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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.

3· The letter 'i' that Apple use (in their products iPhone, iPad, iMac, iPod) stands for "Interactive".

4· Edward James Roye, the fifth president of Liberia, was of Igbo descent.

5· President Robert Mugabe is Africa’s oldest Head of State and the world’s second oldest Head of State. He was born in 1924.

6· The name"Nigeria" was coined by Flora Shaw, the wife of Lord Lugard, Nigeria's Governor-General from 1914 to 1919.

7· There is a high school in Kingston, Jamaica named CALABAR High School, the capital of Cross River State.

8· Queen Elizabeth II is the only person who travels to any. country without visa.

9· Ebun House, located at 85 Odunfa Street, was the first three-story building built in Lagos. It was constructed in 1914.

10· 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.

11· There are 3 things the Human Brain cannot resist noticing –Food, Attractive People and Danger.

12· The CMS Grammar School in Lagos, Nigeria is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria. It was founded on June 6, 1859.

13· The first book written in the Igbo language (Isoama-Ibo :A Primer) was by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the renowned
Yoruba/Creole bishop

14· Gatwick Airport in London, which is not that far from Heathrow Airport also in London, England is owned by
Nigerian businessman Adebayo Ogunlesi.

15· The Naira, Nigeria’s currency, was named by Obafemi Awolowo.

16· Nigerian staple food cassava was brought to West Africa from Brazil by the Portuguese

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I believe guys should learn from this

Good morning Nairalanders. please have you ever come across this laptop manufacturer before?

crazyclown07:
That a lie bruv
That means $1 was equivalent to #1

I tink its pounds not dollar

YORUBA MOTHERS!!! Yoruba mothers are one of the best when it comes to child upbringing. Yoruba mothers produce the best range of slaps: IGBATI, IFOTI, IGBAJU, IGBARUN, IFORUN, IFAKUN, ILADI, ABARA. These slaps will make you think you were adopted. IGBATI will make you correct your wrongs instantly! The beauty of IFOTI is, you will confess your sins on the spot. IGBARUN, IGBAJU and IFORUN will make you expose those who committed the crime with you without hesitation. ABARA and ILADI will make you pee in your new pants. And apart from IGBAJU, we have an advanced one which is IGBAJU OLOYI. When you receive that one, you'll lose balance and your head will go into "auto-search"asyou'll be looking for what hit you. Oh!!! IGBAJU OLOYI... It can reset someone to 3D (DEAF,DUMB and DAFT). You'll be told 'let's go home' and you'll say 'its in my pocket'... LOL !!! GOD bless our parents for the good upbringing. If you were brought-up in yoruba land,regardlessof how caring your mother was, you would have encountered these slaps..... I know you're now laughing unless you're not a YORUBA but make sure you don't laugh alone..gud morning.

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Goodmoning nairalanders.
I have noticed the way people carelessly handle kids this days so I came across this picture and decide to share...enjoy

Yeesssssss!!!!! I MADE FRONTPAGE!!!!! I wanna dedicate Dis to my late mother (MHSRI), my friends Tunde and tosin, my brodas and sisters, my cousin Monsurat who is wedding today (HML), my wife to be, my enemies, my families, Seun osewa, lalasticlala and all nairalanders. u are blessed...kisses

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, Syria and Afghanistan combined.

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These babies were found in a chinese restaurant in the city of douala/ cameroon. In a refrigerator , to the best soup, cruelty without mercy. Be careful with chinese dishes.

this guy got me laughing,

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Goodmorning Nairalanders,
I woke up this morning and I felt strange. I mean I started seeing this life in a different perspective. The thought "u cannot satisfy d world" ran through my mind.
can u just imagine;

"If you work, you're missing your kid's childhood. If you stay home, you're wasting your education and not giving them an example of a strong, independent woman. If you're a strict disciplinarian, your children will be stunted emotionally with damaged spirits. If you practice gentle parenting, you're raising a future serial killer.

