55 FACTS ABOUT NIGERIA You Will Be Shocked To Find Out That You Do Not Know 99% Of This Do you know that? 1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million. 2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt. 3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of Death”. 4. There are 196 countries in the world and at least one Igbo person from Nigeria lives in every one of them. 5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both country’s ships traded slaves from the Bight of Benin. 6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina. 7. Odimegwu Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at Regul
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FACTS ABOUT AFRICA 1. The Gambia has only one university. 2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only Spanish speaking country. 3. South Africa is the most visited African country. 4. Nigeria has the richest Black people in Africa. 5. Samuel Eto’o is the highest paid Footballer of all time, he received about £350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011. 6. A person from Botswana is called a Motswana, the plural is Batswana. 7. A person from Lesotho is called a Mosotho. 8. A person from Niger is called a Nigerien. 8. A person from Burkina Faso is called a Burkinabe. 9. Nigeria has won more football cups than England. 10. Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the world’s most educated President with 7 degrees, two of them are Masters. 11. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest football club in Africa. 12. Didier Drogba is Chelsea’s highest goal scorer in European competitions. 13. Johannesburg, South Africa, is the most visited city in Africa. 14. Zined
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THE PLACE OF INFORMATION (4) The truth is that it is not just being informed that matters but being informed with the right information. I would have been wallowing in pain each time I went for lectures because I was wrongly informed. It is true I had some information about how the shuttle services in my school operate but that information was not the right one. Quality information is the cure to sweatless achievements. The more the quality of the information you possess are, the higher the tendency of a sweatless pursuit. Go for QUALITY information! Sometimes, getting the right information might require that you travel a long distance or engage in an inconvenient activity. This is where most people usually shy away. They see this exercise as a waste of time. They do not consider its result. They also do not consider the immense potentials inherent in it. You can do so much when you are rightly informed. In whatever vocation or endeavour you may find yourself,
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THE PLACE OF INFORMATION (3) The farther I go in life, the more I appreciate the invaluable benefits of being informed. My daily experiences have unveiled numerous possibilities inherent in the acquisition of quality information. One of the memorable experiences that led to my daily pursuit for quality information and hatred for ignorance took place last year in February 2013. After gaining admission in the University of Cape Town, it is normal to be excited about it. However, my excitement was cut short because I was yet to complete my registration; hence, I had not gotten a student’s ID card (which is the official proof that you are a student of any school). Anyone that is familiar with UCT knows that the Main Campus is structured into three campuses (Lower, Middle and Upper). To get to the Upper Campus, you will go through Lower and Middle Campus, especially if you are coming from Mowbray/Rondebosch axis. As a new student, that was the only r
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THE PLACE OF INFORMATION (2) Our society today is knowledge-driven. To fit in, you must possess a ‘considerable amount’ of knowledge. You must understand that you determine this ‘considerable amount’. There are so many variables that can affect your ability of amassing information but always you are the constant . Variables will always change but constants remain the same. Therefore, every individual, to a very large extent, determines the amount of knowledge the possess. Also, the quality of the information you possess determines your placement in the society. Nothing increases frustration like ignorance. Like the popular maxim, if you are not informed, you are deformed. Information keeps you from being deformed. Hence, we can say the information is the cure for deformation. A deformed individual is one whose mind has been maimed, disfigured, impaired, spoiled and marred . Such a person lacks the power to think creatively. In that situation, the
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THE PLACE OF INFORMATION The development of a nation is directly proportional to the mental strength of its people. A people with creative mental ability produce a developed nation. Hence, the destiny of a nation lies in the hands of its people. No nation can build itself. It is the responsibility of its people to build it. Suffice me to say that any under-developed nation has itself to blame and the developed nations have their people to thank. In the light of the above, we can simply assert that our mental capacity as a people has kept Africa the way it is currently. One of the ways of going forward and developing this continent of ours is for us to fill our mind with the right information. Information in this context can be seen as knowledge. No person can act beyond what they know. In fact, the difference between two or more individuals in simply the quality of information they possess. The more quality the knowledge you possess is, the more