At the Commonwealth Summit in Lagos, Nigeria, an iconic picture of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria, Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda, and President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, taken. January 13, 1966.
The unexpected occurred on Friday, October 6, 1995, between 8.15 and 8.30 am. In front of Pa Alfred Rewane’s residence at 100 Oduduwa Crescent, G.R.A., Ikeja, Lagos, a Peugeot 504 automobile screamed to a stop. Five men got out of the car’s belly looking like murderers from the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. They went up to the guard and explained that they were there to visit the landlord in order to deliver a crucial message from Life Flour Mills in Sapele. The business is owned by Pa Rewane. They pushed a document in front of the gatekeeper. He quickly unscrewed the gate from its lubricated hinges. The men came in. Head was heading upstairs to let the domestic staff know he had some visitors. Together with the aide, two of the men ascended the steps. While the others were occupied with the landlord upstairs, they had taken two of the Chief’s daughters captive. The attackers fired numerous rounds into the defenseless elderly man’s body. He passed away. Rewane was born in Warri, Nigeria, to Jemide Erewarone’s family. His full name at birth was Ogbeyiwa Erewarone. Rewane’s father was an Agbor-based businessman. During the period that his father was away from Warri, Rewane remained with his uncle, who was a devout follower at the time and gave Rewane his first name, Alfred. He received his education in Warri at the African School and later the Government School. Rewane did not continue his schooling after being accepted to Dennis Memorial Grammar School for his secondary education. He began his career with UAC as a manager trainee and eventually rose to the position of beach master at Lagos Customs Wharf. The image above was captured in the early 1970s during Muhammad Ali’s tour to Nigeria while serving as an ambassador for Ovaltine.Ovaltine Nigeria had Alfred Ogbeyiwa Rewane as a key shareholder. After leaving UAC in the 1940s, he concentrated on importing products, particularly black pepper and cow bones. In the 1950s, he also got involved in the wood trade and owned the Rex club in Yaba, Lagos, where Bobby Benson performed frequently. Rewane was a member of the Action Group during Nigeria’s pre-independence period. He rose to…
An old photo of Kashim Shettima, the vice president of Nigeria and a former senator and governor of Borno State, with his pals during his time at the University of Maiduguri in Borno State.
There have been fights here for a long time. The Kibaku, also known as the Chibok ethnic group, are comprised of 38 distinct clans and sub-clans that speak the same language. They initially arrived in the Chibok hills in the 1700s. There, they battled off the forces of the British (the Kibaku were the last people to submit to British power), Borno, the Sudanese slave trader, and Rabah Fadallah, Africa’s most infamous slave trader during the late 1800s and the early 1900s.