Adegoke Adelabu is often mentioned in Yorùbá and Nigerian history as the author of "penkelemesi", a Yorubanisation of ...
When the swine flu spread to Lagos in 2012, Ameyo Adadevoh was the first doctor to diagnose and ...
Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti holds the record of the longest-serving president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (23 years) ...
It took five attempts to hang Ken Saro-Wiwa before he spoke his last words and his body went ...
Samuel Ladoke Akintola was responsible for the establishment of the University of Ife in 1962 and the creation ...
Emeka Ojukwu could speak Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, English, French, and Latin fluently. Interestingly, during the civil war, he ...
As the Federal Minister of Finance, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh was instrumental in the founding of Nigeria's Central Bank ...
In 1994, at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela in South Africa, MKO Abiola sat on the seat reserved ...
During her lifetime, Dora Akunyili received 820 awards. After her death, 110 more were discovered in her boxes, ...
Samuel Adegboyega was named Gbadebo after Oba Gbadebo I, the sixth Alake of Egbaland, Abeokuta, as he was ...
Chinua Achebe twice declined the Nigerian award of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) in 2004 and 2011. ...
Gambo Sawaba was an Amazon and an enigma in the 20th century Northern Nigeria. Right from the start, ...
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912- January 15, 1966) was Nigeria's first Prime Minister. He was popularly known as ...
Major Kaduna Nzeogwu was the first Nigerian to become an officer in Military Intelligence. Born on February 26, ...
Flora Nwapa (1931–1993), was the first African woman to publish a novel in the English language in 1966. ...
Professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike was the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and the roaming Ambassador ...
As Minister of Defence, Muhammadu Ribadu presided over a rapid expansion of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, as ...