Things You May Not Know About Our Beloved Country.
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 an MSc 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.
