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gentle man we re not talking of storey building here ... we are talking of sky scrapers .. anything below 280 ft and 25 floors ... don't show us 10 floors structure

Mummyjoy:
Your acclaimed 27sky scrapers where built by who? Just asking though. At least I know that Ernest Azudialu(nestoil) have one. Others most of which are foreign companies headquarters

we have been building skyscrapers in the west before Ernest azudialu (nest oil ) father was born .. infact your forefathers were still living on the trees with monkeys without clothes, when the west have started building skyscrapers ...
but why Ernest no build skyscrapper for the east ? why did he decided to come to west to build it ? something must be wrong with the east ... or is the east cursed not to have good things ?

zenmaster:
51% of Lagos is from the east (Igbo)

no 99%. am not interested in who build it .. the question here is how many skyscraper are in igboland.. and also Yoruba's don't engage in emotional arguments bring your facts and figures to claim the 51%. don't come here and tell us that someone told your uncle and your uncle told you told arguments

please am curious .. I need it for an important project .. and I have search google, and I did not find any thing.
can the east boost of any skyscraper in this 21st century cuz the west constructed one decades ago and their are over 27 skyscraper in the west as of today .

No tribal bashing please

[quote author=navyseal2220 post=59357057][/quote]pigs and idiots

frustrated pigbo.... pigs and idiot

FIRST LAWYER TO PRACTICE IN NIGERIA

Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams (1855–1915) was the first indigenous Nigerian lawyer, called to the English bar on 17 November 1879. In addition to his legal practice, he came to play an influential role in the politics of Nigeria during the colonial era. [1] Williams was the elder brother of Oguntola Sapara , who became a prominent physician.
Williams was born on 14 July 1855. [3] He was of
Ijesha origin, but was born in Sierra Leone . [4] He studied the Law in London at the Inner Temple , and was called to the English bar on 17 November 1879. Returning from the United Kingdom, he began practising law in Lagos Colony on 13 January 1888. He had an unmatched reputation as an advocate, and had intimate knowledge of unwritten customary law. He enrolled in the Nigerian Bar Association on 30 January 1888, and was Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1900 to 1915.
Although Williams was the first indigenous Nigerian to formally qualify as a lawyer, he was not the only one to practice the law. Due to the shortage of qualified lawyers, until 1913 it was common for non-lawyers with basic education and some knowledge of English law to be appointed to practice as attorneys.

FIRST FEMALE MEDICAL DOCTOR IN NIGERIA.

The first female medical Doctor in Nigeria is Mrs, Dr Abimbola Silva . In 1979, she was honoured with the Officer of the Order of the Niger. She was also the oldest female medical doctor before she died July 19, 2016 at 89 years.
She was born in Lagos on the 17th of May 1926 to the family of Reverend Samuel Charles Phillips and Mrs Evangeline Elizabeth.Dr Silva started her education at the Caxton House School, Lagos in 1929. The school was a kindergarten started by Mrs Abimbola Gibson (Nee Blaise). From Caxton House, she went on to the CMS Girls’ School on Broad Street in 1931 when she was almost five years old. She finished her secondary education in Grade 1 with a distinction in
Mathematics in 1943.She left for England in 1944 towards the end of the Second World War and was admitted to study Medicine at the University of Liverpool. She graduated in December 1951 and became the first Nigerian woman to graduate in medicine with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B Ch.B) and the third to qualify as a doctor. Two other women had qualified as doctors before her; they were Dr Mrs. Abimbola Awoliyi (who had inspired her) and Dr. Mrs. Amy Nwapa (nee Johnson) both of whom were licentiates.

FIRST MEDICAL DOCTOR TO PRACTICE IN NIGERIA

Nathaniel Thomas King was born in Hastings, Sierra Leone , to the Yoruba family of Reverend Thomas and Mary King. [2][3] His father was a catechist of the Church Missionary Society who assisted Ajayi Crowther in translating the Bible to Yoruba . [4] In 1850, his father moved to the Yoruba mission in Abeokuta , Ogun State , and the family went along with him. In 1861, the young King was recommended by Henry Venn as one of the four students to be trained at a Church Mission Society (CMS) pre-medical training program under Dr A. A. Harrison, a Cambridge -trained doctor. However, Harrison died in 1865 and Venn recommended King to
Fourah Bay College [5] to continue his studies. While in
Freetown , he also worked in the colonial hospital. King later went to King's College, London, with sponsorship from his uncle, Henry Robbin, and CMS. King obtained his MRCS from King's College and his medical degree from University of Edinburgh in 1876. He returned to Nigeria and was involved in developing modern medical practice in the country.
In Nigeria, he promoted environmental sanitation, acted as an examiner for CMS Grammar School, Lagos, and Wesley College and he was also a trust member of the Rebecca Hussey fund for Africans.

