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Cross River- Largest Diversity of Butterfly

Nigeria does not exactly have the largest, though it has a wide array of butterflies. It has the best condition due to the microclimate condition in areas around Calabar, Cross River State located in the southern part of the country. A total number of 1, 828 species of butterflies have bee...

Festac ’77 - Second World Black and Festival of Arts & Culture.

What is it about Festac 77 that remains in the Nigerian memory? quite young at the time, but one enduring memory I have of the event is the Festac77 anthem.


Let a new earth rise

Let another world be born

Let a bloody peace

Be written in the sky


Let a second generation

Full of courage issue forth

Let a...

Largest Celebrated Festival in Africa - Calabar

I’m pretty sure not everyone reading this article knows about the exciting activities held at “The Calabar Festival & Carnival” if you haven’t i urge you to read this!!!!

Festivals are event celebrated by community an centering on some characteristics aspect of that community and it’s religion or...

Okposi and Uburu Salt Lake 

In our last article we talked about Nkalagu in Ebonyi having the large deposit of limestone. Today we dive into another interesting topic “okopsi and uburu salt lake

The two popular salt lake okposi and uburu gave Ebonyi state the slogan – “The Salt of the Nation”.

Before the dawn of industriali...

Gidan Rumfa- Oldest Traditional Palace in Nigeria

Kano is the state capital of Kano State in Northern West, Nigeria. It is situated in the Sahelian geographic region, south of the Sahara. Kano is the commercial nerve center of Northern and is the second largest city in Nigeria, after Lagos. The principal inhabitants of the city are the Hausa p...