As the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello is still venerated by millions of Nigerians, especially among his ...

Obafemi Awolowo rose to become the first Premier of the Western Region of Nigeria and the leader of ...

Popularly known as "Zik" or "The Great Zik of Africa", Nnamdi Azikiwe was Nigeria’s first president at the ...

Before Emeka Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra in May 1967, Isaac Adaka Boro had declared the Niger ...

At around 3:30 p.m. on August 26, 1993, Ernest Shonekan was sworn in as Nigeria’s new Head of ...

Lagos was the capital city of Nigeria for 77 years until the seat of government was moved to ...

Onitsha became part of the British protectorate in 1884 which made the British colonial government and Christian missionaries ...

Abeokuta, the story of the home of the Egba people, started with their liberation from the rulership of ...

Jonathan Adagogo Green was also responsible for the now very famous photograph of Oba Ovonramwen of Benin in ...

Ore Green worked in London, before returning in 1917 to Lagos where she first worked as a Midwife ...

As military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida inherited two nicknames from the Nigerian press: Evil Genius and ...

The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) recorded three thousand, two hundred and three (3,203) oil ...

Kashim Ibrahim was the first and last indigenous civilian governor of the Northern Region of Nigeria until the ...

Josiah Ransome-Kuti was also the first Nigerian to release a record album after he recorded many hymns (in ...

Although Calabar was the capital of this new Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, most of the colonial, diplomatic activities ...

Hadiza Oboh was the first and only female pilot of the defunct Nigeria Airways in the 1990s. She ...

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was described in 1947 as the "Lioness of Lisabi” for her leadership and campaign against arbitrary ...

Adegoke Adelabu is often mentioned in Yorùbá and Nigerian history as the author of "penkelemesi", a Yorubanisation of ...

When the swine flu spread to Lagos in 2012, Ameyo Adadevoh was the first doctor to diagnose and ...

Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti holds the record of the longest-serving president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (23 years) ...

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