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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 →
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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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