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True events that school books skipped or forgot.

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25 Lost history · Kogi

Lokoja Asylum: The Prison Where Patients Were Made to Work

The North's first asylum was a prison, and its patients were its workforce →
26 Lost history · Niger

The River That Kept Mungo Park

Mungo Park at Bussa →
27 Lost history · Oyo

Okeho, the town that eleven villages built together

Okeho's union and return →
28 Lost history · Niger

The Town Beneath Kainji Lake

Old Bussa →
29 Lost history · Niger

The Northern Town Where Zik and Ojukwu Began

Zungeru's shared beginnings →
30 Lost history · Ondo

Agbabu 1908, the oil strike Nigeria forgot

Nigeria's first oil strike, at Lekki Lagoon →
31 Lost history · Osun

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

The Kiriji War at Imesi-Ile →
32 Lost history · Ogun

Imagbon 1892, the three-hour battle that opened Ijebu

The Ijebu war of 1892 →
33 Lost history · Ogun

Sagamu was never one town

Sagamu's thirteen towns →
34 Lost history · Lagos

The house that sold Lagos its water

Water House, Kakawa Street →
35 Lost history · Osun

The heads that turned up under a house in Ife

The Wunmonije heads of Ile-Ife →
36 Lost history · Lagos

The king of Lagos who ran a rival state from Epe

Kosoko's exile in Epe →
37 Lost history · Enugu

The village square built from the waste of ancient furnaces

Lejja's iron-slag square, Nsukka →
38 Lost history · Anambra

Annabelle, the road that became Africa's second-busiest airport by night

Uli airstrip and the Biafran airlift →
39 Lost history · Imo

The speech in Ahiara where a dying Biafra wrote down what it wanted to be

The Ahiara Declaration, Mbaise →
40 Lost history · Abia

Lokpanta, the cattle market that kept moving until it reached the expressway

Lokpanta cattle market, Umunneochi →
41 Lost history · Ebonyi

Nigeria's first cement factory, where rats and snakes now do the shift work

Nigercem cement factory, Nkalagu, Ishielu →
42 Lost history · Enugu

Ogbunigwe, the weapon Biafra built from scratch

Ogbunigwe, the "Ojukwu bucket" →
43 Lost history · Anambra

Nri, the Igbo kingdom that ruled without an army

The kingdom of Nri →
44 Lost history · Enugu

Oji River, where the cured cannot go home

The leprosy settlements of the South East →
45 Lost history · Delta

Koko 1988, the drums in Sunday Nanna's yard

The Koko toxic waste dump →
46 Lost history · Edo

Old Benin City, the walls longer than the Great Wall

The planned city and earthworks of old Benin →
47 Lost history · Rivers

Eze Ekpeye Logbo, the throne any Ekpeye son can win

The elected paramount stool of the Ekpeye →
48 Lost history · Kebbi

"Argungu: The Fishing Festival That Made Peace Between Two Kingdoms"

How a royal friendship turned a river into a peace treaty →
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