During the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, many Igbo people fled other parts of the country for the East because they were being killed and massacred wantonly and the government was doing nothing about it. Many abandoned their homes, properties and businesses for...
On the eve of the Saint Valentine’s Day preparation in 1976, Lagosians experienced the most bizarre happenings in Nigerian history in broad daylight. It was the assassination of Nigeria’s 3rd military Head-of-State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed on his 200th day in...
On December 29, 1170, four knights of King Henry II of England murdered the Archbishop of Canterbury (the highest ecclesiastical office in England) Thomas Beckett, right there in the cathedral, just eight days after his birthday. The knights had carried out...
There were three ships which were nearby when the Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912. One of them was known as the Sampson. It was 7 miles away from the Titanic and they saw the white flares signaling danger, but because...
Oba Adeniran Adeyemi II was the Alaafin of Oyo, between 1945 and 1954, until he was forced into exile by the Action Group- led government of the Western Region of Nigeria, as a result of the death of the Deputy leader...
Canoeing specialist Bill Havens was almost guaranteed to win a gold medal in the 1924 Olympics in Paris. But a few months before the games he learned that his wife would likely give birth to their first child while he was...
When Omotunde “Adaku” Adebowale (a graduate of Law from Lagos State University) left law school, she wanted a career in the media industry. She approached many media outfits, including Channels TV and even Galaxy TV but she was rejected. In fact,...
One day, Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother”. His mother’s eyes were tearful and young Thomas...
No sitting American President had more enemies than Abraham Lincoln. He had a great strategy for destroying them; he befriended them. In fact, one of them would eventually take his life. Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) were enemies,...
Peter Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. He was the only family member with this abnormality, both his parents and his older brother Jonathan having the right heights. Despite being just 4 feet 5 inches (135 cm), he...
Niccolò Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) is considered one of the greatest violinists of all time. He was a virtuoso, performing his first concert at age eleven. His great technical ability revolutionized violin technique across Europe. When he...
Born in Kano, on April 10, 1957 in the then Northern Region of British Nigeria, Aliko Dangote was born to Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata. An ethnic Hausa from Kano State, he showed his love for business by selling sweets...
An 18-year-old student was struggling to pay his fees at Stanford University. He was an orphan, and not knowing where to turn for money, he came up with a bright idea. A friend and he decided to host a musical concert...
