Random Facts About Nigeria V

Here is yet another list of amazing and mostly obscure facts about Nigeria. Enjoy it!

Farin Ruwa Falls is a waterfall that bestrides the boundary between Plateau and Nassarawa states, with its source on the Jos Plateau. It is said to be the highest waterfall in Nigeria and one of the highest in Africa, even higher than the more popular Victoria Falls.

On Aburi we Stand --Ojukwu

Nigerians leaders met in Aburi, Ghana on the 4^th – 5^th of January, 1967 to try to resolve their differences. Unfortunately, the meeting only served to ‘postpone the evil days’—the Civil War. On May 30, 1967 Lt.-Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu spoke his mind about the non-implementation of the Aburi Agreement through is now-famous ‘On Aburi we Stand’ Speech. The speech is reproduced below:

                                         

                     ON ABURI WE STAND            

Anybody who was present at the Aburi meeting or has read the minutes, the communiqués, statements, and verbatim reports would be surprised that a person who calls himself a head of state could so deliberately mislead accredited representatives of foreign governments by saying that the implementation of each item of the conclusions required prior detailed examination by the administrative and professional experts in the various fields. The conclusions in Aburi were no proposals but decisions taken by the highest authority in the land.

Quotes by Obafemi Awolowo

One way to determine a man’s character is by checking out his words—effectively reading his mind. The list below contains quotes by the late sage Obafemi Awolowo, one of Nigeria's founding fathers.                                                                                                                                                     

·        “Any people that is starved with books, especially the right type of books, will suffer intellectual malnutrition, stagnation and atrophy”

·        “After rain comes sunshine; after darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!”
 

Nigeria University Facts

This post brings to you facts about universities in Nigeria. Some of these facts are actually obsure. Expect more on this topic later.

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) was designed by an Isreali architect Arieh Sharon. He designed many buildings in Isreal. He was a foremost architect who won the Isreali Prize for Architecture in 1962. You may want to visit here for more architectural details about OAU.

Federal University of  Technology Yola (FUTY) has been renamed Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH). Modibbo Adama was the founder of Fombina Kingdom (Adamawa Emirate Council).

Tafawa Balewa University (in Bauchi, Bauchi State) actually belongs in the ‘university of technology’ category. Many prospective university students are not aware of this fact because it has no ‘technology’ in its nomenclature.