1. Nigeria, with a 2013 estimated population of 174,507,539 is the
most populous Black nation and the 7th most populated nation in the
entire world, trailing after—from least to most—Pakistan, Brazil,
Indonesia, USA, India and China (1.3bn).
2. Nigerians are 1/5th the total population of Black Africa.
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.
Okere Urhobo and Agbara Warri Performing the Ehonwhorhe dance …
4. The Portuguese reached Nigeria in 1472. In 1880 the British began
conquering Nigeria’s south. The north was conquered by 1903.
5. Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian Nobel laureate. He wrote ‘Telephone Conversation!’
6. With a net worth of $16.1bn, Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote is the richest Black person in the world.
7. Yoruba and their bloodlines worldwide have the highest rate of twinning (having twins) in the world.
8. The 2006 Census found Nigerians to be the highest educated ethnic or racial group in America.
9. The Northern knot, Arewa insignia has Christian origins,
investigation by Ibraheem A. Waziri revealed. It is adapted from the
Church Celtic knot.
10. 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.
Benin Bronze Head Stolen From Nigeria by British Soldiers
11. Pre-tribalism: John Umoru, from Etsako in today’s Edo State
(Western region) was elected for the House of Assembly to represent Port
Harcourt in the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly.
12. The Colonial Cantonments Proclamation of 1914 established
‘foreign quarters,’ ‘Sabon Gari,’ institutionalizing the Sabon Garuruwa
system of ‘foreigner’ residential segregation in Nigeria.
13. 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.
14. Saros was the name given to 19th and 20th century ‘Creole’ African literati migrants from Sierra Leone.
Nkpokiti Dance Group from Anambra state
15. Amaros was the name for repatriated Brazilian and Cuban slaves;
the ‘Aguda’ people of Lagos today. This Brazilian community includes
deportees of the brave “Malê Revolt” in Portugal.
16. British colonization was not all voluntary ‘happy slave trade,’
but involved brutal terror against non-cooperation and stiff opposition.
Captain Lord Esme Gordon Lenox, ‘With The West African Frontier Force,’
describes: “…we stormed down to Amassana, which was a town supposed to
be friendly and fined them 25 goats and 20 chickens for non-assistance,
then returned to Agbeni and burned half…October 1st was spent in
continuance of yesterdays incendiraism by burning every town or farm we
could see. I shudder to think of how many houses we have destroyed in
these two days. On our way back to Egbbeddi in the afternoon we passed
by Sabagreia and told our old friend Chief Ijor that most likely we
should burn down Sabagreia the next day…”
17. 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.
18. The population of Lagos today is about more than the total population of all Eastern states combined.
Nigerian school pupils
19. Lagos’ population in 1872 was 60,000. By 2015 it will be the third largest city in the entire world.
20. Nigeria’s north (719,000 sq. km), occupies 80% of Nigeria’s land mass. In size it is four times the South.
21. 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.
22. Gangsta: In 1984 under the disciplinary Buhari/Idiagbon
government, there was a sophisticated attempt to kidnap and repatriate
ex-civilian regime minister of transport, Umaru Dikko from the UK,
anesthetized in a freight crate, for the embezzlement of $1bn under the
Shagari regime.
Mother and child on the way from a primary health care centre in northern Nigeria
23. Valor: Part of the ‘Forgotten Army,’ Nigerians volunteered to
fight with the allied forces among the 81st and 82nd West African
Divisions, in the Second World War.
24. 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. One British was killed and rail and telegraph lines
destroyed. The British rewarded their soldiers with medals for quelling
the uprising. Awape Adediran a Molashin/ Kingmaker was imprisoned for
his active involvement.
25. 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.
26. Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, legendary Fela’s mother, was one of
the delegates that negotiated Nigeria’s independence in Britain.
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27. 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.
28. 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.
29. Kaduna Nzeogwu killed Sardauna in Nigeria’s first military coup.
30. In 1966, a mischievous Igbo owned bakery allegedly made a loaf of
bread with a label that depicted Nzeogwu as the Saint in the ‘Saint
George and the Dragon’ medieval tale, killing Sardauna, the ‘dragon,’
this labeled bread provoked deadly anti-Igbo riots.
