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 ...
Murtala Muhammed remains the youngest Nigerian Head-of-State to die in office at the age of ...
As of the time of his death in 1955, Alhaji Alhassan Dantata was the richest ...
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912- January 15, 1966) was Nigeria's first Prime Minister. He was ...
Major Kaduna Nzeogwu was the first Nigerian to become an officer in Military Intelligence. Born ...
In his No Victor, No Vanquished speech on January 15, 1970, General Yakubu Gowon asserted ...
Flora Nwapa (1931–1993), was the first African woman to publish a novel in the English ...
The first church service which ushered in Christianity to Abeokuta took place on Sunday, January ...