FIRST MEDICAL SURGEON IN NIGERIA

Sir Samuel Layinka Ayodeji Manuwa , CMG , OBE (1903–1976) was a pioneering Nigerian surgeon ,
Inspector General of Medical Services and former Chief Medical Adviser to the Federal Government of Nigeria. He was the first Nigerian to pass the FRCS [1] and he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1934. [2] In 1966, he was elected president of the World Federation for Mental Health. During his lifetime he served as a Nigerian aristocrat , holding the
chieftaincy titles of the Obadugba of the Ondo clan, the
Olowa Luwagboye of the Ijebu clan and the Iyasere of the Itebu Lineage, all of the south-western region of the country.

FIRST HOSPITAL IN NIGERIA

Sacred Heart Personal Hospital, Lantoro, was established in 1895, about 117 years ago. It is the oldest existing medical hospital in Nigeria. The hospital was established by Catholic Missionaries and presently under the proprietorship of Most Revd. Dr. Peter Olukayode Odetoyinbo who took over from the now Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos, the Most Revd. Alfred Adewale Martins. The hospital is a 300 bed hospital with Dr. Kehinde Sowole as the first indigenous Medical Director. Sacred Heart Hospital os the off-shot of many other Catholic hospitals in and around the state and presently has annexes at Aiyetoro,

FIRST CONSTRUCTED EXPRESS WAY IN NIGERIA

The Lagos–Ibadan Expressway is a 127.6-kilometre-long (79.3 mi) expressway connecting Ibadan , the capital of Oyo State and Lagos , Nigeria's largest city. It is also the major route to the northern, southern and eastern parts of Nigeria. The expressway is the oldest in Nigeria, commissioned in August 1978 during the Military era, under the administration of Major-General Olusegun Obasanjo, who resigned on October 1, 1979, before he was later elected in May 29, 1999.
This expressway is the busiest inter-state route in Nigeria and handles more than 250,000 PCUs daily and constitutes one of the largest road networks in Africa. It is part of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) projects, concerned with road improvement and connectivity between the
States of Nigeria .

FIRST STOREY BUILDING IN NIGERIA

The foundation of the first storey building in Nigeria was laid in 1842 and the house was completed in 1845 in Badagry, Lagos State.
History has it that the ancient structure was erected by Reverend Henry Townsend of the Church Missionary Society (CMS).

The structure was occupied by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first African C.M.S Bishop when he undertook the translation of the Holy Bible from English to Yoruba. It was also used as Vicarage for saint Thomas Anglican church.

FIRST CHURCH IN NIGERIA

The first church in Nigeria is the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Ake, Abeokuta . Its foundation was laid by Reverend Andrew Desalu Wilhelm, and it was completed in 1898. The church served as a rallying point for a number of Christian missionaries who brought Christianity into Abeokuta at the time.
Although a newer and bigger auditorium has been built in the church premises where worship sessions are now being held, the original structure of the oldest church is still intact in the church premises and preserved as an artefact. Also within the church premises is a hall named after Rev. Henry Townsend, one of the earliest Christian missionaries.

NIGERIA FIRST NEWSPAPER COMPANY

The first newspaper in Nigeria is the Iwe Irohin fun Awon Ara Egba (literally means the newspaper for Egba people). Doubling as the first indigenous language newspaper in Africa, it was established in Abeokuta, Ogun State by Henry Townsend , a Christian missionary. The newspaper was published bi-weekly in two languages: Yoruba and English. It ran for eight years (1859-1967).
The pages of the Iwe Irohin newspaper focused on political activities, births, deaths, and other events that happened in Abeokuta at the time. The paper had no pictures and the printing was done with the crude technology available at the time.

During its eight-year existence, the Iwe Irohin served the purpose of encouraging reading among Abeokuta people and discouraged slave trade. This explains why Townsend quickly became popular and influential in Abeokuta at the time.
The newspaper’s circulation was halted by an uprising in Abeokuta, which led to the destruction of the printing equipment used to produce and publish the newspaper.

