Historical Nigeria https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Esien Esien Ukpabio: 2 Defining Milestones in the Rise of Indigenous Leadership in Old Calabar Home The Pro-Abacha Rally in Ibadan Nene Etule: The Remarkable Story of the Cameroonian Who Won Miss Nigeria in 1959 Ndubuisi Kanu: The Igbo Naval Officer Who Fought for Biafra and Later Governed Lagos State Obasanjo’s Letters to Gowon: 4 Revealing Wartime Dispatches from Nigeria’s Civil War Ethel Finecountry: The Interpreter in a 1924 Methodist Mission Photograph from Ama Achara Brigadier Frank Job Goulson: The Fatal 1962 Road Accident That Ended His Military Career in Nigeria Olunloyo at Ilesa Grammar School: The Remarkable 1968 Photograph and the Story of Two Nigerian Teachers Early Motor Transport in Southern Nigeria: How Five Vans Connected Ibadan and Oyo in 1908 Femi Foto: The Remarkable Photographer Who Documented Fela Kuti’s World Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi: 100 Capsules, a Disputed Drug Conviction and His Execution in Singapore Ado Bayero: The Remarkable 50-Year Reign of Kano’s Longest-Serving Emir Nigeria’s Census Crisis: Two Disputed Counts and the Struggle for Power in the First Republic Boniface Obichere: The Remarkable Nigerian Historian Who Advanced African Studies in America 4 Major Political Crises of the Nigeria’s First Republic Nigeria’s First Republic: 4 Critical Events Behind Its Collapse How British Newspapers Described Nigerian Footballers in 1949 Who Were the Players on Nigeria’s 1949 England Tour? When Nigeria’s Footballers Took England by Storm, Barefoot Sikiru Adepoju: The Remarkable Journey from Yoruba Talking Drums to a Grammy and Tupac’s Poetry Album The Historic Photograph of Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny Adé Nchikọ Ọrụ: How Traditional Igbo Farm Labour Strengthened Communities Dele Ndubuisi Udo: The Tragic Death of Nigeria’s 24-Year-Old Olympic Sprinter in 1981 Baba Sala in 1990: The Remarkable Story of His 8 Wives, 28 Children, 3 Houses and the Film That Cost Him His Fortune The Strange Return of a Wanted Civil Servant Who Came Back With a Promotion How Abdulrasheed Maina Went From Pension Fraud Hunter to Wanted Man When Public Anger Turned Into Fire: Why Hanifa’s School Was Burned Hanifa Abubakar’s Death: The Five Year Old Girl Who Disappeared on Her Way Home and the Case That Shook Kano The Missing Blankets at the Centre of a 1979 Kano Murder Case The Kano Murder Case That Became a Supreme Court Battle Why Petrol Was More Important Than the Weapons on Flight 470 They Boarded a Plane With Toy Guns, Then Hijacked It Between 2003 and 2009, Nobody Could Find Toyin Igbira A ₦20 Million Vault, Diamonds and a Drug Empire: The Toyin Igbira Story Rosaline Omotosho Was Nigeria’s First Female Chief Judge, But Her Story Goes Much Further Sophie Oluwole Could Find Socrates in Her Textbooks. Where Was Òrúnmìlà? Dipo Dina’s 2007 Election Challenge: The Political Battle Before the Murder The Investigation Into Dipo Dina’s Death That Produced Suspects but No Answer What They Left Out of the Story of Elizabeth Awoliyi Tanimowo Ogunlesi: The Teacher Who Put Nigerian Girls at the Centre of Politics Laila Dogonyaro and the 300,000 Women WOLF Wanted for 2003 Yemi Ayebo: How “Yemi My Lover” Made a Star Out of a Yoruba Filmmaker Deborah Fasoyin: The Woman Behind Nigeria’s Famous December Song Bisoye Tejuoso: The Business Breakup That Built an Empire Anike Agbaje-Williams: The Woman Who Became Nigeria’s First Television Face Why They Called Grace Alele-Williams the “Iron Lady” of UNIBEN Etso Ugbodaga Ngu: The Nigerian Woman Behind a Generation of Modern Artists In 1996, Nkechi Nwankwo Asked Nigeria a Question It Still Hasn’t Answered Three People Were in the Car. Only One Was Killed. What Happened That Night?