Rahman, a diehard fan of fuji music wrote: “There was no other place this battle was more vicious than in my parents living room. You see, my Dad was a diehard Kollington fan, while my Mum loved Barrister to pieces. So as a child, I grew up listening to music from both of them and…
The Eastern Nigerian provincial emergency of 1953 began on January 30, 1953 and finished on May 6, 1953. The Public Chamber of Nigerian and Cameroon (NCNC) larger part transformed itself into a resistance and as such killed the bills that was brought to it including the allotment bill. The lead representative needed to involve his…
Boss Dr. Harry Akande was the most extravagant Nigerian before Alhaji Aliko Dangote. In 2001, a rundown of thieves and the most extravagant Nigerians was delivered and Harry Akande was a way more extravagant than the thieves. The first page of The Punch (2001) detailed that Boss Akande procured a month to month pay of…
Like each and every other normal African American, James Churchwill Vaughan carried on with a respectable life attempting to earn enough to get by in America regardless of a few cultural issues that generally put the African American population a few stages behind the white local area. Brought into the world in South Carolina in…
The pre-provincial political organization in Yoruba land is one of the most well known among the pre-pioneer frameworks or organizations in Nigeria. Before the coming of the English in Yoruba land, Yoruba realms kept an efficient and bound together political framework which is still active till today. A realm or do1main in pre-pioneer Yoruba land,…
Prince Idubor, also known as Arhuanran (sometimes spelled Aruanran), was supposed to be the Oba (King) of Benin because the great kingdom was doing well at the time. However, legend has it that his birthright was given to his younger brother, Esigie, who was born on the same day as Idubor. How It Happened Oba…
I put pen to paper in this white bread with a blazing lamp and an overflowing pool of thoughts. Even though it isn’t as good as Woolwich’s, I like the shelter here. The back window of the house shows the young bronze sun in the morning with a thousand birds streaking below, like moving black…
In 1843, Sarah Forbes Bonetta was born “Aina” to Yoruba parents of the Egbado ethnicity. Her father was the high chief of Oke-Odan, an Egbado village in western Nigeria until he was killed in 1848 when his village was raided by King Gezo of Dahomey, one of the notorious 19th-century slave raiders. In the raid…
Nigeria is partitioned into six international zones which comprise of states with close topographical area, comparable history, societies and political philosophies. The six international zones in Nigeria were made during the tactical system of President Ibrahim Babangida. Nigeria’s financial, political and instructive assets are much of the time shared across the zones. The following is…
Hugh Clapperton, who was he? Hugh Clapperton, a Scottish explorer and naval officer, was the first European to return to the Hausaland or northern Nigeria region with a firsthand and authentic account. In December 1823, he was also the first European to consume Miyan Kuka at Kuka (now Kukawa), the capital of the Borno Empire.…