Nigeria News News Nigeria » History: Nigeria History, From Nok to the 2027 Election
Nigeria history from Nok and Benin to the 1914 merger, independence in 1960, the Biafran war, military rule and the 16 January 2027 election.
News Nigeria » History: Obaro Ikime was one of Nigeria’s great scholars ‑ he showed why history matters in building African nations
The late Obaro Ikime. The Ikime Family. Iku o mo eni’san! “Death does not know the good ones” is a Yoruba phrase to describe the indiscriminate nature of death. If character and social values were ...
News Nigeria » History: Street talk: Exhibition explores the literary pulse of early post-colonial Nigeria
In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.
News Nigeria » History: These organizations are preserving Nigeria's history. Here's how.
Cultural and historical resources have become more accessible in Nigeria following the internet's introduction in the country in the 1990s. Yet, while journalists, researchers and artists can more ...
News Nigeria » History: Nigeria at 66 - six of the best, six of the worst
As the country turns 66, we present six of the best moments from Nigeria's sporting history, as well as another six of the darkest days endured by the nation.
News Nigeria » History: What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule
In this readable history of British colonialism in Nigeria, Siollun traces a broad arc from the first links between British explorers and various West African precolonial states, in the sixteenth ...