ANNIVERSARY
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1.5KBlessed Mary Appears in Portugal, Pope Shot
Fatima was not known outside Portugal and Spain until the epochal event. Around midday, three young Portuguese children looking after their parents’...
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1.6KAwolowo, Azikiwe, Macaulay Die
It was a strange coincidence. Three of Nigeria’s foremost nationalists died on May 9, May 10 and May 11 – Obafemi Awolowo...
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742Death of Nigerian President
SEVEN YEARS AGO — His battle against a terminal illness ended in Aso Rock Presidential Villa. Friends and enemies, politicians and non-politicians...
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736Achebe: There Was a Countryman
In Igbo-land of old, the death of a great man – say, a titled man – was not announced until some necessary...
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1.4KThe Web Inventor’s Worries
On the 28th anniversary of the world wide web (March 12), web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee delivers a message to the world...
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1.6KMatthew Hassan Kukah: 40 Years a Priest
By FRANCIS DAMINA – Most Rev. Dr Matthew Hassan Kukah was ordained as a Catholic priest on December 19, 1976, by the...
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1.1KOjukwu Was a Warrior for Justice
5 YEARS AGO — Emeka Ojukwu died on Nov. 26, 2011, at age 78. On the Sunday (Feb. 26) preceding his burial...
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2.1KIBB Launches SAP
30 YEARS AGO – September 29 was the D-Day: the military government led by Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida launched the Structural Adjustment...
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2.2KCOUP! Nigeria’s Head of State Assassinated
50 YEARS AGO –The head of state and commander-in-chief of the Nigerian armed forces, Major-General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, has been assassinated...
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1.3KNigeria Declares War on Biafra
50 YEARS AGO —Nigeria’s head of state Col. Yakubu Gowon has declared total war on Biafra. He has promised that the war...