ANNIVERSARY
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1.0KDoctrine of Necessity
5 YEARS AGO– On this day in 2010, the Nigerian Senate relied on the “Doctrine of Necessity” to make then vice-president Goodluck...
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1.4KBirth of a New Federal Capital
39 YEARS AGO – One of the great speeches he made during his 200-day rule of Nigeria was the one of February...
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2.6KReign of the ‘Cabal’ in Nigeria
5 YEARS AGO – At least two coups were averted in Nigeria on February 9, 2010. The first, which was already being...
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1.2KAmerican President Assassinated
51 YEARS AGO – The story of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, is still being told around...
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2.1KThe Rumble in the Jungle
40 YEARS AGO — The Rumble in the Jungle was an historic boxing event in 1974 inKinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). Held at the 20th of May...
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The Rumble in the Jungle
40 YEARS AGO — The Rumble in the Jungle was an historic boxing event in 1974 inKinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of...
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943A Music Maestro Is Born
76 YEARS AGO – In Abeokuta in then Western Region of Nigeria, a woman activist was delivered of a baby boy. The...
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1.2KBalewa Speaks on Birth of a Free Nation
54 YEARS AGO – A small crowd gathered at Race Course, in central Lagos, waiting for the minute and hour hands of...
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996IBB Falls from Power
21 YEARS AGO: Following the widespread discontent generated by the annulment of the presidential election held in Nigeria on June 12, 1993,...