The full story of how the political rivalry between Ladoke Akintola and Obafemi Awolowo led ...
When the swine flu spread to Lagos in 2012, Ameyo Adadevoh was the first doctor ...
Abeokuta was a sovereign nation for 20 years and 11 months before the British amalgamated ...
The death of Ernest Okonkwo on August 7, 1990, apparently marked the death of apt ...
Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti holds the record of the longest-serving president of the Nigeria Union of ...
July 29 remains a significant day in Nigeria’s history as the three men who changed ...
It took five attempts to hang Ken Saro-Wiwa before he spoke his last words and ...
In light of this, FIFA banned India from playing football for years because the Indians ...
Niger, Katsina, Kano and Ogun States are the only states to have produced two Nigerian ...
Samuel Ladoke Akintola was responsible for the establishment of the University of Ife in 1962 ...
A majority of Nigeria's 36 states got their names from rivers, urban legends, and acronym ...
Umaru Dikko fled to London through the Republic of Benin...to Togo and took a flight ...
Emeka Ojukwu could speak Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, English, French, and Latin fluently. Interestingly, during the ...
As the Federal Minister of Finance, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh was instrumental in the founding of ...
In 1994, at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela in South Africa, MKO Abiola sat on ...
With the fears that the power vacuum would lead to anarchy and a possible military ...
In 1995, after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Time magazine named Abacha “Thug of the ...
During her lifetime, Dora Akunyili received 820 awards. After her death, 110 more were discovered ...
In 1953, Sir Ahmadu Bello referred to Nigeria as the "mistake of 1914". Interestingly, the ...
Samuel Adegboyega was named Gbadebo after Oba Gbadebo I, the sixth Alake of Egbaland, Abeokuta, ...