25 Legend · Ondo
The water kingdom that says it was in Ife before Oduduwa
Ugbo and the oldest-throne quarrel →26 Legend · Ekiti
Omu-Ekiti, the kingdom of sixteen gates and the fish nobody can photograph
Omu-Ekiti and its sixteen gates →27 Legend · Ekiti
The king who gave up Ife, built Efon, and went back
Efon-Alaaye's founder →28 Legend · Osun
The waterfall that had a village on its roof
Olumirin Falls, Erin-Ijesa →29 Legend · Ogun
The crown that stayed hidden for 21 years
The hidden crown of Owu →30 Legend · Ebonyi
The salt lakes that only women may work, and that no machine has beaten
Okposi and Uburu salt lakes, Ohaozara →31 Legend · Anambra
The old man who squeezed water from his beard and became a lake
Agulu Lake, Anaocha →32 Legend · Imo
Owerri, the city named after a quarrel over a funeral cow
How Owerri got its name, Owerri Municipal →33 Legend · Enugu
Mmaku, the goddess who got tired and left her cave
The caves of Mmaku and Achi →34 Legend · Delta
Okpe, the capital left empty for 150 years
How the Okpe kingdom lost and regained Orerokpe →35 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 →36 Legend · Sokoto
Hubbaren Shehu, the house where Dan Fodio lies in his wife's room
Hubbaren Shehu, Sokoto →37 Legend · Yobe
Machina, the emirate where snakes are the king's brothers
The royal snakes of Machina →38 Legend · Taraba
The Wukari crocodiles that once visited the king on Fridays
The crocodiles of Marmara pond →39 Legend · Bayelsa
Egbesu, the Ijaw god who only fights for justice
Egbesu, the Ijaw deity of justice and just war →40 Legend · Cross River
Ekpe and Abakuá, the Calabar society that crossed to Cuba
How Calabar's Ekpe became Cuba's Abakuá →41 Legend · Rivers
Elem Kalabari, the kingdom that packed up and left its capital
Why the Kalabari moved to Bakana, Abonnema and Buguma →42 Legend · Edo
Igun Street, where only seven families may cast Benin bronze
The hereditary guild of Benin bronze casters on Igun Street →43 Legend · Cross River
Obudu Ranch began with a vet's camp on Oshie Ridge
How a cattle plateau became Nigeria's mountain resort →44 Legend · Rivers
The city named after a colonial secretary
How Port Harcourt got its name →