At around 3:30 p.m. on August 26, 1993, Ernest Shonekan was sworn in as Nigeria’s ...
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War or the Nigeria-Biafra War, was ...
Another of Nigeria’s founding fathers was Olayinka Hebert Macaulay who has been referred to as ...
Mobolaji Johnson was only 31 years old when he was appointed as the first military ...
Olusegun Obasanjo created the EFCC and the ICPC to combat corruption. He also ntroduced the ...
The Ogbunigwe was used in combat during the Nigerian civil war and at the height ...
Montréal was the first Canadian city to hold an Olympic Games in 1976. The 21st ...
The June 12, 1993, presidential election represented a break with past traditions of ethnic, religious, ...
After Abacha's death, Lieutenant-General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, was sworn in as ...
Lagos was the capital city of Nigeria for 77 years until the seat of government ...
On December 5, 1893, Herbert Macaulay became the first Nigerian to qualify as a civil ...
The West African country of Nigeria was never a nation. The country was bought and ...
Indirect Rule was a system of governance that was predominantly used by Britain to govern ...
Onitsha became part of the British protectorate in 1884 which made the British colonial government ...
Abeokuta, the story of the home of the Egba people, started with their liberation from ...
Jonathan Adagogo Green was Nigeria’s first known professional photographer and one of the earliest documented ...
In January 1967, representatives from the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Eastern Region met ...
In 1912, Lord Frederick Lugard was appointed Governor-General of both Northern and Southern Nigeria with ...
Ore Green worked in London, before returning in 1917 to Lagos where she first worked ...
Kanem-Bornu, now in present-day Northern Nigeria, was the only real opposition to Usman dan Fodio's ...