If you homeschool, your child will never be able to succeed in society and will live in your basement playing World of Warcraft and and attend furry conventions forever. If they go to private school, they'll be elitist snobs. If they go to public school, good luck because they'll be on heroin before 7th grade and are probably pregnant right now.

If you have only one child, they're going to be lonely and when you die, they'll have no one. If you have two of the same sex, how sad for you- surely you'll try for the opposite gender? If you have three or more, you're contributing to the collapse of the environment, imminent extinction of all protected species and overpopulation with your freakishly large family.

If you're raising a vegan, you're annoying and your child's bones are surely brittle as hell. If your kids eat meat, you're a ruthless murderer and don't you know sausage causes cancer? If your kids can't have sugar, you're denying them a proper childhood. If your kids can have sugar, you're setting them up for a life of obesity and a snack cake addiction.

If you breastfed, it was either for too long or not long enough and please do it under a tarp in a pitch black room because nobody wants to see your sex breasts. If you didn't breastfeed, your child will never know true love, good health, or a real mother's love.

The moral of the story is, when it comes to parenting, there is always someone who'll think you're doing it all wrong so unless they're paying your bills, just do you."

na wetin u want mk I use more of her pix do? pikin lost and u wam use dat one sell ur market. #lubbish

A recent research has shown that there are
health reactions to the seasonal feature,
which might look harmless, but could end up
causing life-threatening pneumonia.
If you are thinking of switching to an artificial
tree, beware of its layer of dust which may
cause a set of its own problems.
Experts say the runny nose and cough that
many of us associate with this time of year
may well be caused by the mould harboured
by the tree. Further studies reveal that the longer your
tree is up, the worse you could feel.
Research says that 35 per cent of people
surveyed suffer from an increase of hay fever-
like symptoms over the festive season, with
pine Christmas trees causing most of the
problems.
According to a recent poll for Prevalin Allergy
(dubbed Christmas tree syndrome), symptoms
include itchy nose, watery eyes, wheezing,
coughing, chest pains, lethargy and insomnia.
Complicated cases of the allergy may lead to
pneumonia and if not properly handled, death.
Scientists from Upstate Medical University,
part of the State University of New York, found
that when they analysed pine needles and bark
from 28 Christmas trees, they found 53 cases
of mould.
According to them, this mould releases spores
that can trigger allergic reactions in people
who are susceptible.
Dr Lawrence Kurlandsky, who conducted the
research, said in his report: “If you and your
children don’t have any obvious allergies, Some of the signs are if you suddenly have an
asthma attack after the tree is brought
indoors or if your nose suddenly starts running
and you are sneezing, even though you don’t
feel as if you have a cold.
For some people the effects of the mould can
be severe. In around one in 500 people, such
as those with a compromised immune system.
The mould will settle and grow inside their
airways, and will cause the sudden onset of a
cough and fatigue that won’t shift.
A spokesman for the London allergy clinic
said: “Someone with a lot of allergies can
react to simply the smell of the Christmas
tree, which comes from the pine resin, and it
can trigger sneezes and wheezes in some
people.
“Also, if someone already has a respiratory
allergy – such as to a pet or dust mites –
then the lining of their nose is already over-
secreting and sensitive and the mould on the
Christmas tree may make the symptoms of
their normal allergy worse.
Recommendations
Experts recommend spraying your tree with a
mild bleach solution just before you take the
tree into the house, as this will help kill off the
mould.
If you are suffering from mild sneezes or just
a bit of a runny nose, then take
antihistamines.
Nasal sprays are the best because they work
directly on the nasal passages where the
allergic reaction to the mould is triggered.
Allergens expert, Max Wiseberg said “If you
have stored your tree since last year, it will
have accumulated a layer of dust which will
be dispersed when it is disturbed.
“So consider how your store your artificial tree
when it’s not in use – packing it away in a
sealed box will mean less dust accumulates.
“Also, give it a good clean when you get it out
of storage – ideally outside or away from the
living room, so that you’re not simply
displacing the dust around the room.
“Hosing down your tree before taking it into
the house, or after getting it out of storage,
can help get rid of some of the mould and
spores – though it’s probably best to get
someone who isn’t allergic to do this!