The profound respect between Nigeria’s entertainment icons—one from the music industry and the other from the film industry—is demonstrated by…
While it was being built Musa Isa Giwa, the father of famed journalist Dele Giwa, was one of the workers…
Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti assigned Tunji Braithwaite to represent the family in February 1977 in order to get Beko and Fela’s…
Major General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi is seen in a photo saying goodbye to the Congo at Leopoldville, which is now Kinshasa.…
Nigeria held parliamentary elections on December 30, 1964, although because of a boycott in December, several constituencies in the Eastern…
The only king in all of West Africa, including the Yoruba kingdoms, to wear a leather crown is TIMI of…
Born in the 19th century, Prince Ugbona Oritsemone was a prominent Itsekiri figure. His father, Prince Oritsemone Akengbuwa, was the…
Professor Ambrose Alli, Ezomo of Ekpoma,was elected as Bendel State’s governor and went on to establish “Bendel State University,” which…
On 2005, Omotola Ekeinde was appointed an Ambassador of the United Nations World Food Programme, serving on missions in Liberia…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo claimed in his contentious 2010 autobiography, My Watch, that he was unaware that his late wife,…
A video shows Nigeria’s military head of state, Major General Ibrahim Babangida, launching the Association of African Petroleum Producers in…
The world’s first scientist to identify the gene encoding the enzyme that causes sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma) was Professor Andrew Jonathan…
A spiritual leader in the late 1970s was Sat Guru Maharaj Ji.Mohammed Ajirobatan was born in 1947. He predicted that…
Today, the name Ojukwu is somewhat synonymous with the Biafra civil war leader, although this was not always the case.…
Until his passing on January 7, 1983, Oba Daniel Anirare Aladesanmi II served as the 18th Ewi of Ado-Ekiti from…
A warlord and leader of Ilesa, Ogedengbe Agbogungboro was born in 1822 and died on July 29, 1910. He was…
Olusegun Obasanjo and MKO Abiola in their high school years.Olusegun Obasanjo (standing right) served as the deputy editor and MKO…
A Nigerian woman from the Oloko tribe named Madam NWAYERUWA made history by recruiting women to rebel against the British…
Major-General Yakubu Gowon married Victoria Zakari on Saturday, April 19, 1969, while the civil war was still going on. The…
Bianca Onoh-Ojukwu, then 21 years old, dazzled the Miss Intercontinental stage with her grace 35 years ago in 1989! From…
