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19 unusual facts about Nigeria


Buji

Buji, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria

E. M. L. Endeley

Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley (1916–1988) was a Cameroonian politician who led Southern Cameroonian representatives out of the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly in Enugu and negotiated the creation of the autonomous region of Southern Cameroons in 1954.

East Central State

It was created on 27 May 1967 from parts of the Eastern Region and existed until 3 February 1976, when it was divided into two states - Anambra and Imo.

Emmanuel Chuka Osammor

He received primary education from Idah primary Catholic School and later attended St Patrick's College, Asaba, graduating in 1957.

Fika

Fika, Nigeria a town and an area in the state of Yobe, in Nigeria

George A. Garrick

His grandfather was a Sierra Leone Creole catechist in Brass, Nigeria called J.D. Garrick.

Gregory Ngaji

Before being elected to the Senate, he was Chairman of the Yala Local Government Area, and he served as a member of the Constitutional Conference (1994–1995).

Gwilliam Iwan Jones

His photographs of life in Nigeria in the 1930s, taken whilst serving as a colonial civil servant, led to an interest in ethnology and a second career as an academic at the University of Cambridge.

Muhammadu Ribadu

The son of a district head from Adamawa's Balala district, he was educated early on at a Koranic school before proceeding to the middle school at Yola.

Niger Basin Authority

Nine nations which include part of the Niger Basin are members: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

Osun State University

Osun State University is a multi-campus university established by the Osun State of Nigeria.

Rabih az-Zubayr

Wanting to modernize his army, Rabih and attempted in 1895 to make an accord with British Royal Niger Company in Yola and Ibi so to obtain gunpowder and ammunition, but without success.

Reparations for slavery

A paper Presented to the First Pan-African Congress on Reparations, Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, 27-29 April 1993.

Saul Weigopwa

Saul Weigopwa (born June 14, 1984 in Song, Nigeria) is a Nigerian athlete, who specializes in the 400 m, where his personal best is 45.00s (a result he has achieved twice).

Sulyman Age Abdulkareem

Sulyman Age Abdulkareem is a professor of chemical engineering and vice chancellor of Al-Hikmah University in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Wase

Wase, Nigeria, a town and Local Government Area (LGA) in Plateau State, Nigeria

Western Region, Nigeria

Upon that union became matured in 1960, it became one of the members of the federation, along with the Eastern Region and the Northern Region.

Wukari Federation

The competition takes place at the Nwonyo lake, said to have been discovered in 1816 by the founder of Ibi, Buba Wurbo, and the first public festival was held during the reign of Abgumanu II (1903–1915).

Zango

Zango, Nigeria, a local government area in Katsina State, Nigeria


A Quiver Full of Arrows

Eduardo is in Nigeria hoping to receive the contract for building the city of Abuja while Manuel is here for a port contract.

Abraham Adesanya

Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya (July 24, 1922 in Ijebu Igbo - 27 April 2008) was a Nigerian politician, lawyer, activist, welfarist, aristocrat and liberal progressive.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Nwaubani was one of the pioneer editorial staff of Nigeria’s now defunct NEXT newspapers, established by Pulitzer-winning journalist, Dele Olojede.

ADC Airlines

ADC Airlines was a Nigerian airline owned by Aviation Development Company plc and headquartered in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria.

Alice Koroma

Also in attendance at the funeral in the Wesleyan Church in Makeni included Christians and Muslims religious leaders, senior Sierra Leone Police officers, including Inspector General of the Sierra Leone Police Francis Alieu Munu, and members of the international delegations, mainly from West Africa including the First Lady of Nigeria Patience Jonathan.

Aliyu Modibbo Umar

In March 2007, speaking at the official commissioning of the Human Capital Development Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos, Aliyu Modibbo Umar said that Nigeria should take advantage of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which was signed into Law on May 18, 2000, by US President Bill Clinton.

Bakassi

The decision was reportedly made at a meeting on 2 July 2006 and The Vanguard newspaper of Nigeria reported the decision to secede.

Buildstruct Nigeria Ltd


It is known for constructing some of Nigeria's infrastructure including the Royal Tropicana Hotel in Kano and the Yola Airport Control tower.

Chelsea Hammond

Because of a major circumstance, she was consequently joined with Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare, who finished behind her in the overall rankings by just a single meter difference.

Cross River National Park

The Cross River National Park is a national park of Nigeria, located in Cross River State, Nigeria.

D. W. Sargent

Daniel Wycliffe Sargent (b. July 22, 1850, Birmingham, England. Died October 12, 1902, in Nigeria) was an early explorer of Africa, Agent General of the British Government who signed treaties with many African chiefs which allowed the British to establish the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.

Eurytela alinda

It is found in Nigeria (the southern part of the country and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Federal Government Girls College Owerri

Federal Government Girls College is one of the secondary schools in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.

First Liberian Civil War

The Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 and ended in October 2003, when ECOWAS intervened to stop the rebel siege on Monrovia and exiled Charles Taylor to Nigeria until he was arrested in 2006 and taken to The Hague for his trial.

George Ashiru

George was educated in Nigeria and Britain and studied in diverse schools like Irwin Academy (UK), Ijebu Ode Grammar School, Nigeria, Federal Government College, Kaduna, Nigeria, University of Lagos and Middlesex University (UK).

