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 of 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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Sheun Shagari Banned for Life. That really interesting oh_ Why them no fit do em nowaday? Corruption still rocks anyway!

FazzyKachi:
Sheun Shagari Banned for Life. That really interesting oh_
Why them no fit do em nowaday? Corruption still rocks anyway!

some people are above d law now Ooo..

kizitokings2018:

some people are above d law now Ooo..

Eg- Jagaban Himself. (:- I no call name sha_