Did You Know
Did You Know
Explore Hidden Facts About Nigeria
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Nnamdi Azikiwe served as a spokesperson for Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.
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Nigeria’s mangrove forests are the largest in Africa and the third largest on earth?
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Nigeria currently has the most internet users in Africa.
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The largest library in West Africa is the Nnamdi Azikiwe Library at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Enugu State.
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There is a crater on Mars named after the Chafe LGA in Zamfara State.
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The first prison in Nigeria was established in 1872 and was located on Broad Street in Lagos.
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The River Niger is called orimili/orimiri (meaning "great water") in Igbo and Oya in Yoruba.
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The Chevy Volt was designed by Nigerian engineer Jelani Aliyu (originally from Sokoto State).
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Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, while serving as Health Minister, was responsible for the law mandating the display of a health warning on cigarette packaging in Nigeria.
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The humanitarian-aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières was established by French doctors who had volunteered their services during the Nigerian Civil War.
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Nigeria is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites (the Osun-Osogbo Grove in Osun State and the Sukur Cultural Landscape in Adamawa State).
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Currency notes and coins were first issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria on July 1, 1959. The denominations were the pound, ten shillings, and five shillings.
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Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State is the second largest university in Africa.
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The British Government gave the Royal Niger Company (later the United Africa Company, and now part of Unilever) £895,000 in exchange for revoking the trade charter it held from 1886 to 1900, essentially giving the British control of Nigeria.
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Nigeria's first political party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party, was founded by Herbert Macaulay on June 24, 1923.
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There is a high school in Kingston, Jamaica named after Calabar, the capital of Cross River State.
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Mungo Park, who is believed to be the first Westerner to have explored the central region of the River Niger, is buried in Jebba, Kwara State.
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The oldest fossil remains found in Nigeria (believed to date to 9000BCE) were excavated near Akure, the capital of Ondo State.
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Zamfara State is the only state in Nigeria without a university. The state is home to two polytechnics and a college of education.
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Zungeru in Niger State was the site at which the Northern and Southern Protectorates were amalgamated to form present-day Nigeria in 1914.
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The colonisation of Nigeria took over forty years for Britain to complete.
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The Jos Plateau Indigobird is found nowhere else on the planet but Plateau State, Nigeria.
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Bonny Camp in Lagos was named to commemorate the fall of Bonny, Rivers State in July 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War.
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Belief in the ‘mami wata’ spirit is held in countries such as Cuba (where it is called Yemanga) and Grenada (where it is called Mamadjo).