NIGERIA CURRENT AFFAIRS
There are so many records about our
past Heroes and below few of them:
·
Herbert Macaulay was the first man to own a Car
in Nigeria .
·
Herbert Macaulay was the first President in Nigeria .
·
The Second President in Nigeria was
Dr.Nnamdi Azikwe.
·
The first General Secretary was Dr.Nnamdi
Azikwe.
·
The fist storey building in Nigeria was found in Badagry.
·
The five International
Airport in Nigeria
are: Muritala Muhammed
Int. Airport ,
Lagos , Kano , Port-Harcourt,
Abuja , and Calabar Int.
Airport .
·
Coal was discover at Enugu in 1912.
·
The National Stadium in Lagos was Commissioned on Dec. 4th
1972.
·
Operation WETTIE happened after 1965 election
·
Lagos-Ibadan Railway line was completed in 1901
·
War against Indiscipline was inaugurated in
March 20th 1984.
·
First wrestler Nigeria to win a world Belt is Mike
Okpala.
·
The seat of the Federal Government was move from
Lagos to Abuja
on Dec. 12th 1991.
·
Queen Elizabeth visited Nigeria in
1956.
·
The firs discovery of oil came up in 1953.
·
Nigeria
was name Nigeria
in 1914.
·
Nigeria
civil war started in 1967.
·
Osun
State was created on Aug.
27th 1991.
·
Pound sterling was introduce as Nigeria
currency in 1945.
·
First oil well in Nigeria is at Olobiri P.H Rivers
state.
·
First motor road in Nigeria (Ibadan-Oyo) was completed
in 1905.
·
The first woman to buy a car in Nigeria
was Mrs. Efunroye Tinubu.
·
Taiwo Akinkunmi design the Nigeria National Flag
in 1958.
·
University
College Hospital
Ibadan was
established and headed by Dr. Kenneth Mallany in 1948.
·
Niger Dam (Kanji Dam) was opened in 1970.
·
Alhaji Shehu Shagari became the first Nigeria
executive President on Oct. 1st 1979.
·
Slave trade was abolish in Nigeria between 1976-1898.
·
River Niger and River Benue join at
Lokoja.
·
Prof. Wole Shoyinka became the first Africa and Nigeria to win the world Noble price for
literature in Stock-ham Sweden
on Oct. 16th 1986.
·
The first Nigeria
Hospital was built by Father Coquard
at Abeokuta .
·
Gen I.B Babangida became 1st
Millitary President in August 27th, 1986.
·
Nigeria
change into metric system of currency (Naira and Kobbo) on Jan. 1st
1958.
·
Central Bank of Nigeria was Opened for business on
1958.
·
The first Landing of Aeroplane in Nigeria took place in Kano in 1925.
·
The first woman Pilot in Nigeria was
Chinyere Anayuchea.
·
Hitler War started in 1939.
·
The first chairman of P.D.P was chief Solomon
Lar.
·
The first
chairman of A.D was Mamman A.D was
Mamman Yusuf.
·
The first chairman of A.P.P was Alhji Yusuf Ali.
·
The first Political Party in Nigeria is
N.N.D.P.
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