Archives Tag: Throwback Thursday
ThrowBack Thursday- Lateef Jakande: A True Servant Leader
April 19, 2022
Lateef Kayode Jakande was a Nigerian journalist who grew to become the legendary governor of Lagos State. He was born on 23rd July 1929 in the Epetedo area of Lagos Island, Lagos State to parents who are both from Omu-Aran, Kwara State. Read more about Throwback Thursday Alhaji Lateef Jakande, also widely known in … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday- Lateef Jakande: A True Servant Leader
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ThrowBack Thursday: Gani Fawehinmi – A Defender Of Human Rights
April 19, 2022
Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi was born on 22nd April 1938 to Saheed and Munirat Fawehinmi of Ondo, in Ondo State. Gani had his early education at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Ondo from 1947 to 1953 and Victory College, Ikare for his secondary school education from 1954 to 1958. Read more about Throwback Thursday Gani’s passion for human … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: Gani Fawehinmi – A Defender Of Human Rights
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ThrowBack Thursday: When Dele Giwa’s Name Was Cast In Gold With A Bomb (1986)
April 19, 2022
In a time in our nation, Nigeria, where serious, truthful and unbiased reportage of controversial matters is lacking, the legacy of investigative journalism left behind by Dele Giwa is hardly equalled. Born Sumonu Oladele Giwa in Ife, Osun state, southwest Nigeria, on March 16, 1947, he grew up in Ife where he had his … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: When Dele Giwa’s Name Was Cast In Gold With A Bomb (1986)
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ThrowBack Thursday: The Four Teenagers Who Hijacked A Plane To Save Nigeria
April 19, 2022
A few heroic tales have been told of instances where ordinary Nigerians took fate into their hands and moved to alter the direction history follows. Examples such as Wole Soyinka holding a broadcasting house at gunpoint to switch tapes of a Western region Premier’s broadcast remains one of the top daring acts in Nigerian … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: The Four Teenagers Who Hijacked A Plane To Save Nigeria
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ThrowBack Thursday – Walter Carrington: The Naturalised Nigerian Who Stood For Its Sovereignty
April 19, 2022
To many Nigerians who have embarked on the pursuit of migrating from the shores of the country, Walter Carrington may mean a different thing to them. By moving for greener pasture in America, it may also reflect the irony behind the ideals which the former U.S ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, stood for when … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday – Walter Carrington: The Naturalised Nigerian Who Stood For Its Sovereignty
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ThrowBack Thursday: Ken Saro-Wiwa As A Martyr (1941-1995)
April 19, 2022
Kenule Beeson “Ken” Saro-Wiwa was born on October 10, 1941, in Bori, Ogoni land in Rivers state. He was a gifted Nigerian writer, environmental activist, television producer, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award for “exemplary courage in striving non-violently for civil, economic and environmental rights” and the Goldman Environmental Prize for his environmental … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: Ken Saro-Wiwa As A Martyr (1941-1995)
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ThrowBack Thursday: The Murtala Muhammed’s Coup of 1975
April 19, 2022
The Nigeria-Biafran War had just ended 5 years earlier before the 1975 coup. The coup was indirectly instigated by one of the firebrand officers – General Murtala Mohammed – who helped General Yakubu Gowon himself achieve a successful counter-coup back in July 1966. Years down the line, it appeared to the impatient military brass … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: The Murtala Muhammed’s Coup of 1975
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Throwback Thursday – Ambrose Alli: A Foremost Progressive Champion
April 19, 2022
Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, though not born with a physically imposing stature which differentiates many politicians, he continues to stand tall even among his progressive peers both in learning and in service to the people. Born, 22nd September 1929 in Ido Ani – a town in Ondo state – to an Ekpoma father and … Continue reading Throwback Thursday – Ambrose Alli: A Foremost Progressive Champion
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ThrowBack Thursday: The Spanish Influenza Which Ravaged Nigeria in 1918
April 19, 2022
Just like a repeat of history, the year 1918 was significant for two major events of which Nigeria was a partaker – the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Spanish Influenza pandemic. A few years before, Nigeria had just amalgamated its territories and provinces in 1914 under the supervision of … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: The Spanish Influenza Which Ravaged Nigeria in 1918
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ThrowBack Thursday – Abeokuta Women’s Revolt (1949)
April 19, 2022
The Abeokuta Women’s Revolt, also known as the Egba Women’s Tax Riot, was a resistance movement championed by the Abeokuta Women’s Union (AWU) and led by two middle-class women, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti and Grace Eniola Soyinka, in the late 1940s. The major issue which the movement revolted against centred on the imposition of unfair taxation … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday – Abeokuta Women’s Revolt (1949)
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ThrowBack Thursday – Nnamdi Azikiwe: The First Indigenous Governor-General of Nigeria
April 19, 2022
While Nnamdi Azikiwe was running nationalist newspaper in Ghana he became a mentor to Kwame Nkrumah who later rose to be the first president of Ghana. He founded and became the editor of a newspaper as soon as he came to Nigeria in 1937. Azikiwe resigned membership of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), the country’s … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday – Nnamdi Azikiwe: The First Indigenous Governor-General of Nigeria
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ThrowBack Thursday – Nnamdi Azikwe: The First Indigent Governor-General of Nigeria (1)
April 19, 2022
Nnamdi Azikiwe was born on to Igbo parents, Obed-Edom Chukwuemeka Azikiwe and Rachel Chinwe Ogbenyeanu (Aghadiuno) Azikiwe, on November 16, 1904, in Zungeru, present-day Niger State. As a consequence of his father’s duties as a clerk in the colonial administration of Nigeria, he travelled extensively across Nigeria. This fact itself would help to later mould … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday – Nnamdi Azikwe: The First Indigent Governor-General of Nigeria (1)
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ThrowBack Thursday – James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Pioneer Nigerian of Many Firsts (2)
April 19, 2022
While captaining merchant vessels owned by Saros and navigating the coast between Freetown and the Niger Delta, Davies Labulo used the opportunity to trade in Palm Oil and cotton – a relatively lesser known trade commodity for African merchants. Within a few months, he had purchased two condemned slave ships at auction and began shipping … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday – James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Pioneer Nigerian of Many Firsts (2)
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ThrowBack Thursday – James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Pioneer Nigerian of Many Firsts (1)
April 19, 2022
James Pinson Labulo Davies was born on August 14, 1828 to James and Charlotte Davies in the village of Bathurst, Sierra Leone. Davies’ parents, James and Charlotte, had their origins in Abeokuta and Ogbomoso respectively. Bathurst, which was also a British colony, became home for these two who were rescued slaves after the Trans-Atlantic slave … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday – James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Pioneer Nigerian of Many Firsts (1)
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ThrowBack Thursday–Henry Carr: A Foremost Scholar & Educationist Who Dined With The Colonial Masters
April 19, 2022
Henry Rawlingson Carr was born on August 15, 1863 to Amuwo Carr and Rebecca Carr who were liberated Saro (Sierra Leonean) emigrants of Yoruba extraction. It was in the days after the bombardment of Lagos in 1851 by the British military forces but he grew up all the same in the Lagos of British Nigeria. … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday–Henry Carr: A Foremost Scholar & Educationist Who Dined With The Colonial Masters
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