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97 Custom · Niger

The Bida Families Who Turn Bottles Into Beads

Masaga glassmakers of Bida →
98 Legend · Niger

The Runaway Prince Who Became Nupe King

Tsoede of Nupe →
99 Legend · Ondo

The water kingdom that says it was in Ife before Oduduwa

Ugbo and the oldest-throne quarrel →
100 Place name · Niger

The Birds Behind Zuma Rock's Name

Zuma Rock, Suleja →
101 Lost history · Niger

The Northern Town Where Zik and Ojukwu Began

Zungeru's shared beginnings →
102 Lost history · Ondo

Agbabu 1908, the oil strike Nigeria forgot

Nigeria's first oil strike, at Lekki Lagoon →
103 People · Lagos

Taiwo Olowo, the rich man of Lagos who was once a slave

Taiwo Olowo, "Taiwo the rich" →
104 People · Lagos

Oshodi Tapa, the Nupe boy who became a Lagos war chief

Balogun Oshodi Tapa of Lagos →
105 People · Oyo

Basorun Gaa, the kingmaker who outlived four kings of Oyo

Basorun Gaa of Old Oyo →
106 People · Lagos

Agege bread and the Jamaican baker of Ebute Metta

The Jamaican behind Agege bread →
107 Lost history · Osun

Kiriji, the sixteen-year war named after the sound of guns

The Kiriji War at Imesi-Ile →
108 Legend · Ekiti

Omu-Ekiti, the kingdom of sixteen gates and the fish nobody can photograph

Omu-Ekiti and its sixteen gates →
109 Lost history · Ogun

Imagbon 1892, the three-hour battle that opened Ijebu

The Ijebu war of 1892 →
110 Legend · Ekiti

The king who gave up Ife, built Efon, and went back

Efon-Alaaye's founder →
111 Legend · Osun

The waterfall that had a village on its roof

Olumirin Falls, Erin-Ijesa →
112 Place name · Lagos

The palace on the pepper farm

Iga Idunganran, Lagos Island →
113 Lost history · Ogun

Sagamu was never one town

Sagamu's thirteen towns →
114 Lost history · Lagos

The house that sold Lagos its water

Water House, Kakawa Street →
115 Lost history · Osun

The heads that turned up under a house in Ife

The Wunmonije heads of Ile-Ife →
116 People · Osun

The drummer who walked into a paint workshop

Muraina Oyelami of Iragbiji →
117 Lost history · Lagos

The king of Lagos who ran a rival state from Epe

Kosoko's exile in Epe →
118 Legend · Ogun

The crown that stayed hidden for 21 years

The hidden crown of Owu →
119 Custom · Ogun

Tea-chest tin, cassava paste and a king's jubilee

Adire, the indigo cloth of Abeokuta →
120 People · Ekiti

The steamroller driver who walked into Efon's forbidden forest

Babalola and the forbidden forest of Efon →
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