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30 Shocking Facts About Nigerian Leaders Since 1960

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November 23, 2024

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Below are 30 shocking facts about Nigerian leaders since 1960.

30 Facts About Nigerian Leaders

1. To date, no Nigerian President/Head of State has been born in or after 1960, the year Nigeria got its independence.

2. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is the only President whose exact year of birth is unknown and the only president to lose his wife, Stella, while in office…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

3. Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan are the only Nigerian Vice Presidents to ever become presidents of the country.

4. Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari are the only people in Nigeria’s history to rule as both military Heads of State and Civilian Presidents.

5. The two Presidents who succeeded Obasanjo, first as Head of State in 1979 and as President in 2007, did not complete their tenures.

6. These two presidents were North-Westerners; Presidents Shehu Shagari (Sokoto State) and Umaru Yar’Adua (Katsina State).

7. While soldiers were dying at the battlefront during the Nigerian civil war, Yakubu Gowon got married in Lagos. He is the youngest Head of State at 32 years old and the first to get married while in power. He also ruled the longest (uninterrupted) for 9 years.

8. Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello was killed with his wife in 1966 by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu. His great-grandfather was the great jihadist from Sokoto, Uthman Dan Fodio. The largest university in West Africa is named after him.

9. Of the four major founding fathers, Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, was the only one who had one wife. She lived till 98.

10. Alvan Ikoku (the man on the 10 naira note) and his son, Samuel, were political enemies.

11. Alhaji (Sir) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was not supposed to be Prime Minister in 1959, but Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello (as the leader of the NPC). He gave Balewa the position and referred to him as “my lieutenant in Lagos”.

12. Herbert Heelas Samuel Macaulay (the man on the 1 naira note) was the first Nigerian civil engineer and the first to start a political party in Nigeria, NNDP. He was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther.

13. Generals Murtala Mohammed and Sani Abacha were both born and buried in Kano.

14. Murtala Mohammed, as Head of State, had no convoy nor escorts. He was the youngest Head of State to die in office at 37.

15. General Sani Abacha had 9 children and the last child, a boy, was born in Aso Rock in 1994. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

16. General Sani Abacha was born on a Monday and died on a Monday.

17. Umar Musa Yar’Adua was the first elected President to die while in office.

18. During the civil war, Emeka Ojukwu slept every day with his boots on.

19. Major-General Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi maintains the record as the tallest Head of State. He was the first Military Head of State.

20. Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh founded the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1959. He was the only minister killed in the January 15 coup of 1966.

21. Christians have ruled Nigeria for 25 years and 9 months while Muslims have ruled for 31 years and 5 months as at the point of writing this list.

22. Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan is the only civilian Head of State without a political party to rule Nigeria. He was also the only unelected leader and the only one to resign from office.

23. Ernest Shonekan ruled Nigeria the shortest for 2 months and 21 days while Olusegun Obasanjo ruled the longest (both military and civilian) for 11 years, 7 months and 18 days. Both are the only South-Westerners ever to rule the country. Both are from Abeokuta in Ogun State. Both are Christians.

24. Every Nigerian Head of State with an Ogun State indigene as his deputy, whether removed or sustained, died in office.

25. All civilian presidents were once teachers, except Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari.

26. Niger, Katsina and Ogun States are the only states to have produced two leaders who had ruled the country.

27. Nigeria once had no leader for 3 days (July 29-August 1, 1966).

28. The only president who had no executive power at all was Dr Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe.

29. Dr Goodluck Jonathan is the first incumbent President to be defeated in an election.

30. The only President and Head-of-State who could speak Nigeria’s three major languages (Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba) fluently were Igbos – President Nnamdi Azikiwe and Major-General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi Ironsi respectively.

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One of the worst torture methods in history involves being ‘licked to death’ by a goat

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November 23, 2024

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At this point I’m pretty sure people were just trying whatever they could think of

If there’s one truth about human beings which has endured throughout history it’s that we’re a bunch of weirdos who do some very strange things.

Naturally, that includes finding weird ways to hurt or kill each other, as some of the methods are just downright bizarre.

You’d think that by the time people were coming up with ways to kill each other involving two boats and copious lashings of milk and honey that we were pretty much running out of ideas and freestyling but human ingenuity had plenty more in the tank when it came to being horrible…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

Of course, there was the guy who built a giant torture device in the shape of a bull, and ended up becoming the first victim of his own creation, while at other times the implements are as simple as something which pulls your limbs out of their joints.

An artist's impression of the 'goat's tongue' punishment (By Nan Palmero from San Antonio, TX, USA - Rothenburg Germany Torture Museum, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65242774)

However, each of these methods involves some kind of gadget or implement, for a more low tech alternative then you might consider one which needs nothing beyond a bucket of saltwater and a goat.

This historic torture method was known as the ‘goat’s tongue’ and could leave a person in agonising pain or even result in their death.

How it worked was a person would have their feet immersed in saltwater to make it more vulnerable to peeling and then the poor victim will be secured in place so that the goat can properly be deployed.

The idea is that the goat will go and lick the person’s salty feet, and the unceasing tongue lashing from the bleating beast would slowly but steadily wear down the skin on the soles of the feet. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

While having the soles of your feet licked by a goat might initially feel quite ticklish, it must have been agony once the skin starts wearing down and you wish you were anywhere else other than stuck with a goat licking your feet.

