ANNIVERSARY
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737Commonwealth Day
Celebrations and events will be held across the world on Monday (March 11) to mark Commonwealth Day. The day will feature everything...
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1.5KThe Lost Legend of Lejja
‘When cometh such another?’ All the struggles of this great man ended in the early hours of February 12, 2009. Friends and...
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749Remembering a Quintessential Teacher
By ANIEBO NWAMU — As a young man in the 1980s, I regarded Tai Solarin as my role model because of his...
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1.1KSaintly Matthew
AUGUST 30, 2017 – It’s 4pm, Wednesday. He had taken his lunch and was about to complete a bout of exercise, as...
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744A Quarter-century Late, Apology for June 12 Comes
At the Special National Honours Investiture of Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola with the award of GCFR, and Alhaji Baba Gana Kingibe...
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899Death of Nigeria’s Head of State
20 YEARS AGO – By 10am the news had spread far and wide via landline telephones, for there was no GSM in...
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673Karl Marx at 200
The German economist, Karl Marx, who TIME magazine named as its “Person of the Millennium” at the beginning of this century was...
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A Master Strategist Was Here
Until this day (Feb. 12) of 2009, there existed a man I believed would be the equivalent of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt...
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1.2KBiafra Is Born
50 YEARS AGO – This is the speech in which Lt. Col. (later General) Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared the birth of Biafra on...
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1.3KTotal Eclipse: Nightfall at Noon!
70 YEARS AGO – People living in Nigeria and most other parts of the world witnessed a total solar eclipse from 12:30...