31. Idrîs Aloma (1571-1603) King of Kanem-Bornu went on pilgrimage
and came across firearms. He brought some guns back, along with Turks to
train his army on how to use them.
Efik Women at the Calabar Festival, 2013
32. Travel Visa was not required to travel to the United Kingdom till 1984.
33. A brand new car sold for N2000 in 1975. A ticket to London was less than N100 in 1975.
34. In 1976, 75 kobo exchanged for one British Pound and 60 kobo for one US dollar.
35. A dollar was 90 kobo at the beginning of Babangida’s term in 1985.
36. Nigeria took its first loan from the World Bank in 1977.
37. Obasanjo’s first term and Babangida’s regime oversaw the weakening of the naira.
38. General Buhari and Idiagbon rejected IMF demands that Nigeria devalue its currency.
39. Babangida’s coup in 1985 was invaluable to the colonialists
suspected to have been in support as it led to Nigeria accepting SAP
restrictions, loans and crippling foreign monetary conditions.
40. 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.
Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State
41. Nigeria has the 4th highest number of poor, living under a dollar
a day in the entire world. 100 million are ‘destitute’ according to
figures from the NBS (National Bureau of Statistics).
42. Nigeria, the biggest economy in Africa is 160th out of 177 countries in HDI (Human Development Index).
43. Nigeria has the highest paid legislators in the entire world.
44. Based on amount squandered, of an income of $81 billion per year, Nigeria is the most corrupt nation in the world.
45. The nation with the most defrauded people, aka ‘mugus,’ in
history, is Nigeria. Successive administrations continue to loot a
greater percentage of the nation’s wealth, running in hundreds of
billions of dollars.
Nigeria | Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea
46. Nigeria in 2013 was rated the worst country to be born based on welfare and prosperity projection.
47. Aliko Dangote funded Presidents Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan’s
4th republic campaigns. Buhari rejected funding from Dangote.
48. Usman dan Fodio (1754–1817) was trained in classical Islamic
science, philosophy and theology and wrote over 100 books on society,
culture, religion, governance and politics. He could only declare Jihad
when he was made leader in Gudu {In Islam you can only declare Jihad if
you are an official Muslim leader}.
49. The Borno Empire rejected Dan Fodio’s colonization jihad. Al-Hajj
Muhammad al-Amîn ibn Muhammad al-Kânemî not only militarily defended
his Empire, but also did so by religious, theological, legal and
political debates, challenging why a Muslim Empire should colonize
another.
Irigwe Miango Dancers: This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon…
50. Kano history has it that a great warrior princess Magajiya Maimuna led her cavalry from Zaria to conquer Kumbwada.
51. 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}.
1967 Biafra Home Built Armored Tank
52. The Igbo ethnic group are the ‘Jews’ of Nigeria. Eager for a home
state and highly entrepreneurial; during the Biafra secession attempt
in the 60’s, this industrious people were already constructing
indigenous tanks and other weaponry.
53. There are several Nigerian officials in the government of English speaking The Gambia.
54. There is a Nigerian origin, Yoruba chief in Accra. Chief Brimah
is the only foreign Chief with a seat in the Ghanaian traditional
council.
Chief Brimah VII, Ghana
55. Cross River State: The Ejagham (Ekoi) people in the Southeast are
believed to have originated the Nsibidi (Nsibiri) writing system which
later spread to the Efik, Igbo, Ibibio, Efut, Banyang and Annag peoples.
56. Discovered in 1928, Nigeria’s North and North Central region
hosts West Africa’s oldest civilization; the Nok, which flourished
between 1000 BC and 300 BC. {Nok sculptures recently went on display
disappointingly in Germany (not Africa).}
57. Finished in 1460 the Benin Iya or moat is a historic world
defense wonder. Spanning 1,200 kilometers with walls as high as 18
metres, it is the world’s largest archeological structure.
Nigerian Army
58. Sungbo’s Eredo in Ogun state (6°49′N, 3°56′E) is a 100 mile
system of up to 70 ft trenches and walls around Ijebu-Ode. It’s Queen,
Bilkisu Sungbo has been attributed to the Biblical Queen Sheeba (Queen
Bilkis in Quran).
