145 People · Edo
Emotan, the market woman Benin still salutes
Emotan and her shrine at Oba Market →146 Lost history · Delta
Koko 1988, the drums in Sunday Nanna's yard
The Koko toxic waste dump →147 People · Cross River
The Robin Johns, the Calabar traders who were sold themselves
Little Ephraim and Ancona Robin John, 1767–1774 →148 People · Bayelsa
Isaac Boro and the twelve-day republic
Isaac Adaka Boro's Niger Delta Republic, 1966 →149 Lost history · Edo
Old Benin City, the walls longer than the Great Wall
The planned city and earthworks of old Benin →150 Legend · Delta
Okpe, the capital left empty for 150 years
How the Okpe kingdom lost and regained Orerokpe →151 Lost history · Rivers
Eze Ekpeye Logbo, the throne any Ekpeye son can win
The elected paramount stool of the Ekpeye →152 Custom · Rivers
Ogbakiri, the feast that ended a war
The Oriko love feast of Ogbakiri, 2002 →153 Lost history · Kebbi
"Argungu: The Fishing Festival That Made Peace Between Two Kingdoms"
How a royal friendship turned a river into a peace treaty →154 Lost history · Katsina
"Durbi Takusheyi: The Katsina Graves Full of Treasure from Far Away"
Burial mounds that show Katsina was trading with the wider world 700 years ago →155 Lost history · Sokoto
"Nana Asma'u: The Caliph's Daughter Who Sent Women Teachers Across the North"
A poet in four languages who built a travelling school for women →156 Lost history · Kaduna
"The Jemaa Head: The Ancient Nok Sculpture Used as a Scarecrow"
How tin miners stumbled on Nok, and how looters nearly emptied it →157 Legend · Jigawa
"Hade and Jiya: The Hunter and His Wife Who Named Hadejia"
A town named after a married couple, and the seven kingdoms that came before it →158 Lost history · Jigawa
"Birnin Kudu: The Rocks That Ring and the Painted Cattle"
Rock gongs with eleven notes and cattle paintings older than the humped cow →159 Lost history · Zamfara
"Bakolori: The Dam That Took the Farmers' Land"
A giant irrigation scheme, unpaid farmers, and the killings of April 1980 →160 Lost history · Zamfara
"Zamfara 2010: The Gold That Poisoned the Children"
How grinding gold ore at home caused one of the worst lead poisonings ever recorded →161 Lost history · Sokoto
Satiru 1906, the village that was never allowed to rise again
The Satiru uprising near Sokoto →162 People · Kaduna
Gambo Sawaba, the woman who kept a prison blanket by the door
Hajiya Gambo Sawaba of Zaria →163 Lost history · Sokoto
Surame, the stone city that made Kanta of Kebbi a "Pharaoh"
Surame, Kanta's stone capital →164 Custom · Kebbi
Yauri, where a new emir once sat on a hippo for his picture
The hippo of Yauri Emirate →165 Custom · Katsina
Musawa, the town that gave its crocodiles names and its babies their mark
The lost crocodiles of Musawa →166 Lost history · Kebbi
Jega, the kolanut town that paddled all the way to Yorubaland
Jega's kolanut traders →167 Legend · Sokoto
Hubbaren Shehu, the house where Dan Fodio lies in his wife's room
Hubbaren Shehu, Sokoto →168 Custom · Kebbi
Uhola, the Zuru festival where young men run to farm for their in-laws
The Uhola festival of Zuru →