Gummel

Gumel, or Gummel, a town and traditional emirate in Jigawa State, Nigeria

Heineken Lokpobiri

After Nigeria performed poorly at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana, the Senate Sports Committee of which Lokpobiri was chairman issued a report which cast blame on maladministration and lack of cooperation from the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Amos Adamu.

Ibore

Ibore is an ancient city located in northern part of Esan an ethnic group in Edo state, Nigeria.

Idanre Forest Reserve

Idanre Forest Reserve is in Idanre local government area of the Nigerian state of Ondo, in the south-west part of the country.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

Jeta Amata

Jeta’s latest film, Black November was premiered at the United Nations during the General Assembly in 2012 and was also screened at the Kennedy Center as well as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The film inspired sponsoring of a bi-partisan resolution on the Niger Delta of Nigeria members of the 112th United States Congress, H.CON.RES.121.

Kalakuta Republic

The song was popular in Nigeria, upsetting then President General Olusegun Obasanjo.

Kali Gwegwe

He is also reputed to have been the first Nigerian to bring a youth team from Europe (Holmlia Sports Club of Oslo, Norway) to participate in a local football competition in Nigeria.

Kingsley Udoh

Nigeria's manager Berti Vogts cited his inclusion as a way of gaining valuable experience.

Mahmoud El-Gohary

He is the first and one of two people, along with Nigeria's Stephen Keshi, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.

Marine F.C.

The ground's current capacity is 3,185, of which 389 are seated, but in 1949, Marine played host to Nigeria at Rossett Park, and the crowd on that day was over 4,000.

Mohammed Bello Adoke

Barrister Mohammed Bello Adoke, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (born 1 September 1963) was appointed Nigerian Attorney General and Minister of Justice on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet.

Mourad Sahraoui

At the 2007 All-Africa Games he fought at heavyweight and defeated David Assiene of Cameroon and Abdelaziz Toulbini of Algeria in the first rounds and then Lateef Kayode of Nigeria in the final.

Nafata of Gobir

Sultan Nafata of Gobir (r.1797–98), one of a series of rulers of the small Hausa state, today in northern Nigeria.

Navasota discipunctella

It was described by Hampson in 1918, and is known from Nigeria (including Minna, the type location).

Nigeria Airways Flight 357

Nigeria Airways Flight 357 was a passenger flight from Yola to Lagos, with stops at Jos Airport in Jos and Kaduna Airport in Kaduna.

Onyekachi Okonkwo

Onyekachi Donatus Okonkwo or simply Tico (born 13 May 1982 in Aba, Nigeria) is a Nigerian football (soccer) midfielder who currently plays for South African side Mpumalanga Black Aces.

Owu kingdom

The 2010 festival was attended by Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II, former President of Nigeria, Balogun of Owu Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Mike Oghiedome, former Governor and Field Commander of ECOMOG, Rtd General Tunji Olurin.

Peter Garlake

Peter Garlake (1934 - 2 December 2011) was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria.

Raffia palm

The raffia palm is important in societies such as that of the Province of Bohol in the Philippines, Kuba of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nso of Cameroon, the Igbo and Ibibio/Annang of southestern, the Urhobo and Ijaw people of Niger delta Nigeria and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria, among several other West African ethnic nations.

Reuben Abati

Reuben Abati, born November 7, 1965 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria.

Ryu Seung-Woo

On 27 June 2013, Ryu was injured and substituted during South Korea's final game of the group stage against Nigeria, forcing him to miss out their Round of 16 match against Colombia, and subsequently, their Quarter-final loss against Iraq.

Saharan languages

The Saharan languages are a small family of languages spoken across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria.

Shola Ameobi

Born in Zaria, Nigeria to a family from Ijumu Local Government Area in modern day Kogi State, Ameobi moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England when he was five.

Sobo language

Urhobo language, an Edoid language spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria

Solomon Okoronkwo

In October 2004, his agent recommended Okoronkwo to coach Samson Siasia and he was fundamental for Nigeria's U-20 qualifying for the African Youth Championship in Benin 2005.

Southeastern Nigeria

Before Nigeria became a country through British colonial government, Southeastern Nigeria was a home to many ethnic groups such as the Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ekoi, etc.

Swaran Singh

He was a member of the eminent persons group on South Africa sponsored by the Commonwealth Institute that consisted of Malcolm Fraser who had been Prime Minister of Australia for eight years, General Obasanjo of Nigeria, Lord Barber who had been Edward Heath's Chancellor of the Exchequer and was also chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank, Dame Nita Barrow, Reverend Scott and John Malecela, a Tanzanian former government minister.

Tarokoid languages

The five Tarokoid languages are a branch of the Plateau family spoken in central Nigeria, just north of the middle reaches of the Benue River.

Toyin Raji

Augustine Masilela of South Africa made the cut in 10th place, denying Raji the chance of becoming Nigeria's first Miss Universe semifinalist.

Werewoman

In late nineteenth century Asaba, in the Igbo region of what is now Nigeria, witches were often thought to be werewomen, and a close connection was thought to exist between all women and witchcraft.

William Fontaine

The next year, he traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, where he celebrated the inauguration of his classmate, Nnamdi Azikiwe as Governor General.

Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed

Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is a Nigerian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007, and was elected Senator for Kaduna North, in Kaduna State, Nigeria in April 2011 running on the Congress for Progressive Change ticket.