59. Lord Lugard estimated in 1904 that there were 170 walled towns
still in existence in the whole of just the Kano province of northern
Nigeria. He described Kano: ‘Commercial emporium of the western Sudan.’
Of its wall, he said, ‘I have never seen, nor even imagined, anything
like it in Africa.’
60. Osun: Queen Luwo, the twenty-first Ooni (ruler) of Ile-Ife paved
the streets with quartz pebbles—and broken pottery, in 1000AD. The
architecture had decorations that originated from Ancient America.
61. Borno: The capital city of Kanem-Borno, Ngazargamu, was one of
the largest cities in 1658 AD; the metropolis housed “about quarter of a
million people” and had 660 well planned, wide and unbending streets.
62. In 1246 AD the Kanemi of Borno created a sensation in Tunisia
when he sent a gift of a giraffe to Al-Mustapha, king of Tunis.
Tradition marriage in the Yoruba culture
63. Sokoto: Two-story buildings with constructions glazed with
tsoluwa, (laterite gravel), 10 mile circumference city walls, some as
high as 20 feet, is how 16th century Surame, a Sokoto metropolis created
by empire ruler, Muhammadu Kanta Sarkin Kebbi, was. UNESCO describes
Surame as “one of the wonders of human history, creativity and
ingenuity.”
64. Kano: In 1851, this city, one of the largest in Africa, made 10
million sandal pairs and 5 million hides for export every year.
Igbo Masquerades
65. Kebbi: Nigeria’s Sorko Sea lords of Kebbi state, made ships
(Kanta) which were used for far away expeditions, including the 1311 AD,
2000 ship, famous voyage of Songhai Empire’s Mansa Abubakari II to the
America’s, decades before Columbus.
66. Yobe: The oldest discovered boat in Africa, and 3rd oldest on the
world, the 8500 yr old Dufuna canoe was discovered by a Fulani herdsman
in 1987 in Dufuna village, Fune LGA.
67. Ondo: Confusing evolution scientists, the 13,000 yr old Iwo-Eleru
cave skull, the oldest human fossil remains found in West Africa, has
‘ancient’ (140,000 yr old Laetoli) features, yet lived in more modern
times.
68. Benin Kingdom: The high quality and highly sophisticated bronze
work of the Benin Kingdom dating as far back as the 13th century is a
world wonder. Great works in iron, wood, ivory, and terra cotta products
also highlight the empire’s history.
Igbo War Dance
69. Benin Kingdom: Lourenco Pinto, captain of a ship that carried
missionaries to Warri in 1619, described Benin kingdom, ‘Great Benin
where the king resides is larger than Lisbon, all the streets run
straight and as far as the eyes can see….’
70. Akwa Ibom: King Jaja of Opobo (1821–1891) founded Opobo
city-state in 1867 and shipped palm oil to Britain independently of
British middle men.
71. Ancient Greeks appear to have Nigerian roots as supported by the
Benin Haplogroup or Haplogroup 19. According to Jide Uwechia, ‘The Benin
Haplotype (which originates from Nigeria, West Africa) accounts for HbS
associated chromosomes in Sicily Northern Greece.’
72. Ilorin’s Oba Afonja utilized Fulani warriors to help rebel
against the Oyo Empire. The warriors after defeating Oyo took over
Ilorin and Sheikh Alimi, their leader’s son became the first Emir.
73. Much of north Nigeria was part of the Songhai Empire. Muhammad Kanta annexed Kebbi and other states between 1512 and 1517.
74. The Obasanjo military regime converted Nigeria from a Parliamentary system to a Presidential system of government.
75. Much of traditional pre-colonial Nigeria operated a parliamentary
form of government. The council of elders could make or impeach the
King.
76. General Johnson Thomas Umurakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi on 24 May 1966,
with Decree No. 34, dissolved Nigeria’s regions, creating provinces. He
unified Regional Public Services under a single Commission. Riots were
provoked in Kano and mutiny in Abeokuta; eventually there was a coup.