NIGERIA FIRST PRIMARY SCHOOL

The first primary (elementary) school was established by the Methodist mission in the first half of the 19 century in the border town of Badagry. After the establishment of the first primary school in 1843, other primary schools were founded in other towns like Abeokuta and Ibadan in southwest Nigeria.
The primary school of 1843 was named Nursery of Infant Church. In 1845, it became St. Thomas’ Anglican Nursery and Primary School. The school was housed in the first story building in Badagry before moving to its location in Topo, Badagry where the relic of the old building can still be seen today.
Now that we know of the first primary school in Nigeria which happen to have been established in southwest Nigeria, let’s take a look at the first primary school in Northern Nigeria. Since the initial purpose of western education was to convert ‘pagans’ to Christianity, Northern Nigeria did not welcome western education until much later. In the North, Islamic education flourish under the highly educated Islamic scholars.
In 1865, the Bishop Crowther LGA Primary School was established in Lokoja, Kogi State by the Anglican missionary. Not much has been written about this school so I can’t tell if it was a successful attempt in western education in Northern Nigeria. In 1899, the colonial government had to establish a government primary school in Lagos for the Muslim students as a result of their unwillingness to attend the missionary schools. This would be the first Government school in Nigeria.

FIRST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NIGERIA

Lagos in Lagos State , is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria, founded on 6 June 1859 by the Church Missionary Society . For decades it was the main source of African clergymen and administrators in the
Lagos.
The school began with six students, all boarders in a small, single story building called the 'Cotton House' at
Broad Street . The first pupils were destined to be clergymen. The curriculum included English, Logic, Greek, Arithmetic, Geometry, Geography, History, Bible Knowledge and Latin. The first principal of the school was the scholar and theologian Babington Macaulay , who served until his death in 1878. He was the father of Herbert Macaulay . When the British colony of Lagos was established in 1861, the colonial authorities obtained most of their African clerical and administrative staff from the school.

NIGERIA FIRST POLYTECHNIC

Yaba Higher College was founded in 1934
and, when the students were moved to Ibadan
to create the University of Ibadan in 1948 as
part of the Nigerian Ten-year Technical
Education Development Plan of 1944, the
college was founded as Yaba Technical
Institute, a technical successor institution, in
1947. The creation of the college was
facilitated by bringing together training
centres of public departments, including the
Lands and Survey Training Centre which
started in 1908, and those of the Marine which
started in 1928, the P.W.D. in 1931, the Post
and Telegraphs also in 1931 and the Railways
in 1942. The name was changed to the
current one ( YABATECH ) for the first time in 1963 following
requests from students. Research was added
to instruction and training in the objects of the
institution by the decree of 1969.[3] The name
was changed to Federal Polytechnic Yaba
in 1979, but changed back to the current one
in 1980.
The College was first called "Yaba College of Technology" through Decree 23 in 1969 and again, Decree 33 of 1979 re-named it "Federal Polytechnic Yaba". However, as a result of persistent pressure mounted on Government, in 1980, Government agreed to spare the original name of the College and it reverted to its old name of "Yaba College of Technology"

NIGERIA FIRST UNIVERSITY
The University of Ibadan which was founded in 1984 metamorphosed from the Yaba Higher College. The Yaba high college was founded in 1932 in Yaba, Lagos as the first tertiary educational institute in Nigeria. But in 1948, when the need for a University became pressing, the college staff were transferred to start the University of Ibadan as an external college of the University of London, and the college premises were used for the new Yaba College of Technology. Rt. Hon. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, first Prime Minister of independent Nigeria was the first Chancellor, while Kenneth Dike was the first Nigerian Vice chancellor of the university, after whom the University of Ibadan’s library is named. The University’s current Vice Chancellor is Isaac F. Adewole. Despite being the oldest, the University of Ibadan is ranked with the best Nigerian Universities at the moment.

Nigeria First Professor of Psychiatry
she began a career in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and mental health in 1986 at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan and subsequently had further residency training in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Lancaster Moor Hospital, Lancaster, and the Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn, in the United Kingdom. I also had training in Family Therapy at the Department of Family Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and was also a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Bipolar Research Unit. I was awarded a British Chevening Scholarship to study at the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds where I obtained a Masters in Public Health, with Distinction, in 1999. Through the University of Ibadan MacArthur Foundation-funded Staff Development Programme, I pursued further studies in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Greenwood Institute for Child Health, University of Leicester, UK in 2004.

