2. Nigerians are 1/5th the total
population of Black Africa. And the highest paid legislators in the world with
25% of our budget as salaries to our legislators.
3. Nigeria, with 521 languages has the fourth most in the
world. This includes 510 living languages, two second languages without native
speakers and 9 extinct languages.
4. The Portuguese reached Nigeria in 1472. In 1880 the
British began conquering Nigeria’s south. The north was conquered by 1903.
5. With a net worth of $16.1bn, Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote is
the richest Black person in the world.
6. The 2006 Census found Nigerians to be the highest
educated ethnic or racial group in America.
7. Pre-tribalism: Malam Umaru Altine, a northern Fulani man
was the first elected Mayor of Enugu, in the east, and was even re-elected for
a second term.
8. Crispin Curtis Adeniyi-Jones (1876-1957) who the street
in Ikeja, ‘Adeniyi-Jones’ was named after, was a medical director from Sierra
Leone (a Saro). As a co-founder of NNDP, he won one of the Lagos 3 legislative
council seats in 1923 and represented Nigerians for 15 yrs.
9. Nigeria’s
population was just 16 million in 1911. It is projected to hit 444 million by
2050, surpassing the US and becoming the 4th largest in the world.
10. The population of Lagos today is about more than the
total population of all Eastern states combined. Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, legendary Fela’s
mother, was one of the delegates that negotiated Nigeria’s independence in
Britain.
11. Nigeria’s north (719,000 sq. km), occupies 80% of
Nigeria’s land mass. In size it is four times the South.
12. 1st republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi
hid former South African President, Nelson Mandela, for six months in Nigeria
to evade his arrest by the apartheid regime.
13. The Adubi war in 1918 was a major uprising by 30,000
Abeokuta Ebga warriors against the colonial government for colonization,
taxation and slave labor.
14. Nigeria has 5 of the 10 richest pastors in the entire
world, with net worth’s according to Forbes, from $10-150 million. They are
Pastors, David Oyedepo, E. A. Adeboye, Chris Oyakhilome, Mathew Ashimolowo and
Temitope Joshua.
15. Once upon a time, the north was the more literate part
of Nigeria. According to Lord Luggard, there were 25,000 Qur’anic Arabic
schools with about 250,000 pupils in the north.
16. Sardauna of Sokoto said he preferred foreign workers to
Igbo’s because he felt Igbo’s are domineering. This was while Nigeria existed
as regions with regional administrations.
17. Kaduna Nzeogwu killed Sardauna in Nigeria’s first
military coup which took place on Jan. 15th 1966
18. Travel Visa was not required to travel to the United
Kingdom till 1984. A brand new car sold for N2000 in 1975. A ticket to London
was less than N100 in 1975.
19. In 1976, 75 kobo exchanged for one British Pound and 60
kobo for one US dollar. A dollar was 90 kobo at the beginning of Babangida’s
term in 1985.
20. Nigeria took its first loan from the World
Bank in 1977. Obasanjo’s first term and Babangida’s regime oversaw the
weakening of the naira.
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