Such a torture could even result in death should the wounds that form on the soles of the feet become infected, and having a farm animal lick your open wounds seems like a good way to get them infected.

The ‘goat’s tongue’ was described in documents condemning the use of torture and is thought to date back to the days of Ancient Rome.

While they had some decent ways to treat illness and it wasn’t all dreadful when it came to medical care, you’d much rather not get some sort of infection in those times.

Oh no, the most terrifying torture implement ever! (ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Plus, with the skin on the soles of your feet licked down to absolutely nothing good luck walking anywhere for an incredibly long amount of time.

Even if the goat’s tongue didn’t infect your wounds then trying to walk on your ruined feet would probably have a similar impact.

Be glad that the horrific torture method is no longer used in this day and age.

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I Visited My Dying Boyfriend At The Hospital Only To Meet The Shock Of My Life

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November 23, 2024

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They were three guys when I met them. Martin, Joe and Laka. It was Martin who called and talked to me. They were new in town and were looking for friends. I agreed to be friends with them.

All of them became my friends and since they were living in the same house, I went there on weekends to help them. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

They were kind to me. They bought gifts for me when they returned from their travels. They gave me money when…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

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The Igbo Landing – Story Of Igbo Slaves Who Rebelled Against Slave Traders And Committed Mass Suicide In U.S.A., 1803

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November 23, 2024

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Jamaican artist, Donovan Nelson’s illustration paying tribute to the Igbo Landing Event.

Countless accounts of terrifying and dehumanizing events that happened during the slave trade era have been passed down from generations to generations; accounts of irrational cruelty, starvation, resistance, mass killings and suicide. The story of the Igbo landing is another tear-evoking account of resistance to slavery by the Igbo slaves from present-day Nigeria off U.S. coast in 1803…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

What Is The Igbo Landing Or Ibo Landing?

The Igbo landing, also written as ‘Ibo landing‘ or ‘Ebo landing‘, is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia, U.S.A. where dozens of Igbo slaves took their own lives in a resistance to the cruelty of slavery in 1803.

In May, 1803, a ship named the wanderer, just like other slave ships, conveyed slaves from Africa to America. Among these slaves were set of Igbo people who were known by the then slave traders of the American South for being fiercely independent and unwilling to tolerate chattel slavery. The Igbo slaves were bought by the agents of John Couper and Thomas Spalding at $100 each for forced labour on their plantations in St. Simons Island, U.S.A.

When the slave ship landed in Savannah, Georgia, the chained Igbo slaves were reloaded and shoved under the deck of a coastal vessel named the Schooner York (some accounts claimed the vessel name was Morovia) which would take them to St. Simons Island. It was during the voyage that the group of Igbo slaves numbering about seventy-five rebelled against their captors and forced them to plunge into the water where they drowned. The slaves successfully regained their freedom but it was of no use since they were already out and far away from Africa, and so, on the order of a high chief who was also a captive, they sang, marched ashore and then into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek where they drowned themselves.

According to Professor Terri L. Snyder, “the enslaved cargo suffered much by mismanagement, rose from their confinement in the small vessel, and revolted against the crew, forcing them into the water where they drowned”. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Igbo Landing Illustration — Another illustration paying tribute to the Igbo Landing Event by Donovan Nelson

A white man, Roswell King, who was an overseer on a plantation known as Pierce Butler plantation was the first to record the incident at the site now known as the Igbo landing. Roswell and another man, Captain Peterson, recovered thirteen bodies of the drowned Igbos while others bodies were lost forever in the water. OldNaija gathered that some of them might have survived the suicide episode and this make the actual number of deaths in the Igbo landing uncertain.

“Regardless of the numbers, the deaths signaled a powerful story of resistance as these captives overwhelmed their captors in a strange land, and many took their own lives rather than remain enslaved in the New World. The Igbo Landing gradually took on enormous symbolic importance in local African American folklore”. – Momodu, Samuel

People in the U.S.A termed the resistance and suicide by the Igbo slaves the first freedom march in the history of Africa and the United States. Local people claimed that the Landing and surrounding marshes in Dunbar Creek where the Igbo people committed mass suicide in May, 1803 were haunted by the souls of the dead Igbo slaves.

Igbo Landing Picture — FREEING THE SOULS OF IGBO LANDING, THE NEVER-BEEN-RULED. “The Water Spirit Omambala brought us here. The Water Spirit Omambala will carry us home.” (Orimiri Omambala bu anyi bia. Orimiri Omambala ka anyi ga ejina. – Ancient Igbo Hymn)

In September, 2012, the Igbo Landing site was designated as a holy ground by the St. Simons African American community. The Igbo Landing is also now a part of the curriculum for coastal Georgia schools.

In recent times, many artists, songs, movies and others have paid tribute to the Igbo landing/ Ibo landing. A notable tribute is found in the ending part of Marvel’s comic movie, Black Panther, where Killmonger, played by Michael B Jordan, refer to the event by saying, “Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better than bondage”. Beyoncé also was not left out in the tribute paying as she portrayed the incident in of her music videos.

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