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, ...
Ibadan was founded by the Yoruba people in 1750. It became a Yoruba military headquarters ...
It was impossible for Bashorun Gaa to become an Alaafin of the Oyo Empire as ...
Alvan Ikoku and his son, Samuel Goomsu Ikoku (1922–1997), were political rivals. Samuel won an ...
Nigeria had been driving with British imported right-hand-drive cars, but after the civil war, it ...
Chinua Achebe twice declined the Nigerian award of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) in ...
Gambo Sawaba was an Amazon and an enigma in the 20th century Northern Nigeria. Right ...
Aguiyi-Ironsi adopted the name “Johnson” as his first name from his elder sister’s husband, Theophilus ...
Shehu Shagari was the 6th child of his father, 6th Head-of-State of Nigeria, and also ...
Usman dan Fodio wrote more than a hundred books on religion, administration, culture, and community. ...
President Goodluck Jonathan promised to revive the Groundnut Pyramids but he failed to fulfil that ...