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 and Syria.

Thanks op I got enlightened.

Later dangote go come dey lie say him from poor background. Him grandpapa was terribly rich sef.

ori e pe @Op

wa gbayi