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Before the Killers Came: How George Iwilade Became OAU’s “Afrika”

On 10 July 1999, armed attackers entered Awolowo Hall at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, and killed five students. Among them was George Akinyemi Iwilade, the General Secretary of the university’s Students’ Union, popularly known as “Afrika”.The attack turned Iwilade into one of the most enduring names in the history of Nigerian student activism....

MILITARY ERA

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Yakubu Gowon: The Bible Story, the Army, and the Burden of Nigeria’s Survival

General Ologbosere: The Benin Warrior Who Refused to Surrender Against British Colonial Rule

Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power

MILITARY ERA

The German Hands Behind Nigeria’s First Air Force

Obasanjo’s Quiet London Wedding in 1963

The London Hemp Case That Embarrassed Gowon’s Military Government

The Death of Francis Fajuyi and the Honour Nigeria Never Forgot

The $12.2bn Question: Newswatch, IBB and Nigeria’s $12.4bn Oil Windfall Controversy

Yakubu Gowon: The Bible Story, the Army, and the Burden of Nigeria’s Survival

General Ologbosere: The Benin Warrior Who Refused to Surrender Against British Colonial Rule

Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power

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BIOGRAPHIES

Rosemary Nkem Anieze Adams: The Woman Who Became the Face of Nigeria’s Independence

Bendel Brewery Limited: The Rise, Glory, and Legacy of Benin City’s Brewing Giant

Alhaji Maidalla Mustapha Aliyu, The Emir Who Preserved the Soul of Biu Through Three Decades of Leadership

Hajiya Hafsatu: The Brave Woman Who Gave Everything to Protect the Sardauna of Sokoto

Alhaja Seriki Jarnatu: The Influential Yoruba Market Queen Whose Legacy of Leadership and Generosity Still Inspires

The Wedding That Gave Nigeria Hope: Inside the Historic Marriage of Yakubu Gowon and Victoria Zakari Gowon

Sunset in Biafra: The Memoir That Gave a Human Face to Nigeria’s Civil War

Maryam Babangida: The First Lady Who Changed the Lives of Millions of Nigerian Women

MILITARY ERA

The German Hands Behind Nigeria’s First Air Force

Obasanjo’s Quiet London Wedding in 1963

The London Hemp Case That Embarrassed Gowon’s Military Government

The Death of Francis Fajuyi and the Honour Nigeria Never Forgot

The $12.2bn Question: Newswatch, IBB and Nigeria’s $12.4bn Oil Windfall Controversy

Yakubu Gowon: The Bible Story, the Army, and the Burden of Nigeria’s Survival

General Ologbosere: The Benin Warrior Who Refused to Surrender Against British Colonial Rule

Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power

CIVIL WARS

Mohammed Shuwa: The Civil War General Whose Death Exposed Nigeria’s New Security Crisis

The General Who Survived Nigeria’s Civil War, Then Fell in Maiduguri

Angelica Oyediran and the Quiet Work of Returning Biafra’s Displaced Children

Adekunle Fajuyi and the July 1966 Crisis

Why Ojukwu Declared Biafra After Killings, Fear, and the Collapse of Nigeria’s First Union

The Nigerian Civil War and Why Its Memory Still Divides Nigeria

Why Many in Eastern Nigeria Stopped Believing Nigeria Could Protect Them After 1966

The Igbo Pogroms of 1966

PRE-COLONIAL NIGERIA

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Oba Michael Kuye Arójòjoyè II and the Royal Reawakening of Ijebu-Jesha

Yoruba Civilisation Did Not Begin With 14th Century Oyo

Ilori the Osi and the Ibadan Crisis at Jalumi

When Ibadan Entered Ikirun, Akirun Oyebode’s Relief Marked a Critical Moment in the Jalumi War

NIGERIAN HISTORY

Before the Killers Came: How George Iwilade Became OAU’s “Afrika”

The Night They Came for Afrika: Inside the July 10, 1999 OAU Massacre

The OAU Five: Twenty Seven Years After the Massacre, Why No One Was Convicted

Before the OAU Massacre: How George “Afrika” Iwilade Confronted Campus Cultism

They Killed Afrika, but Not His Cause: Why OAU Still Remembers the July 10 Massacre

Rosemary Nkem Anieze Adams: The Woman Who Became the Face of Nigeria’s Independence

Bendel Brewery Limited: The Rise, Glory, and Legacy of Benin City’s Brewing Giant

Alhaji Maidalla Mustapha Aliyu, The Emir Who Preserved the Soul of Biu Through Three Decades of Leadership

DEMOCRATIC NIGERIA

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Sunday Best in 1974 Lagos: Bruno Barbey’s Photograph of Faith, Fashion and Urban Respectability

The African Diplomatic Pressure Behind Mandela’s Rivonia Sentence

Nigeria, 1964: The Photograph That Revealed a Nation’s Battle for Books

Umuahia’s National War Museum and the Burden of Nigeria’s Civil War Memory

Fred Ajudua and the Decades Long Fraud Trial That Tested Nigeria’s Justice System

IMB Plaza, The Lagos Glass Landmark That Survived as Number One Lagos

INDEPENDENCE

How Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group Changed Western Nigeria Forever

Shagari, Ambrose Alli and Bendel’s Battle Over Federal Revenue

Flora Azikiwe and the Quiet Burden of Nigeria’s First First Lady

How the Sokoto Caliphate Reshaped Hausa Political Identity

Al-Kanemi and the Survival of Borno in the Age of the Sokoto Jihad

The Nigerian Engineer Who Helped Write the Nation’s Anthem and Built a Global Academic Legacy

Mbari Club, Ibadan and the Rise of Nigeria’s Modern Cultural Renaissance

How Awolowo Tried to Hold Nigeria Together, Through Federalism, Regions, and Real Development

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