Within days of assuming office, Saburi Biobaku was stabbed in the back by a student with a knife. ...
Operation Wetie came from the Yoruba expression, which means “drench it.” It became a grim command: drench your ...
Wole Soyinka was once the suspected “Unknown Gunman” who, 60 years ago, allegedly stormed a radio station in ...
In April 1963, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi of Kano flouted the First Law of Power and was deposed by ...
Nigeria’s First Republic lasted less than three years until it fell on January 15, 1966, after the country’s ...
How the political rivalry between Samuel Ladoke Akintola and Obafemi Awolowo led to Operation Wetie and Nigeria's military ...
As Minister of Defence, Muhammadu Ribadu presided over a rapid expansion of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, as ...