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193 Lost history · Cross River

The stone faces in the forest circles

Ikom monoliths (akwanshi) →
194 Lost history · Akwa Ibom

Ikot Abasi 1929, the boy whose mother was shot and the judge he became

The 1929 women's shooting at Ikot Abasi and Justice Udo Udoma →
195 People · Rivers

The enslaved boy who built a kingdom

King Jaja of Opobo, c. 1821–1891 →
196 Lost history · Bayelsa

The day five hundred communities met in Kaiama

Kaiama Declaration, 11 December 1998 →
197 Lost history · Bayelsa

The schoolteacher king who burned Akassa

King Koko and the Akassa raid, 1895 →
198 People · Delta

The merchant prince who lost his river

Nana Olomu of Ebrohimi, 1852–1916 →
199 Legend · Cross River

Obudu Ranch began with a vet's camp on Oshie Ridge

How a cattle plateau became Nigeria's mountain resort →
200 Lost history · Bayelsa

Odi, where only three buildings stood

Odi, November 1999 →
201 Lost history · Rivers

The Ogoni women who told Shell to stay out

FOWA and the women of the Ogoni struggle →
202 Lost history · Cross River

The peace talks on the Calabar River that were a trap

The 1767 massacre of Old Town traders at Old Calabar →
203 Lost history · Bayelsa

Nigeria's first oil well, and the village it really sat in

Oloibiri oilfield and Otuabagi, 1956–2024 →
204 Lost history · Akwa Ibom

The Oron ancestors who were burned as firewood

The Oron ekpu figures and the civil war →
205 Legend · Rivers

The city named after a colonial secretary

How Port Harcourt got its name →
206 People · Edo

The queen mother behind the FESTAC mask

Queen Idia and the pendant Britain would not lend →
207 People · Rivers

The Bonny king Britain removed, then paid to bring back

King William Dappa Pepple's exile and return →
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