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4 unusual facts about Calabar


Bulbophyllum porphyrostachys

Although the distribution of B. porphyrostachys is widespread; from Southern Nigeria (in Okuma, Sapoba and Usonigbe Forest Reserves, and in Calabar) to Cameroon (specifically on Mount Cameroon) and Congo-Brazzaville; it is found only sporadically, as either an epiphyte, or a lithophyte (on lava rock).

Louis Edet

He was born in Calabar to the family of Edet Essien and Geraldine Orok.

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control

The designation of Calabar and Apapa sea ports, Murtala Muhammed and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airports as exclusive ports of entry for the importation of drugs and pharmaceutical raw materials.

Solomon Elimimian

Solomon Elimimian (born October 21, 1986 in Calabar, Nigeria) is a Canadian football linebacker for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.


Bida

Bida is not only occupied by northerners, it is also a place with vast tribes like Igbo, yoruba, Hausa, igala, Urhobo, Calabar and other tribes inclusive.

Calabar angwantibo

The Calabar angwantibo, along with its close relative the potto, makes an appearance in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.

Calabar bean

Mrs. Barbara Franklin was poisoned by the Calabar bean in Curtain, the last novel both for the author Agatha Christie and her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.

Calabar Kingdom

Akwa Akpa, a city state of the Efik people based on what is now the city of Calabar

Domingos Fernandes Calabar

The composer Chico Buarque, along with Ruy Guerra, made in 1973 a play entitled: "Calabar: The Praise of Treason" where he first traitor to the condition of Calabar was revisited.

Emmanuel Essien

Essien studied Electrical/Electronics Engineering at the College of Technology, Calabar (1975 - 1977), the University of Ife (1977 - 1978) and Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, graduating in 1982 with a degree in Civil Engineering.

Igbo people in Jamaica

The primary ports from which the majority of these enslaved people were taken from were Bonny and Calabar, two port towns that are now in south eastern Nigeria.

Mary Howe

“Heroines of Service”- includes music of Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams

Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Cross River

The Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Cross River comprises three Senators representing Cross River North, Cross River South, and Cross River Central, and eight Representatives representing Calabar Munincipal/Odukpani, Ogoja/Iyala, Ikom/Boki, Yakurr/Abi, Bekwarra/Obudu/Obanliku, Akpabuyo/Bakassi/Calabar South, Akamkpa/biase, and Obubra/ Etung.

Nigerian traditional rulers

For example, there had been two rulers of the Efik people in the area around Calabar, but in December 1970 it was agreed to combine the office into a single one that was to be held by a ruler known as the Obong.

Onwuchekwa Jemie

He was born in Abia State, Nigeria and was educated at the Hope Waddell Training Institution at Calabar.

Tatuagem

"Tatuagem" (English: Tattoo) is a poem written by the Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer Chico Buarque de Holanda and the Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor Ruy Guerra, for the stageplay Calabar (1972–1973).


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