Nigeria first professor of History
Professor bolanle Awe was born in Nigeria in 1933. She attended Holy Trinity School, Imofe- Ilesha , St James Primary School, Okebola, Ibadan , and St Anne's School, Ibadan. She took her A-levels at the Perse School in Cambridge. She went to St Andrews University in Scotland where she obtained a masters in history, before taking a doctorate in history at Oxford University . Awe then returned to Nigeria, where she became a lecturer at the
University of Ibadan .
She rose to be a professor at the same university. She was one of the historians who allowed their evidence to include oral traditions . This meant that she was able to trace back histories before the arrival of Europeans. She was also active in idetifying how the role of women in history was being overlooked and she co-founded the Women's Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC) to promote the coordination of women's studies research and new methodologies to study Nigerian women. In 1982 she was made an Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
On Christmas Day 1960 she married Olumuyiwa Awe. He would also become a professor and they would have children. Her husband died in 2013 at the age of 82. She was one of six people who assisted Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in founding the popular Nigerian confraternity National Association of Seadogs in 1952. There is some debate as to whether it was her or her future husband who were involved.
In 1998 she retired[4] and the following year the department of African studies published a small book about her. After her retirement she continued to research and in 2005 she became the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria in Nsukka .

Nigeria first professor of physical science
Prof. M. O. Ajisafe is the Vice-Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ph.D. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
Prof. M. Oluwafemi Ajisafe is a Professor of Sports Science at the College of Sciences at Afe Babalola University, Ado - Ekiti. He is a curriculum expert in Sports Science and a member of several accredited bodies and Professional Associations in Sports Science all over the world. His Bachelors , Masters and Doctorate degrees in Sports Science are from the United States of America.
His credentials and experience placed Nigeria in the Hall of fame in Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games when he was Chef De Mission to the Nigerian contingent.
He has to his credit 13 published books, 78 published articles in learned journals and 33 published conference papers also in internationally acclaimed journals.
He is a member of the Donald D Anthony Achievement Hall of fame, an honour given him by his Alma Mata, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio U.S.A. in 1993.
He is first in many things including:
First Nigerian Professor of Physical Education (Sports Science).
First Director of the National Institute for Sports, Lagos, Nigeria
Founder and First Head of the Physical & Health Education Dept in the University of Benin, Nigeria
First African/Nigerian to get a Doctorate Degree in Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. USA
First African/Nigerian Consultant (for 12 years) to the Youth General Authority of the State of Qatar
First Nigerian Chef De Mission to succeed in bringing home four Medals at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona
First UNIBEN Chairman Sports Committee to host NUGA Games in 1980
First Nigeria/African to be inducted into the Achievement Hall of Fame of the Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA, 1993
First Nigerian to be mandated to prepare the Curriculum for the West African School Certificate Physical Education Programme
First African Director for the International Council of Sports Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE)
First African Adviser to the International Council on National Youth Policy (ICNYP)
First Nigerian Expert in Physical Education Curriculum Studies
First Provost, College of Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
First Deputy Vice Chancellor, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
First Director of Sports, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
First Consultant General on Sports Development to the then 104 Universities in Nigeria. Appointed by the NUCs University Sports League
Presently the Vice Chancellor, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti

Nigeria First Professor of Philosophy
John Olubi Sodipo (October 15, 1935–December 4, 1999), he was a Nigerian philosopher. Educated at Remo Secondary School, Sagamu , 1948–53, the
University of Ibadan , 1956–1960, and at the Durham University, England , 1961–1964, Sodipo lectured in philosophy at the University of Lagos from 1966, and taught at the Obafemi Awolowo University from 1968 to 1982, where he became the first professor in
African philosophy and served as First Head of Department of Philosophy. He became the first Vice Chancellor for the Ogun State University when it opened in 1982.

oya oya keep it coming , let show this awon omo onirankiran that we are not their fathers mate .. let teach this mofos we are better off
shout out to all pigbo in the house .. please be careful of hypertension at this perilous time

please help me , am lost here ... abeg who is bulling who ? this one pass me oo

oya oya dey come foolish man ... aja ti yo ba sonu ko ni gbo fere olode...