wizzybro10:
Very educative I must say...Op well done

Thank you

Shared as Posted by Engr Matazu
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 Msc 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, served with 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 Maroko 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 (N2.5b).
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 N100, single room for N19.
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. Can someone explain why Nigerian history is not taught as a compulsory subject from primary to tertiary education level. Perhaps our thinking will change....

Catalin:
Someone said employers don't accept NOUN certificates. I don't know if its true.

Hhhhhh wat of funny

Noun wahala

kazmanbanjoko:
we r talkin abt international. Not national.

I salute u sir, I thought national borders can be referred to boundaries that separate states of a country?
Is Benin republic Nigeria's territory?

sanandreas:
This man is a president in disguise. He is receiving guest just like buhari.

Lol

taketime2019:
GOVERNMENT please tell us the truth.

Sir u need to visit d forest so that u can analyse the truth of wat is going on base on what u see physically

sarrki:

In a statement signed by its spokesman, Dayo Adeyeye, the party, however, noted that the success resulted from the strong foundation laid by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Lie of the century

Ok

see civilization at its peak

Credible source please

NafeesaAA:
Old story, Zeezee is my friend and she has long dispute this rumor 3yrs ago when it first surfaced.

now that she is ur friend pls ask her for more clarification about the recent rumour circulating online

NafeesaAA:
Rice market in Saminaka, Lere

Operation feed the nation in progress

See his face like donkey ya.nsh

emamos:
for not carry d radio on d head abi?

Hhhhhhh this question deserves A1

ikennaf1:


Have you not heard her father believes a woman's place is In the other room?

Is there any other place where ur Dad need the service of ur mum more apart from other room Just asking

oloyeagbaakin:
Please can't see where to apply don't know if it only me

You have to create an account first and log in before you apply

Very good. Gradually PMB is making these seats less attractive in the sense only patriotic citizens will accept political appointment.
No wonder recently Ministers protest inadequate accomodation funds which force them to squat in others' residents

BrutalJab:
Whatz Buhari doing on this list

Don't worry I know they will bring thread about most handsome immediate past presidents, I will come to see which position ur hero GEJ will occupy

DrRasheed:
I fear politics than insurgency.. Wailers where u dey na

have u ever found urself in north east 2years back??

That is why i keep saying whenever u saw someone complaining about PMB's fight against corruption check his name either Ugandan or their sympathizer, cos they r d only set of unpatriotic zombies we hv in dis country

So this woman thinks he is joking with his "i belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody".

As far as his appointments are based on merit i don't care with those crying foul. The era of first lady influencing president's appointments is over. I am very sure her inability to impose her relatives in his appointments force her to wail on air

Very soon they will order the procurement of luxury cars worth million of nairas

Why APC not Edolites?

Very good.
From all indications recession is biting harder in the south south.
Thank u Avengers, ur activities are yielding positive result, continue with ur good works.

Dandsome:
Immoral??

Please can someone define the immoral part of the video here please. They didn`t kiss o. Just that she hugged him from behind? I hate hypocrisy to the core. These same people explelling her will still sleep with small girls in the dark o.

before you quote me, chill cos I grew up in the north, I know what i`m talking about.
Unless there is something else that is making them expel her apart from this video

What is moral in ur community, maybe immoral in others own.
That is why u may found it is morally accepted in ur locality for young and old women to roam on streets half unclad like roasted goat, while in others is against moral values

Alawe:
Go and play for shiit. Is it not where one applied that he would be given admission, if fulfilled the requirements. So IGBOS should go and pack bus in ibadan, abiokuta or oshogbo and ask yorubas to come and study in the east? How many yorubas or hausas in the east are into schooling or seeking for admission to study there rather than the businesses that took then to the place unlike the Igbos in the west and north. Do u know what is catchment ... Or let me not talk to u, you said u are in america, just face ur america there.

The problems of Ugandans is intolerance with guests, they don't accept guests with good faith like other tribes do

End time beard

I will take this man serious when he name one after current president

boardmem:
Shame on nigeria, if we are to invite morocco what are we going to show them?

Baby factories

Scores of labourers have sustained various degrees of
injury following collapse of a 3-story building meant for
the Department of Architecture at the Kano State Science
and Technology, Wudil, Kano.


Daily Trust gathered that the building which was under
construction collapsed around 1pm today.


