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BY ADEBAYO MAYOWA EBENEZER It is said that you’ve not seen it all in Nigeria if you’ve not seen Mambilla Plateau. No road in Nigeria offers more mystery than the one I am about to tell you. It’s the best if you set out on this quest with friends equally young because then all of you will be carried through days of long drive and infrequent “pee-stops” across the massive undulating snake-like road to Mambilla. You’ve likely never been there, never been to any place like that. Mambilla plateau is the greatest gift of the creator to this nation as God packed lots of beauty to behold. Among the coldest region in Nigeria (sometimes colder than Jos), there is no heat, no mosquitoes, no tension, no panicking just perfect tranquillity. Typically, this is not an area that attracts tourists and tour operators but the place is a jewel that must be tapped into. Home to the highest point in Nigeria, the largest tea farm in Nigeria and largest national park-Taraba, the adventure is life changing and...

Awhum Waterfall It is 30 metres high and is located in udi LGA,Enugu state, Nigeria.The locals believe the water has healing powers and is capable of driving away evil spirits if used. The Awhum Waterfall is also a popular tourist location in Nigeria.

The British-Igbo War That Lasted For 31 years - The Ekumeku Movement The resolutions of the Berlin conference of 1884-1885, gave European nations the rights to lay claim to lands and resources in Africa. Britain, who had engaged in the trade with coastal cities before and during the 19th century, made bold their intentions to covet resources and rule over indigenous nations all over Africa. They came with guns and preachers. Many Africans tribes resisted the British invaders, and this led to protracted wars. Many African tribes put up a great fight against the superior firepower of the suppressive British. One of such tribes are the Igbo people of ancient Biafra, who are now one of the three major tribes in Nigeria. The Ekumeku Movement was the name of Igbo army, that held the British at bay and fought them for 31 years. The Ekumeku movement consisted of a great number of attacks and uprising by the Anioma people of the land, against the British, fro...

Electricity was introduced in Nigeria on September 19, 1898 which was 17 years after its introduction in England.  The total generation then was 60 Kilowatts (KW). The line powered the Lagos Marina, from the Government House to Apongbon.

In May 1803 75 igbo slaves from EASTERN NIGERIA revolted, took control of their slave ship, grounded it on Dunbar creek, St. Simon island, Glynn County, Georgia and rather than submit to slavery, proceeded to march in to the water  holding hands while singing a native igbo song, drowning themselves in. The slaves have been chained and put aboard ship to be transported to their destination, during this voyage they took control of the ship and drowned their  captors.  The event's moral value as a story of resistance towards slavery has symbolic importance in African American folklore and literary history, it had been named as the First major freedom match in American history.  This event is referred to as "THE IGBO LANDING "

The Fulani War of 1804–1808, also known as the Fulani Jihad or Jihad of Usman dan Fodio, was a military conflict in present-day Nigeria and Cameroon. The war began when Usman dan Fodio, a prominent Islamic scholar and teacher, was exiled from Gobir by the King Yunfa, one of his former students. Usman dan Fodio assembled a Fulani army to lead in jihad against the Hausa kingdoms of the north of Nigeria. The forces of Usman dan Fodio slowly took over more and more of the Hausa kingdoms, capturing Gobir in 1808 and executing Yunfa. The war resulted in the creation of the Sokoto Caliphate, headed by Usman dan Fodio, which became one of the largest states in Africa in the 19th century. His success inspired similar jihads in Western Africa.

*HISTORY OF KING EYO HONESTY II AND HIS IMPACT IN OLD CALABAR * Eyo Honesty II was the king of Creek Town, one of the Southern Nigerian towns of the Efik people who presently constitute the chief population of Calabar. Eyo is remembered in history for his modernizing effort, and for being an instrument by which British rule became enacted in the Niger Delta. His name, Honesty had stuck, in T.J. Hutchinson’s 1858 account, because of his honest and progressive outlook.  Born in c.1788 into a middling dynasty, Eyo enjoyed the privilege as a child to learn the English language, good for trade, and to travel across oceans while he served as a cabin boy under some English Captains. He rose by the strength of his commercial acumen and industry to become, before the year 1846, the wealthiest Efik. Following the death of his father, Eyo Nsa, he plunged himself, first in slave trade, and after its illegality was established in his country, turned his energy to the trade in palm o...