Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853–1857) who was addicted to and suffered from alcoholism throughout his life. Pierce, a New-Englander was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. He attended Bowdoin...
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...
Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was a Nigerian Army Officer who took part and spearheaded the January 15, 1966 military coup in the Northern Region, especially in Kaduna, the Region’s capital, which led to the deaths of the Premier of the...
The capture of Kano by the British Royal West African Frontier Force signalled the end of the Fulani Empire in West Africa. The Fulani people were nomadic cattle-herders and fierce horsemen, who in the early 1800s, imbued with zeal for Islam,...
The thirteenth President of America, Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874), was the first President to be born in the 1800s, first to have running water in the White House and the last Whig to occupy the White...
Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was the first Nigerian to become an officer in Military Intelligence. Born in 1937, he was only 20 when he joined the Nigerian Army in March 1957. From officer training in Teshie, Ghana, the young man...
The military coup of January 15, 1966, is a critical aspect of Nigeria’s history that saw the death of leading politicians and Army officers of the First Republic. In the aftermath of the coup, Major-General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi came to power...
After murdering Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region, in a bloody coup in the early hours of January 15, 1966, Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu then proceeded to kill Colonel Ralph Shodeinde, his superior officer at the Nigerian...
Citizens of Nigeria, it is with a heart full of gratitude to God that I announce to you that today marks the formal end of the civil war. This afternoon at Dodan Barracks, Lt. Col. Phillip Effiong, Lt. Col. David Ogunewe,...
“And I would like therefore to take this opportunity to say that: I, Major-General Philip Effiong, Officer of Peace Administering the Government of the Republic of Biafra, now wish to make the following declaration: “That we affirm we are loyal Nigerian...
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,...
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwakuche–Nwapa (January 13, 1931 – October 16, 1993), best known as Flora Nwapa, was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African literature. The forerunner to a generation of African women writers, she is...
Standing majestically at the height of 105 meters in the middle of the Dugbe Business District Centre of the ancient city of Ibadan, Nigeria, the magnificent 26-storey Cocoa House is the first skyscraper in tropical Africa and was the tallest building...
