Did you know....

1. Nigerian staple food cassava was brought to West Africa from Brazil by the Portuguese.

2· Queen Elizabeth II is the only person who travels to any country without an International Passport.

3· The Naira, Nigeria’s currency, was named by Obafemi Awolowo.

4· The name"Nigeria" was coined by Flora Shaw, the wife of Lord Lugard, Nigeria's Governor-General from 1914 to 1919.

5· The city of Port Harcourt (capital of Rivers State) was named after Lewis Vernon Harcourt in 1913 by Frederick Lugard. It was originally known as Iguocha.

6· President Robert Mugabe is Africa’s oldest Head of State and the world’s second oldest Head of State. He was born in 1924.

7· Ebun House, located at 85 Odunfa Street, was the first three- story building built in Lagos. It was constructed in 1914.

8· The CMS Grammar School in Lagos, Nigeria is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria. It was founded on June 6, 1859

9· The letter 'i' that Apple uses (in their products iPhone, iPad, iMac, iPod) stands for "Interactive".

10. There is a town in Jamaica called ABEOKUTA. It was founded by former slaves from present-day Ogun State who were brought to a plantation in that part of Jamaica.

11· Edward James Roye, the fifth president of Liberia, was of Igbo descent.

12· There is a high school in Kingston, Jamaica named CALABAR High School, after the capital of Cross River State.

13· There are 3 things the Human Brain cannot resist noticing –Food, Attractive People and Danger.

14· The first book written in the Igbo language (Isoama-Ibo: A Primer) was by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the renowned Yoruba/ Creole bishop?

15· In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India". In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called"Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.

For the sake of those that don't know
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