A photo of a young Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala taken while she was an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka with her boyfriend, Mr. Iweala. After a few years, the two of them got married. Her husband is a neurosurgeon from Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria. The author Uzodinma Iweala is one of their four children.
Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo questioned the approach of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to the battle in daring letters he wrote to General Yakubu Gowon, the then-head of state, while the Nigerian civil war was raging. In the final eight months of the war, Colonel Obasanjo led the Nigerian Army’s Third Marine Commando. He would go on to become Head of State (1976–1979) and civilian president (1999–2007). Before the conflict was eventually over, he wrote more than seven personal letters to Yakubu Gowon, the ruler of state at the time. The war continued unabated until 1969, when it had entered its second year. To invigorate the troops, the Nigerian Army Headquarters in Lagos released new operational directives on May 9, 1969. Three days later, the Army’s three division commanders were revealed to have changed. Colonel Gibson Jalo succeeded Colonel Mohammed Shuwa as the commander of the First Division, Colonel Iliya Bisalla succeeded Colonel Ibrahim Haruna as the commander of the Second Division, and Colonel Obasanjo succeeded Colonel Benjamin Adekunle (also known as Black Scorpion) as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Third Marine Commando. On May 16, Obasanjo, a colonel at the age of 30, arrived in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, to take up his new responsibilities at the front lines of the battle. Three weeks after arriving in Port Harcourt, Obasanjo reportedly wrote a six-page letter to the head of state on June 10, 1969, according to The Letterman. “I have visited all of my areas of operation in the last three weeks, and I have seen as much of the terrain as I can. While things are not good overall, there is yet possibility for improvement if quick action is done. Since my arrival, I have also attempted to describe in my two presentations the difficult and declining relationship among the 3MCDO officers. It is equally important to note that there is hope for a better future in this direction. I can say with absolute certainty that the Division’s fighting spirit remains intact, and morale is typically rising, despite numerous inadequacies and… which will be detailed later. Any amount of success, no matter how tiny, will keep spirits high. Next, he pleaded with the president to immediately order Army Headquarters to provide the required manpower and supplies “in order to expedite the conclusion of the war before Armed Forces personnel and civilians become demoralized, frustrated, and dissatisfied.” Obasanjo specifically requested that General Gowon approve…
At the Commonwealth Summit in Lagos, Nigeria, an iconic picture of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria, Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda, and President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, taken. January 13, 1966.
The unexpected occurred on Friday, October 6, 1995, between 8.15 and 8.30 am. In front of Pa Alfred Rewane’s residence at 100 Oduduwa Crescent, G.R.A., Ikeja, Lagos, a Peugeot 504 automobile screamed to a stop. Five men got out of the car’s belly looking like murderers from the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. They went up to the guard and explained that they were there to visit the landlord in order to deliver a crucial message from Life Flour Mills in Sapele. The business is owned by Pa Rewane. They pushed a document in front of the gatekeeper. He quickly unscrewed the gate from its lubricated hinges. The men came in. Head was heading upstairs to let the domestic staff know he had some visitors. Together with the aide, two of the men ascended the steps. While the others were occupied with the landlord upstairs, they had taken two of the Chief’s daughters captive. The attackers fired numerous rounds into the defenseless elderly man’s body. He passed away. Rewane was born in Warri, Nigeria, to Jemide Erewarone’s family. His full name at birth was Ogbeyiwa Erewarone. Rewane’s father was an Agbor-based businessman. During the period that his father was away from Warri, Rewane remained with his uncle, who was a devout follower at the time and gave Rewane his first name, Alfred. He received his education in Warri at the African School and later the Government School. Rewane did not continue his schooling after being accepted to Dennis Memorial Grammar School for his secondary education. He began his career with UAC as a manager trainee and eventually rose to the position of beach master at Lagos Customs Wharf. The image above was captured in the early 1970s during Muhammad Ali’s tour to Nigeria while serving as an ambassador for Ovaltine.Ovaltine Nigeria had Alfred Ogbeyiwa Rewane as a key shareholder. After leaving UAC in the 1940s, he concentrated on importing products, particularly black pepper and cow bones. In the 1950s, he also got involved in the wood trade and owned the Rex club in Yaba, Lagos, where Bobby Benson performed frequently. Rewane was a member of the Action Group during Nigeria’s pre-independence period. He rose to…
An old photo of Kashim Shettima, the vice president of Nigeria and a former senator and governor of Borno State, with his pals during his time at the University of Maiduguri in Borno State.
There have been fights here for a long time. The Kibaku, also known as the Chibok ethnic group, are comprised of 38 distinct clans and sub-clans that speak the same language. They initially arrived in the Chibok hills in the 1700s. There, they battled off the forces of the British (the Kibaku were the last people to submit to British power), Borno, the Sudanese slave trader, and Rabah Fadallah, Africa’s most infamous slave trader during the late 1800s and the early 1900s.
Corona School Ikoyi is one of the seven Corona Schools that were founded between 1955 and 2008. It was founded in February of 1960. The school was founded with a block of classrooms that could house the initial group of students from various countries. It is situated at No. 6 Mekunwen Road, Ikoyi. Mrs. Jean Abili, the first Headmistress, served from 1960 to 1998. Professor Osinbajo was born in Lagos in 1957 and holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Lagos. He soon began lecturing at the University of Lagos and continued to practice law on a private basis until 1999. Osinbajo was named Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu’s cabinet that same year. Osinbajo left government in 2007 after serving during both of Tinubu’s four-year administrations. He then resumed his private practice, gave lectures, and followed his calling to become a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He became the vice president in 2015 under the Buhari administration.
This old picture offers a distinctive viewpoint of a location in Ibadan in 1972 and a glimpse into the city at that time.
An old photo of Union Trading Company PLC, also referred to as UTC PLC, was publicly listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 1961 and was a diversified company formed in Switzerland. Swiss traders who were connected to the Basel Mission and the Basel Trading Company created it with the intention of donating a portion of their profits to the mission’s operations. Before entering the Nigerian market, the traders had prior business interest in Ghana and India. Before the First World War, the corporation had a successful cocoa business in Ghana. Years later, in 1932, the group opened a subsidiary in Nigeria. Through trade and acquisitions, the company expanded into Nigeria, where it established a number of subsidiaries, including HF Schroeder, UTC Foods, Dorman Long Nigeria, Amalgamated Metal Containers, and a motors division. UTC’s revenues soared from 150 million francs to around 1.5 billion francs during Nigeria’s oil boom, which followed World War II and led to a rise in merchandise importation into the country.
Ramsey Noah, a Nigerian actor, has revealed several secrets that we were unaware of for years. Ramsey Noah revealed that he was the brand’s eight-year-old face when sharing a picture of Blue Band margarine. Filming today is more comfortable, the renowned actor claims, after realizing how tiresome the brand’s commercial video production was. He stated, what do you think? That’s me when I was the 8-year-old brand ambassador for BLUE BAND. God had obviously planned for me to be the center of attention from the moment I was born. I realized how comfortable filming today is when I think back on how tiresome the commercial’s still and video shoot was. The camera was enormous, and the lights were so big that they could cook croaker fish with their heat. It wasn’t humorous at all that they had to take off my clothes more than four times to iron off the perspiration because I was perspiring so much. And now that it has happened, I am filled with nostalgia for it and the development of our industry since then.