Portal:Nigeria/Did you know

...that Bayajidda, the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people, is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
...that of Nigeria's 521 languages, 9 are extinct and 2 are spoken only as second languages?
...that the Defaka people are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?
...that the Area Boys are a gang of street children and teenagers who roam the streets of Lagos extorting money from passers-by?
...that at the time of his death in 1955, Kano businessman Alhassan Dantata was the richest man in West Africa?