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| 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:49am On Apr 06, 2021 |
Now it makes sense! As a patriotic citizen of Nigeria and someone who has lived in this country for the majority of my life, I thought I knew every single thing there was to know about Nigeria. That was not until I saw a tweet by WTFFacts about Nigeria and couldn't believe it (that tweet is #5 on today's list). So, I went scavenging to see what other funny Nigerian facts I didn't know about and I'm happy to report back that I have found 10 good ones. Source: https://vocal.media/fyi/10-nigeria-fun-facts-you-ll-wish-you-knew-sooner Are you ready to dive in and read them? Then let's go! 1. The 1964 Civil War Was PAUSED Because of Football You heard that right. In 1964, during the civil war, there was a 2 day pause in the war because Nigerians wanted to watch Pelé play.
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:50am On Apr 06, 2021 |
2. 95% of Nigerians Don't Check Expiring Dates Ask yourself if you're Nigerian or a Nigerian person you know if you're non-Nigerian what the expiry date of what they're eating is and I can almost bet you money they probably have no idea.
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:51am On Apr 06, 2021 |
3. A Woman Can Sue a Man if He Doesn't Marry Her After Proposing Yup! This is a real Nigerian rule. According to the Nigerian Breach of Contract to Marry, if a man proposes to a woman and then suddenly calls off the marriage, the woman is within her rights to sue him
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:52am On Apr 06, 2021 |
4. 'African Time' Is Default Time in Nigeria CPT (Colored People Time) in America refers to the notion that for most black people when given a time for a program or occasion, come much later than the given time. So, if told a program starts by 12pm, expect people to start really showing up by 2pm. In Nigeria, we call this 'African Time' and it is the norm. If you tell a random Nigerian to come somewhere by 10am, expect to see them by 1pm. 1 Like
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:53am On Apr 06, 2021 |
5. The Nigerian Police Force Was Formed... On April Fool's Day. Yup! On April 1, 1930, the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) was formed.
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:54am On Apr 06, 2021 |
6. Nigerians Answer Questions With Questions. This is a funny fact best described by a short story I read online. The story goes that a British man once heard that Nigerians answer questions with questions. So on arriving at the Nigerian airport, he asked a young man, “Excuse me, is it true that Nigerians answer questions with questions?” to which the young man replied, “Who told you?” 2 Likes
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Monogamy: 6:54am On Apr 06, 2021 |
That number six heh, I am so guilty as anything...  |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:55am On Apr 06, 2021 |
7. Travel To The UK Once Didn't Need VISA Yes. Before 1984, a travel visa was not required to travel to the United Kingdom. This all changed of course after the Dikko Affair.
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:57am On Apr 06, 2021 |
8. Nigeria Holds The Record For... Most fried dough balls made in 8 hours by a team. Yup! According to the Guinness Book of World Records, The most fried dough balls made in 8 hours by a team is 38,897 achieved by Dangote Flour Mills Plc (Nigeria), in Lagos, Nigeria, on 27 October 2018. Dough balls are known as puff puffs in Nigeria. 9. Nigeria Also Holds The Record For... Longest duration spinning a plate on the finger. Remember in primary or secondary school, there was always that person that knew how to spin book or plate. Well, Nigeria apparently holds the record for that craft. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, The longest duration spinning a plate on the finger is 2 hr 14 sec, and was achieved by Esochaghi Victor (Nigeria), in Enugu sports club, Enugu, Nigeria, 21 July 2019. Esochaghi attempted the record as a personal achievement
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by MickzyDonald: 6:58am On Apr 06, 2021 |
No 2 is very true, most people take stuffs without going through the expiry date, even after it has expired sef you will still hear "IT'S STILL CONSUMABLE" No one can also compete for the puff puff position sef its our thing |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by TheEnygma(m): 6:58am On Apr 06, 2021 |
lol funny thread.... I'm still finding it hard to believe number 1 but t I'll go and do more research on it. number 5 actually explains why the force is so useless. |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 6:58am On Apr 06, 2021 |
10. Lagos REALLY is Over-Populated No, it's not just talk. There really are too many people in Lagos. Even though Lagos State is the smallest state, yes, the SMALLEST state in the country by surface area (i.e. by space), it still occupies the most people in the country. In fact, according to research the city of Lagos’ population is more than all of the eastern United States combined
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by gambia(m): 7:16am On Apr 06, 2021 |
The Africa Time stuff is so annoying, people dont keep to normal for meetings, occasions, events and even office resumption time. |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Kuaadoo(m): 7:47am On Apr 06, 2021 |
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| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by ThumbzTNA(m): 8:00am On Apr 06, 2021 |
Nice post I just knew it will be an Igbo person that will have the Guinness World Record. Igbos are world class achievers |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Sammy07: 8:03am On Apr 06, 2021 |
The Post is accurate |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by BigSarah(f): 8:07am On Apr 06, 2021 |
ThumbzTNA: Don't start, 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Nobody: 8:15am On Apr 06, 2021 |
no 3 |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Legalcriminal: 8:19am On Apr 06, 2021 |
No 4 and 6 is in our blood. Our elders are the cause for no 6 |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Exmilitant(m): 8:32am On Apr 06, 2021 |
I disagree with no.1, there was no civil war in nigeria in '64. The civil war happened between '67 and early 70. Nice write up though. |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by ThumbzTNA(m): 8:35am On Apr 06, 2021 |
BigSarah: |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Nobody: 9:12am On Apr 06, 2021 |
Nice thread  Good to learn something different. |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Nicklaus619(m): 9:23am On Apr 06, 2021 |
cupidFlint: Mad oh  |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Nicklaus619(m): 9:26am On Apr 06, 2021 |
cupidFlint: Legend  |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Nobody: 10:21am On Apr 06, 2021 |
cupidFlint:During Buhari's regime |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by FatherOfJesus: 10:34am On Apr 06, 2021 |
cupidFlint:Now I see why they make a fool of themselves |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by willybaby(m): 10:38am On Apr 06, 2021 |
cupidFlint:this one got me laughing hard |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Liposure: 10:54am On Apr 06, 2021 |
Unbelievable |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by Nobody: 11:03am On Apr 06, 2021 |
Nice one op. Here's another fun fact for y'all Nigeria officially broke up on October, 2022. I know cos I just came back from the future.  |
| Re: 10 Nigeria Fun Facts You'll Wish You Knew Sooner by cupidFlint(m): 12:50pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
Onojanson:it ended during Buhari's regime.. meaning he loves to end good things |
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