49 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 →50 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 →51 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 →52 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 →53 Lost history · Zamfara
"Bakolori: The Dam That Took the Farmers' Land"
A giant irrigation scheme, unpaid farmers, and the killings of April 1980 →54 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 →55 Lost history · Sokoto
Satiru 1906, the village that was never allowed to rise again
The Satiru uprising near Sokoto →56 Lost history · Sokoto
Surame, the stone city that made Kanta of Kebbi a "Pharaoh"
Surame, Kanta's stone capital →57 Lost history · Kebbi
Jega, the kolanut town that paddled all the way to Yorubaland
Jega's kolanut traders →58 Lost history · Katsina
Funtua, the cotton mill that refused to sack anyone
Funtua Textiles and its spinners →59 Lost history · Borno
Rabeh's Fort at Dikwa, and the warlord who had 999 of everything
Rabeh's Fort, Dikwa →60 Lost history · Gombe
Kaltungo, and the night Antu carried her own snake to hospital
The snakebite hospital of Kaltungo →61 Lost history · Gombe
Mbormi, the field where a Sultan of Sokoto lies among the farms
The tomb of Sultan Attahiru I at Mbormi →62 Lost history · Gombe
Gombe Abba, the emirs' capital the British left behind
The first capital of Gombe Emirate →63 Lost history · Borno
Uba, the town a highway cut between two states
Uba, half in Borno and half in Adamawa →64 Lost history · Gombe
Tula, the hidden cave beneath the village and the chiefdom never conquered
Wuro Titilo, the refuge cave of Tula →65 Lost history · Delta
The morning Asaba danced for One Nigeria
Asaba massacre, October 1967 →66 Lost history · Cross River
Bakassi, the fishing peninsula Nigeria handed to Cameroon
How a court ruling moved Bakassi from Nigeria to Cameroon →67 Lost history · Edo
Benin 1897, the invasion that paid for itself at auction
How the Benin Bronzes were sold in London to cover the cost of the war →68 Lost history · Delta
Ekumeku, the league of the silent ones
The western Igbo resistance, 1898–1911 →69 Lost history · Ebonyi
Ekwunekwune 1954, the village that stopped paying tax
The "Akunakuna" tax revolt of February 1954 →70 Lost history · Cross River
The stone faces in the forest circles
Ikom monoliths (akwanshi) →71 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 →72 Lost history · Bayelsa
The day five hundred communities met in Kaiama
Kaiama Declaration, 11 December 1998 →