Must See: Wow!! Rare & Sensitive Nigerian Historic Pictures & Facts

1. Nigerians are 1/5th the total population of Black Africa. 
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3. The Portuguese reached Nigeria in 1472. In 1880 the British began conquering Nigeria’s south. The north was conquered by 1903.
4. Yoruba and their bloodlines worldwide have the highest rate of twinning (having twins) in the world.
5. Activist Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti travelled widely, including to the Eastern bloc (Hungary, USSR and China where she met Mao Zedong). These interactions angered Nigeria, Britain and America. America called her a communist and refused her a U.S. Visa. 32. 
6. Travel Visa was not required to travel to the United Kingdom till 1984.
7. Obasanjo’s first term and Babangida’s regime oversaw the weakening of the naira.
8. Kumbwada in Kano today is ruled by Queen Hajiya Haidzatu Ahmed, who presides over up to half a million subjects. A throne curse which makes men sick and die, keeps males off the throne. {Sadly, the woman ruled Kumbwada is the least funded chiefdom in Nigeria}.
9.  Kumbwada in Kano today is ruled by Queen Hajiya Haidzatu Ahmed, who presides over up to half a million subjects. A throne curse which makes men sick and die, keeps males off the throne. {Sadly, the woman ruled Kumbwada is the least funded chiefdom in Nigeria}.
10. President Obasanjo graduated Abdulsalam who later became President and went on to hand over power to democratically arranged President Obasanjo.
11.  Nigeria is home to seven percent (7%) of the total languages spoken on earth. Taraba state alone has more languages than 30 African countries. The importance of this fact is appreciated when one understands that language is the “soul of culture” (as Ngugi wa Thiongo famously said). It is language that births the proverbs, riddles, stories and other aspects of culture that give us identity. UNESCO puts forward that the world’s languages represents an extraordinary wealth of creativity. Linguistic diversity correlates with cultural diversity. This means Nigeria can look inwards and drive itself to become the greatest hub for cultural tourism on earth, and consequently empower its citizens tremendously in the process.
12. The Jos Plateau Indigobird, a small reddish-brown bird, is found nowhere else on the planet but Plateau state, Nigeria.
13. Nigeria has the 4th largest number of doctors in the world. 
14. The Odu-Ifa is a form of Arithmetic Geomancy practiced by Yorubas for over 1500 years. The Odu-Ifa is a form of divination in which the will of the Gods is revealed through the manipulation of beads on checkered boards to the number of 256. 
15. The Yoruba States are some of the most powerful states in the early west African period; stretching from the present Nigerian interiors to modern day Benin.  
16. The Largest Church auditorium in the world is in Nigeria  ( Redeem Christian Church Of God)
17. The economy of Nigeria is greater than that of the rest of West Africa combined. 
18. Nigerian Millionaire, MKO Abiola sent 10M Dollars to Youeri Museveni to help topple the despot Idi Amin Dada. 
19. It has been said that Nigeria is home to probably the world’s largest diversity of butterflies. 
20. Nigeria is home to a rare species of monkey, the drill monkey, which is only found in Cross River National Park in Southeast Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea.
21. Ibadan (city in Southwestern Nigeria) was formerly called Eba-Odan, meaning a town at the edge of the forest.
22. Yaba virus (named after Yaba in Lagos State) causes Yaba tumours in monkeys.

1967 Biafra Home Built Armored Tank

Maryam Babangida(1948- 2009) First Lady, Fashionista and Women's Rights Actvist- in the 70's.
Born in Asaba, Delta State of Igbo/Hausa parentage she attended Queen Amina's College Kaduna. She later studied Secretaryship and Computer Science. In 1969 she married Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, a Military officer who later became President of Nigeria. She was Nigeria's First lady from 1988 till 1993 and is widely regarded as the most visible and active First lady to date. Maryam founded the Better Life for Rural Women's Programe and championed many Women's advancement causes. She was well known for her sartorial style and glamorous persona. Maryam died of Ovarian cancer in December 2009.

17 yr old Wole Soyinka. matriculation day at university college Ibadan 1952.

Young Olusegun Obasanjo being congratulated after completing his tour of duty in the Congo in 1961. Before Congo, Obasanjo had completed the 6 months Short Service Commission at the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, England. When Obasanjo joined the Nigerian Army in 1958 at age 21, he initially trained at the Regular Officers Special Training School, Teshie Ghana, before he was selected for the short course in England.

                                        

   

 

 

 

 

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti

Soldiers at Ibadan gate.

A Nigerian Football team without boots (1949).

Alhaji Ahmadu Bello being interviewed on TV prior to his departure to Mecca.

Cathedral Church of Christ Lagos, 1974. where we know today as CMS Bustop, Marina

Some of the prominent Nigerian leaders in their youth (Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ismail, Ibrahim Babangida, Mohammed Magoro and AB Ahmed) with their names written at the bottom.

A colonial officer carried by servants in Lagos, 1910.

Nigerian soldiers leaving Kaduna for a second tour of service with the United Nations in Congo.

British Troops showing off their precious loot after the Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897.

National stadium Surulere Lagos in the 70s.

King Duke IX of Calabar, (1895). The reason he always wore 2 crowns, one on top of the other was to show that he was crowned by the British as well as the EFIK people.

Picture taken after a hunting trip. Calabar, 1910.

Alake of Abeokuta (Egbaland) Oba Ladapo Ademola II arriving at the coronation of King George VI of England. London, May 1937.

Tarkwa bay Lagos in the 50s

Photo of a Tram line on Ebute Ero street Lagos (1913)

State house Marina built in 1886, was the residence of the head of state of Nigeria before 1967. I.E Balewa was kidnapped from that house and was never seen again.

What the Nigerian flag would look like today, if we never gained independence. Flag of the colony and Protectorate of Nigeria (1914-1960) situated in the top half of the picture.

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Nnamdi Azikiwe's political campaign in 1959

 

- Queen Elizabeth II with husband Philip and others visiting the Lagos Orthopedic Hospital (Igbobi), where the doctor explains the swimming pool therapy for polio and spastic cases, during ROYAL TOUR OF NIGERIA. 1956

Deportation of over 1million Ghanians and other African immigrants due to crisis. - FEB 1983