Operation Wetie came from the Yoruba expression, which means “drench it.” It became a grim command: drench your ...
On the night of October 15, 1965, something extraordinary happened. An unknown gunman broke into the Western Nigerian ...
In April 1963, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi of Kano flouted the First Law of Power and was deposed by ...
Nigeria’s First Republic lasted for less than three years until it fell on January 15, 1966, after the ...
The full story of how the political rivalry between Ladoke Akintola and Obafemi Awolowo led to Nigeria's First ...