In Lagos in 1865 one bag of 20,000 cowry shells was exchanged for one or two English Pounds.
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Independence Building in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, was designed to be the tallest building in Nigeria at the time of the country’s independence.
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Legendary Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti briefly worked as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
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Freedom Park on Lagos Island was once the site of a prison.
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The Super Falcons have won the African Women's Championship eight times out of ten.
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Shehu Musa Yar’Adua was the youngest African to be made a Major General at the age of 36.
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“Arise, O Compatriots,” Nigeria’s national anthem, was the outcome of a writing competition in 1978. The lyrics were culled from the top five entries.
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In 1979, His Royal Majesty, Benjamin Ikenchukwu Keagborekuzi 1, the Dein of Agbor Kingdom in Delta State of Nigeria became the world’s youngest crowned head. He was only 28 months old at the time of his coronation.
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The Niger Delta (which is the second largest delta on the planet), has the highest concentration of monotypic fish families in the world.
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Usman dan Fodio (1754-1817) was an Islamic scholar, philosopher and theologian who wrote over 100 books.
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The Dufuna Canoe, discovered around the River Yobe in 1987, is approximately 8000 years old.
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Kumbwada in Kano has always been ruled by a woman. Its present ruler is Queen Hajiya Haidzatu Ahmed.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is on the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo have a combined total of 88 million speakers.
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Google Translate now features functionality in the three main Nigerian languages.
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Nojim Maiyegun was the first Nigerian to win an Olympic medal. He won the bronze medal in the men’s boxing Light Middleweight category at the 1964 Games in Tokyo.
