Category: Sports History

Image of Opening Ceremony of the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games, July 17, 1976.

January 19, 2019

Why Nigeria, others boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games

The Olympic Games offer a uniquely peaceful and mutually respectful meeting-place for the nations of the world to showcase their skills in various sporting events. However, it hasn’t always been that way, and the Olympics were once a particularly bright flashpoint...

People & Places / Sports History

December 8, 2018

Nigeria’s First Goalkeeper: Sam Henshaw Ibiam, the Black Magnet

Sam Henshaw Ibiam (April 4, 1925—December 2, 2015), popularly known as “The Black Magnet” during his playing days, was a Nigerian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for the pioneer Nigerian national football team who were regarded to as the “1949...

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The Prime Minister and the Finance Minister had just been abducted and their whereabouts unknown.

The Premiers of the Northern and Western Region had been murdered with some senior military officers. There had been a coup, a mutiny and a carnage by a group of junior officers. The first time in the nation.

However, the Head of the Army outmanoeuvred the boys and crushed the rebellion which eventually marked the end of the First Republic.

The events of January 15, 1966 marked a turning point in the history of Nigeria and will forever go down as one of the nation's most defining moments.