number 2 tells u about the educational system of Nigeria.......
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by miqos02(m): 4:34pm On Jun 26, 2016
hmm
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Pyno30: 4:35pm On Jun 26, 2016
Number 20 sha.
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Bollinger(m): 4:35pm On Jun 26, 2016
Yam and Okra did not originate from Nigeria. It is just like saying tomato originates from Nigeria as well.
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by scholes0(m): 4:35pm On Jun 26, 2016
How many times will this same thing make front page abeg?
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by dukeprince50: 4:36pm On Jun 26, 2016
I only read numba 1, wen i reach numba 2, i smell lies. Idonbilivit
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Nobody: 4:37pm 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.

Lalasticlala i offend you??

This thread seems to be a photocopy of my thread and mine did not make frontpage

https://www.nairaland.com/3015841/55-amazing-facts-probably-did

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Nobody: 4:38pm On Jun 26, 2016
I wonder who told you that Mrs Jonathan has a PhD.

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Holuwadammie(m): 4:39pm On Jun 26, 2016
Well done @Op
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by AfroKnight: 4:40pm On Jun 26, 2016
Honorary doctorate is not the same as a PhD

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by davodyguy: 4:40pm On Jun 26, 2016
Abiola died July 8 and not 7

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Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by DjAduba(m): 4:41pm On Jun 26, 2016
No. 2 is a big Fat LiE
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by primus101(f): 4:42pm On Jun 26, 2016
I don't believe half that shit
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by magicfingers009: 4:42pm On Jun 26, 2016
After seeing Number 2, I just know the rest are lies
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Countrygirl(f): 4:43pm 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 3rdlegxxx(m): 4:44pm 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.


Interesting facts
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Johncuppa(m): 4:45pm On Jun 26, 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 de
in 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
google d name, or it's gnld
Re: Facts About Nigeria: You'll Be Shocked To Find Out You Don't Know 99% Of This by Johncuppa(m): 4:46pm On Jun 26, 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 de
in 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 8!66.
In portharcourt, Rivers State.
Tenks
google d name, or it's gnld

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