Babangida and Abacha’s paths crossed because they were ranking officers of the Nigerian Army, during a period marked ...
President Jimmy Carter was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Nigeria, underscoring the country's strategic importance as ...
Murtala Muhammed remains the youngest Nigerian Head-of-State to die in office and the only one to die before ...
Nigeria’s Third Republic, which began as a transition programme in 1992, was eventually buried by General Sani Abacha ...
Nigeria's Second Republic, which fell on December 31, 1983, has been described as being ‘prebendal’. Shehu Shagari ruled ...
Nigeria’s First Republic lasted for less than three years until it fell on January 15, 1966, after the ...
In 1979, General Olusegun Obasanjo ditched the British-style parliamentary system and opted for the American-style presidential system... ...
Ironsi's proclamation of Decree 34 on May 24, 1966, marked the beginning of the end for him. The ...
On January 1, 1973, the Nigerian Naira replaced the Nigerian pound with an exchange rate of ₦2 to ...
Mobolaji Johnson was only 31 years old when he was appointed as the first military governor of Lagos ...
After Abacha's death, Lieutenant-General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, was sworn in as the country's 11th ...
In January 1967, representatives from the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Eastern Region met in Ghana to ...
Joseph Gomwalk was only 41 years old when he was executed on May 15, 1976, in Lagos, the ...
The April 22, 1990, Gideon Orkar coup led to the speedy movement of the federal capital from Lagos ...
Dele Giwa kept moaning the refrain, “They have got me.” Who he referred to as “they” still remains ...
The full story of how the political rivalry between Ladoke Akintola and Obafemi Awolowo led to Nigeria's First ...
July 29 remains a significant day in Nigeria’s history as the three men who changed the fate of ...
Umaru Dikko fled to London through the Republic of Benin...to Togo and took a flight to London from ...
Nigeria had been driving with British imported right-hand-drive cars, but after the civil war, it shifted to using ...