Historical Facts About Nigeria (PART 1)

Here are some very interesting facts about Nigeria.

    1.      1000AD – FIRST ISLAMIC SCHOOL STARTED IN BORNO

    2.      1450 – ARABIC SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED IN SOKOTO, KANO AND KADUNA
 

    3.      1472 – BENIN KINGDOM ESTABLISHED BY PORTUGUESE
 

    4.      1500 – ISLAMIC RELIGION STARTED IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

    5.      1777 – SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE ESTABLISHED

   6.      1802 – FULANI JIHAD WAS LAUNCHED UNDER USMAN DAN FODIO

    7.      1805 - USMAN DAN FODIO CONQUERED BORNO

      8.      1841 – METHODIST CHURCH ESTABLISHED AT BADAGRY LAGOS
 


     9.     1859 – FIRST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NIGERIA ESTABLISHED (CMS GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LAGOS)

 
   10.  1860 – FIRST NEWSPAPER IN NIGERIA PUBLISHED (IWE IROYIN)

   11.  1895 – FIRST NIGERIA HOSPITAL BUILT IN ABEOKUTA (SACRET HEART HOSPITAL)

   12.  1898 – THE NAME “NIGERIA” WAS GIVEN BY LADY LORDLUGARD

   13.  1861 – REV. SAMUEL AJAYI CROWDER ORDAINED AS THE FIRST BISHOP   14.  1891 - REV. SAMUEL AJAYI CROWDER DIED 


    15.  1899 – THE FIRST GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL ESTABLISHED IN BADAGRY, LAGOS

    16.  1901 – COMPLETION OF LAGOS-IBADAN RAILWAY LINE (123 MILES) 

     17.  1905 – COMPLETION OF FIRST MOTOR ROAD IN NIGERIA (IBADAN-OYO ROAD)

     18.  1906 – FEDERAL CAPITAL OF NIGERIA MOVED FROM CALABAR TO LAGOS

   19.  1914 – NOTHERN AND SOUTHERN NIGERIA AMALGAMATED   

     20.1918 – PAPER MONEY -CURRENCY- BECAME A LEGAL TENDER IN NIGERIA 

 

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