ANNIVERSARY
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2.3KIBB 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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2.4KCOUP! 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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1.5KNigeria 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...
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1.1KShakespeare Lived Here
400 YEARS AGO — The father of English literature, William Shakespeare, died on April 23, 1616, at exactly age 52. He was...
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1.4KThere Was an Eagle on Iroko
Chinua Achebe, the one who achieved fame n’uwanile “through solid personal achievements”, is a hero to many who are perturbed by the...
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1.1KThe Nzeogwu Coup
50 YEARS AGO — It is the 50th anniversary of the first military coup that put Nigeria on irreversibe decline. Led by...
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1.6KOne Solitary Life
2, 015 YEARS AGO — He was born in an obscure village, the son of a peasant woman. He grew up in...
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1.0KA Shepherd Anointed
39 YEARS AGO – Barely a week to Christmas (Dec. 19) of 1976, Matthew Hassan Kukah received the anointing as a catholic...
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1.1KAfrica’s Greatest Goes Home
2 YEARS AGO – Nelson Mandela dies, aged 95… Who was the greatest statesman of the 20th century? Discard the mass murderers...
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1.5KState Murder: Saro-Wiwa, 8 Kinsmen Hanged in PH
20 YEARS AGO: On November 10, 1995, environmental rights activist and author Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists were executed in...