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 ...
As military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida inherited two nicknames from the Nigerian press: ...
The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) recorded three thousand, two hundred and ...
While Bola Ige was shot and killed in Ibadan, Funsho Williams was stabbed and strangled ...
Kashim Ibrahim was the first and last indigenous civilian governor of the Northern Region of ...
Joseph Gomwalk was only 41 years old when he was executed on May 15, 1976, ...
The April 22, 1990, Gideon Orkar coup led to the speedy movement of the federal ...