77. In 1967 Gowon split the four regions into 12 states.
78. Gowon’s Decree No. 8 of 1967 after the Aburi conference restored Nigeria as a confederacy.
79. Late President Murtala Muhammed’s dad, Pam Azatus Iyok was from
Dogon-Gaba, near Vom in Plateau state, Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Pam became
a Muslim and married Ramat from Kano. Murtala Muhammed’s wife, Hafsat
Ajoke was a Yoruba lady.
80. Ex- President Yakubu Gowon from Jos state (Middle Belt) is a
Christian. General Obasanjo was his Army chief who helped him defeat the
Biafra attempted secession from 1967-1970.
81. Nigeria has been ruled for 30 years by Christians (25 years if Azikiwe is excluded).
82. Mujahid Asari Dokubo, the leader of the southern Movement for
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and the most vocal enemy of the
north, is a Muslim.
83. Nigeria is not roughly divided between a Muslim north and a
Christian South. The far north, east and far south do have
concentrations, but the rest of the nation defies such demarcations.
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84. In the Southwest, Osun, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo have a higher
population of Muslims than Christians according to counts. Benue,
Nasarawa and Plateau in the north have Christian majorities.
85. According to the Senate joint committee, Nigeria’s chief
terrorist leader, Abubakar Shekau is not a Nigerian; he hails from Niger
republic. {Shekau is believed by security services to be deceased.}
86. According to current demographics, after Hausa-Fulani (29%),
Yoruba (21%), Igbo (18%) and Ijaw (10%) comes Kanuri (4%) and then
Ibibio (3.5%) and Tiv (2.5%).
87. Not really a northern caucus, but it was late M. K. O. Abiola
that orchestrated and sponsored the Buhari /Idiagbon coup and then again
the Babangida coup overthrow of Buhari. –Shagari memoir, “Beckoned to
Serve;” Babangida, “Karl Maier – Midnight in Nigeria.” (Max Siollun)
88. The leading caucus is basically a childhood friendship: President
Obasanjo was childhood friends with President Babangida, President
Abacha and Commander Danjuma.
89. President Babangida was childhood friends with President Abdulsalam.
Aso Rock viewed from Aso Villa, the seat of Power in Nigeria, Abuja
90. President Obasanjo graduated Abdulsalam who later became
President and went on to hand over power to democratically arranged
President Obasanjo.
91. Under the Presidential system, Nigerians have had 7 years total Northern rule and 11+ years Southern rule.
92. Total civilian rule, Parliamentary and Presidential, Nigeria has had 12 years Northern and 11+ years Southern rule.
Nigerian Police on Parade
93. 6 coups is the highest number of any nation in Africa. Nigeria
along with Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mauritania are the nations
with 6 coups.
94. The Biafra war included a ‘Mid West invasion.’ The Midwest was
either a battle field or in Biafra’s sights—Dr. Nowamagbe A. Omoigui
relays.
ASUANJ’s inaugural masquerade in Ikebukuro. Photo by Dreux Richard
95. The Biafra 12th battalion headed by Lt Col Victor Adebukunola Banjo captured Benin and set out to capture Ibadan and Lagos.
96. The Biafra 13th battalion, led by Ivenso entered Kwara, now Kogi and captured Okene, Atanai and Iloshi.
97. Cameroon was an administrative part of Nigeria in 1945, hence the
NCNC party (National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons). Towards
independence the UN mandated British held former German territory, south
Cameroon opted to join French Cameroon and not Nigeria.
98. J.C. Vaughn, Ernest Ikoli, H.O. Davies, Obafemi Awolowo and Sam
Tsuiuel Akinsanya founded the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) in 1934 to
promote national unity particularly between Yoruba and Igbo.
99. Azikiwe left Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) because he claimed the
organization had been seized by Yoruba’s and it discriminated against
Igbo’s including himself.
100. Oyo defeats Ashanti: In 1764 the Ashanti army marched on
Dahomey, Togo. At Atakpamé, the Ashanti army was ambushed and sacked by
Dahomean infantry and female elite soldiers allied with forces from the
Oyo Empire. Ashanti King Kusi Obodum was destooled after the defeat.
2015 was a very important year for Linux, 
I
have not played with Solus much, but it does look promising. Solus is
actually not a “new” OS. It has been around for a while in different
forms and names. But the entire project was revived back in 2015 under
this new name.
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