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Interesting Facts
Ibadan was founded by the Yoruba people in 1750. It became a Yoruba military headquarters in 1829 and came under British rule in 1893...
Abeokuta was a sovereign nation for 20 years and 11 months before the British amalgamated her with the rest of Nigeria in 1914...
Niger, Katsina, Kano and Ogun States are the only states to have produced two Nigerian leaders who have ruled the country.
On December 5, 1893, Herbert Macaulay became the first Nigerian to qualify as a civil engineer and a member of the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
First Republic
(1960-1966)
Nigeria’s First Republic lasted for less than three years until it fell on January 15, 1966, after the country’s first military coup.
The full story of how the political rivalry between Ladoke Akintola and Obafemi Awolowo led to Nigeria's First Coup D'état in 1966...
Professor Saburi Biobaku least expected it. A radical student activist...surged forward from the crowd and stabbed the Vice-Chancellor at the back...
People & Places
As the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello is still venerated by millions of Nigerians, ...
Second Republic (1979-1983)
Nigeria's Second Republic, which fell on December 31, 1983, has been described ...
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Fourth Republic
(1999 to date)
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu allegedly labelled incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari as an “ethnic bigot and a religious fanatic” in 2003.
The October 2020 EndSARS Protest in Nigeria actively lasted for 17 days; from October 7, 2020, to October 24, 2020.
Olusegun Obasanjo created the EFCC and the ICPC to combat corruption. He also ntroduced the GSM to improve communication in Nigeria...
While Bola Ige was shot and killed in Ibadan, Funsho Williams was stabbed and strangled to death at his home in Lagos.
The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
The Nigerian civil war witnessed the death of about one to three million Nigerians, with the majority being from the Eastern region.
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War or the Nigeria-Biafra War, was a war fought to counter the secession of the Republic of Biafra from Nigeria.
The Ogbunigwe was used in combat during the Nigerian civil war and at the height of production, about 500 units were being produced every day in Biafra.
In January 1967, representatives from the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Eastern Region met in Ghana to agree on what is now known as the Aburi Accord...
Latest Posts
On June 6, 2018, Buhari declared that Nigeria’s Democracy Day would be celebrated as a national holiday every year on June 12 instead of May 29.
As the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello is still venerated by millions of Nigerians, especially among his kinsmen in Northern Nigeria.
Obafemi Awolowo rose to become the first Premier of the Western Region of Nigeria and the leader of the Action Group Party in the First Republic.
Murtala Muhammed remains the youngest Nigerian Head-of-State to die in office and the only one to die before the age of 40.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu allegedly labelled incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari as an “ethnic bigot and a religious fanatic” in 2003.
In April 1963, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi of Kano flouted the First Law of Power and was deposed by the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello...
The Super Eagles made its debut at the 1994 edition of the World Cup. Since its debut, the team has only failed to qualify for the tournament twice.
The Nigerian Football Team was not known as the Super Eagles from its inception in 1949. The football team was known as the...Green Eagles.