Osadebe and his band were billed to perform outside the country. He lodged his crew at a hotel close to the airport and instructed them...
In July 1961, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Prime Minister of Nigeria, visited the White House in Washington, D.C., where he was formally received by...
The photograph referenced is of Victor Adebukunola Banjo, a Nigerian Army officer whose career intersected dramatically with the political crises that followed the January 15,...
In 1906, Obalende became a resettlement site for soldiers and the veterans of the Royal West Force (RWAFF). Hence, the name, Obalende was given by...
Sir David Hunt served as the United Kingdom’s High Commissioner to Nigeria from 1967 to 1969, a period that coincided with the outbreak and most...
On 17 May 1933, Abubakar Olusola Saraki was born in Ilorin, in present-day Kwara State, Nigeria. Though he would later become one of the most...
In 1964, Western Nigeria was engulfed in intense political crisis. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, leader of the opposition and a dominant political figure in the Western...
The image shows a German military bicycle from the early 20th century, identified as a Herrenrad Victoria model used during World War I. Spring Wheel...
They went to appeal directly to Nigeria’s Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, seeking clemency for their friend and colleague, Mamman Vatsa, a Major-General in the...
After his tor*ture and exe*cut*ion by soldiers led by Major Theophilus Danjuma, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first military Head of State, was buried in...
