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Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:44pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Hello Readers, Nigeria as you all know is a blessed country but how much do you know about it? Here are some wonderful facts 3 Likes 5 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:44pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
1. The Walls of Benin (800-1400AD), in present day Edo State, are the longest ancient earthworks in the world, and probably the largest man-made structure on earth. They enclose 6500 square kilometers of community lands that connected about 500 communities. At over 16000km long, it was thought to be twice the length of the Great Wall of China, until it was announced in 2012 (after five years of meticulous measurement by Chinese surveyors) that the Great Wall is about 21,000km long. 45 Likes 6 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:45pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
3. The Yoruba tribe has the highest rate of twin births in the world. Igbo-Ora, a little town in Oyo state, has been nicknamed Twin capital of the World because of its unusually high rate of twins that is put as high as 158 twins per 1000 births. In a video I watched last year on YouTube presented by Titi (a white lady who speaks Yoruba), and which was centred on twin births in Igbo-Ora, one of the locals boasted that every family in the town has at least one twin! 64 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:46pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
4. Africa’s oldest known boat is The Dufuna canoe which was discovered in Dufuna village, Yobe state, by a Fulani Herdsman in May 1987, while he dug a well. Various radio-carbon tests conducted in laboratories of reputable universities in Europe and America indicate that the canoe is over 8,000 years old, thus making it the oldest in Africa and 3rd oldest in the world. The discovery of the canoe has completely changed accepted theories of the history and sophistication of marine technology in Africa. 25 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:47pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
5. The Anambra waxbill, a small bird of many beautiful colours, is found only in Southern Nigeria and nowhere else on earth. 130 Likes 5 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:48pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
6. The Jos Plateau Indigobird, a small reddish-brown bird, is found nowhere else on the planet but Plateau state, Nigeria. 73 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:50pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
And finally: Nollywood industry has been ranked the 3rd biggest in the world. ![]() 42 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 3:51pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Lalasticlala, Mynd44... Over to you. More @ nairafacts..com 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairafacts: 4:12pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
A brand new car was also sold for N2000 in 1975. Geez! 46 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by ReneeNuttall(f): 4:29pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
I love Edo people, especially the binis with all my heart.Great people. 34 Likes |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by kay29000(m): 5:48pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
I need to go to that town that has the highest number of twins maybe I can find a wife there... I love twins. And about that Great Wall of Benin... Someone needs to get aerial view pictures of the wall. 21 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by IMASTEX: 5:49pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Okay |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by RIPEnglish: 5:49pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Op, how will this went to change the presently current hardships we are faced in the country? ![]() 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 5:49pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by clevadani: 5:50pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Do you also know that Nigeria is the corruption capital of the world? 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 5:50pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Another fact - Nigerians survive virtually in any country in the world ! There is no country in the world u wont see a Nigerian ![]() Nigeria has the best social media army in the world You wouldn't want to start a fight ![]() 104 Likes 12 Shares
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Turks: 5:50pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
We don’t value these relics anymore. Everyone is busy chasing money. 17 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by boman2014: 5:50pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
cool |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by AlfaSeltzer(m): 5:51pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
They all go to school but prefer to be ruled by illiterate. 21 Likes |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by MRAKBEE(m): 5:51pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Naija 1 Like |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Safiaa(f): 5:51pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Gkay1(m): 5:52pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
no Wahala. |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 5:52pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Nigeria is the@only country that can use weed to cook soup...the one my friend gave me to shack make me sleep sotey i tire for the sleep ![]() ![]() 6 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by donblade85555(m): 5:53pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
nice 2 kn |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by orobs93(m): 5:53pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
ReneeNuttall:will u marry me am bini 2 Likes |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 5:53pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
UP MY COUNTRY.
I LOVE NIGERIA 1 Like 2 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by cstr1000: 5:53pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
That is all? For a nation of 180 million? I was expecting things like Africa's'' highest number of nobel prize winners, the biggest electronics manufacturers in Africa, the biggest fertilizer producer in the world, e.t.c 13 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 5:53pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
legitimatefrank1:Coming from a ganja man 5 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Bonjoro: 5:53pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
chimdi200: U go die of hunger, change hustle.... pplp don jah on this forum na. 9 Likes |
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by drake49(m): 5:54pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
na the Edo state I dey for some years now oh. male una come show me where that wall dey 7 Likes 2 Shares |
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