It was not certain whether the building collapse claimed
lives as according to a student, who does not want his
name in print, some labourers were working when the
building collapsed.


"I think it has collapsed on some people but rescue
workers are still searching. It is under construction,
therefore students are not taking lectures in the building,"
he said.


Another student, who also craved for anonymity, said:
"We learnt that scores of labourers have sustained
various degrees of injuries."
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/scores-injured-in-kano-university-building-collapse/159843.html

CONVINCED by the genuine effort being
made by elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark,
to engender peace in the Niger Delta region,
members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)
have expressed support for the proposed
peace initiative with the Federal
Government.


The group, which has denied its
involvement in any dialogue with the Federal
Government in the past, made this known in
a statement signed by its spokesperson,
‘Brigadier-General Mudoch Agbinibo and
published on its website late Saturday
night.


“We are going to support any collective/
negotiation team emerging from Chief Clark,
Niger Delta elders and genuine
stakeholders’ conference to engage with the
Federal Government of Nigeria,
representatives from the home countries of
all multinational oil corporations and neutral
international mediators that will be focused
on achieving the short, medium and
longterm frameworks and objectives to de-
escalating conflicts in the Niger Delta,” the
group declared.


It, however, advised the Clark-led
stakeholders’ forum to consult and be
guided by past submissions, reports,
declarations and recommendations of
various commissions and committees for
the region.


“Most of the frameworks and objectives are
clearly stated in various reports,
declarations and recommendations of the
like of the Sir Henry Willinks minority rights
reports of pre-independence Nigeria
(1957-, the Kaiama Declaration document,
the General Alexander Ogomudia report, the
Leedum Mittee headed, Niger Delta
Technical Committee report and
restructuring to fiscal federalism.


“We have resolved to reject any idea of the
peace of our times; we want the peace with
honour this time around,” it warned.
The group said it would continue its
unannounced cessation of hostilities
provided security agents stopped harassing
and intimidating innocent folks in the Niger
Delta creeks.


“We are going to continue the observation of
our unannounced cessation of hostilities in
the Niger Delta against all interests of the
multinational oil corporations, but we will
continuously adopt our asymmetric warfare
during this period if the Nigerian government
and the ruling APC continue to use security
agencies/agents, formations and politicians
to arrest, intimidate, invade and harass
innocent citizens, suspected NDA members
and invade Ijaw communities especially,” the
group warned.
It, however, vowed to resume hostilities if
the opportunity being offered by Clark failed.
According to NDA, “we promise to fight
more for the Niger Delta, if this opportunity
fails.


“Therefore, we will give our Niger Delta
elders and genuine stakeholders that tacit
support to go to the dialogue table with the
government and the multinational oil
corporations whenever enabling
environment prevails,” it added.
The militants singled out some groups and
personalities, asking them to inform their
sponsors that doom awaits them in the
nearest future.


“Those sold and bought up interests from
around the corridors of power cannot
armtwist the NDA with bandits, drug addicts,
illegal bunkerers, bank robbers and
disorganised characters to derail the Niger
Delta struggle,” the Avengers conjectured.
It will be recalled that Chief Clark, last
Friday, held a one-day Niger Delta coastal
states stakeholders’ meeting in Warri, Delta
State, to de-escalate the persistent security
concerns in the region, with a view to
finding a lasting solution to the debacle.


The stakeholders, including traditional
rulers, elders, leaders of thoughts, youths
and women from Niger Delta coastal states,
made seven recommendations in a
communique issued at the end of the
meeting.


They called on the Federal Government to
stop the deployment of military hardware
and personnel to the creeks of the region.
They also contended that the deployment of
military hardware in the area was causing
fear, unease and social dislocation of
innocent people.


The communique also called on agitators
and aggrieved groups in the region to listen
to pleas by traditional rulers, elders and
leaders of thoughts to halt further hostilities
on the nation’s oil and gas facilities and
embrace dialogue.


It urged the Federal Government to show
more seriousness by reaching out to
authentic representatives of the region,
involving all ethnic nationalities, interest
groups in an all-embracing manner, in order
to chart a way forward.


The communique also demanded, among
others, the adoption of the restructuring of
the political system and the practice of
equittable fiscal federalism for sustainable
peace and development of the country, as
recommended in the 2014 national
conference.
http://tribuneonlineng.com/breaking-avengers-agree-dialogue-clark-warn-mend-rnda-oshiomohle-others/