Tag: Nigeria History

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua returned home after 90 days treatment Police killed three protestors in Sagamu, Ogun Cultists killed five ...

Year 2000 Kaduna riots Christians burned Muslim corpses and defaced wrecked mosques in Onitsha One soldier and six civilians were ...

Abdullahi Adamu, ex-Nasarawa governor was arrested by anti-graft agency, EFCC Kidnappers abducted a medical doctor in Mkpat Enin, Akwa Ibom ...

Kidnappers abducted monarch, four in Andoni, Rivers Gunmen killed four at a market in Ibadan, Oyo Boko Haram killed six ...

Gunmen killed first-class graduate in Anambra Herdsmen killed 17 persons in Benue Bandits killed three as villagers lynch informant in ...

Odioma Massacre: Soldiers burned buildings, killed 17 villagers and allegedly raped women Bomb exploded outside church near Nigeria's capital, wounded ...

Gunmen attacked two Shell oil flowstations in Nigeria Niger arrested 20 Boko Haram militants in suspected plot Military retook Monguno ...

Retaliatory Benin Expedition of 1897 Bandits killed 30 in northwest Nigeria attack Islamist group, 'Ansaru' attacked a camp, killed a ...

PDP chose Obasanjo as presidential candidate Gunmen freed 119 inmates in Nigerian prison break Okonjo-Iweala appointed WTO DG — first ...

Omar al-Bashir was welcomed by Nigeria despite the ICC's arrest order Oshiomhole accused Okonjo-Iweala with stealing $1 billion illegally to ...

How General Murtala Mohammed was assassinated by a group of soldiers Boko Haram attacked Ngouboua, Chad, killed eight civilians, one ...

Gunmen killed five police officers at checkpoint in Enugu Electoral violence led to one death in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory ...

Olusegun Obasanjo introduced the N20 note as head of state February 2014 Konduga massacre 30 killed, 18 vehicles, houses burnt ...

According to a US historian by the name of Henry Glassie, history is not the past but rather a map ...

There are two versions of story about how Ìjẹ̀sà people come to be. One is traced to Odùduwà and the ...

Conflicts and tensions in a country may result in clashes and war. Nigeria experienced the effects of such tensions during ...

Though many characteristics of the Igbo culture are a bit unconventional, when it comes to socializing they tend to be ...

As far back as 1987 when some of you were still in the incubator, Oba Yesufu Oloyede Asanike, Olubadan of ...

Nigeria was a Federal State of three Regions: Northern, Western, and Eastern. Additionally, provinces, were abolished in 1976 and today country has a 36 state country

The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War and the Nigerian-Biafran War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), was a war fought between ...