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… Nigeria produces over 200,000 graduates annually? (‘Banks Come under Fire’, The Guardian, 3 August 2005, p. 29) … In 2001, over one million students registered for the West African School Certificate (‘O’ level) examination? (NESG: Economic Indicators - October-December 2001) TOURISM AND ENTERTAINMENT Did You Know That… … The cable car system in Obudu in Cross River State has the longest single span in the world? (The Guardian, 27 October 2006, p. 33) … Nigeria is ranked amongst the top forty tourism spenders? Nigeria is ranked thirty-ninth in tourism expenditure. We spend over $2 billion annually in external trips, while we earn less than $200 million annually from tourism (Travelers 2001). … Nigerians are the second most travelled people in Africa after South Africans? … Nigeria’s Avis Rent-a-Car is the best Avis franchise in Africa? (Travelers 2001) Did You Know That… … Lagos is presently the seventh most populous city in the world and is more populous than London? And that it is also one of the three fastest growing cities in the world? … According to the UN, Lagos is expected to become a mega-city in 2015? It is expected to be the world’s fifth most populous The Problem Called Nigeria “If the yam tuber escapes the flood at the farm, it will meet another one inside the cooking pot.” African Proverb T h e 8 t h W o n d e r o f t h e W o r l d - M a d e i n N i g e r i a 105 105
The Problem Called Nigeria “Even the rough looking madman has relatives; you will see them when he dies.” 106 106 African Proverb urban centre by 2015 with a population of about twenty-three million. (The Guardian on Sunday, 17 July 2005, p. 16) Did You Know That… … The Lagos-London route is one of the most profitable in the world? (Nick Fadugba, publisher of African Aviation, in an interview on Channels TV about the Bellview plane crash in 2005) … Nigeria is one of British Airways’ most profitable destinations in the world? … Yankari National Park is the nation’s first wildlife conservation centre, with the single largest elephant concentration site in West Africa? It has over 200 elephants. (Nigerian National Parks Information Brochure) … The Shaushau and Ampara iron smelting works (in Yankari National Park) have about sixty standing shaft furnaces, which are believed to be the largest historical industrial complexes of their kind in the West African sub-region? (Nigeria National Parks Information Brochure) Did You Know That… … Over 650 films are produced in Nigeria each year? (Africa Film and TV Bulletin, 12 June 2001) … In 2000, the movie industry in Nigeria generated a turnover of $65 million? (Travelers, vol. 6, no. 8, 2001) … Nigeria is considered to be the third largest movie-producing nation in the world after America and India, respectively? (ThisDay on Sunday, 16 July 2006 p. 94) T h e 8 t h W o n d e r o f t h e W o r l d - M a d e i n N i g e r i a
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Foreword by Dr Christopher Kolade (
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Copyright © 2010 by Olaboludele Si
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VI OuR REsPONsIbILITY Taking Respon
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VIII VIII our society at this time?
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X X the potential to astonish the w
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XII XII To every Nigerian who died
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XVI XVI For years, I felt a burning
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“The usefulness of a torn basket
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Introduction “You should keep you
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“When there is thunder and lightn
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Introduction 8 “The crab protects
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Introduction “The tree which stan
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Introduction “Those who wait for
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“The axe is never afraid of the t
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Introduction “Worry never robs to
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“He who hides a fire must not for
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Introduction “The young snake is
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“No man is ever more powerful tha
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“A lone finger cannot pick a lous
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PROLOGUE “Evil will triumph in an
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A Letter to You, Dear Reader “Wha
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There I was in a pool of my own blo
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My father had the money to send me
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The elite in Nigeria have created a
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you and I always will. Now, please
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Acknowledgements “One who thanks
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Jide Iyaniwura, Adenike Campbell-Fa
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Omakwu, Pastor Poju Oyemade, Dr. an
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ibliography/ Recommended Reading Ac
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Emmott, Bill: 20/21 Vision. London:
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Schluter, Michael and John Ashcroft
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