Ironsi's proclamation of Decree 34 on May 24, 1966, marked the beginning of the end for him. The ...
On January 1, 1973, the Nigerian Naira replaced the Nigerian pound with an exchange rate of ₦2 to ...
Mobolaji Johnson was only 31 years old when he was appointed as the first military governor of Lagos ...
After Abacha's death, Lieutenant-General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, was sworn in as the country's 11th ...
Joseph Gomwalk was only 41 years old when he was executed on May 15, 1976, in Lagos, the ...
The April 22, 1990, Gideon Orkar coup led to the rapid relocation of the federal capital from Lagos ...
Dele Giwa kept moaning the refrain, “They have got me.” Who he referred to as “they” still remains ...
July 29 remains a significant day in Nigeria’s history as the three men who changed the fate of ...
Umaru Dikko fled Nigeria through the Republic of Benin to Togo and took a flight to London from ...
Nigeria had been driving with British imported right-hand-drive cars, but after the civil war, it shifted to using ...