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ThrowBack Thursday: Ladi Kwali – The Potter Who Graced A Naira Note

A quick glance at the back of the mint-green note of the N20 Nigerian currency depicts a woman in traditional attire tending to her pottery. Her name is Hadiza Ladi Kwali – the only Nigerian woman who appears on any

ThrowBack Thursday: Ajayi Crowther – The Boy Slave Who Returned to Make a Difference in Nigeria’s History

Samuel Ajayi Crowther was born in about 1809 to a family of kingly heritage in South-Western Nigeria. Due to the incessant wars of conquests spanning across northern and southern Nigeria in the early 19th century, Fulani slave raiders captured Crowther

ThrowBack Thursday: Alimotu Pelewura -The Fish Seller and Market Leader Who Stood for the Women

Alimotu Pelewura born of the Awori extraction in Eko, Lagos State, in 1865. While helping and learning in the trade of fish from her mother, Alimotu decided to take after the profession and she became very successful too. She rose

Throwback Thursday: Chinua Achebe Writes And Almost Loses His First Draft Of Things Fall Apart

Before he published his first book, Chinua Achebe had already gathered some experience as a writer. He had written many short stories and some of his short stories were published while he was a student of the University of Ibadan.

ThrowBack Thursday: Herbert Macaulay – The Founder of Nigerian Nationalism

Herbert Olayinka Samuel Heelas Badmus Macaulay was one of the first leaders of the Nigerian opposition to British colonial rule. He was also a civil engineer, surveyor, architect, journalist, and accomplished musician considered by many Nigerians as the founder of

Throwback Thursday: Samuel Okwaraji – A Patriot Taken in the Line of National Duty

On Sunday, 13 October 2019, Nigeria played Brazil in a friendly match in preparation for the 2022 World Cup qualifying rounds in football. Just a little over 30 years ago, a Nigerian named Samuel Okwaraji, slumped while playing Nigeria in

ThrowBack Thursday: Jaja of Opobo – The King Who Resisted Colonial Rule

On Tuesday, October 1, Nigeria celebrated its 59th anniversary of being free of British rule. But many of us may not have realized how the actions and moves made by some personalities before the name “Nigeria” was born in 1914

Throwback Thursday: The Bombardment and Plunder of Benin (1897)

About three years before Britain consolidated the provinces and protectorates of Nigeria and as the realities of the partitioning of Africa began to dawn on them, it went on a bombardment mission of the old Benin Kingdom in 1897. British

Throwback Thursday: Chief Emeka Morocco, King of Ekpili Music

Highlife is one of the most popular genres of music in Nigeria. Early highlife performers in the commercial western states of Nigeria enjoyed the benefits of living in urban, central hubs of art and entertainment. The frenzy of excited fans

ThrowBack Thursday: How the 2 Million Man March Kickstarted the 4th Republic (1998)

Just before Gen. Sani Abacha’s death on 8 June 1998, a sacrilegious political campaign to democratize the military junta began. This movement had its rally in many cities on the 3rd and 4th of March 1998. To many, the movement,

ThrowBack Thursday: When Nigeria Ruled Olympics Football (1996)

In the midst of the depressing situation and the political crisis which rocked the country in the 90s, Nigerians still found a way to be patriotic enough to root for the Super Eagles team when they played the final match

ThrowBack Thursday: When Zaki Biam Was Sacked (2001)

All around the world, unfortunate things happen day in day out. But the type witnessed in the Zaki Biam massacre of 2001 is the type rarely perpetrated by a nation’s military forces against the citizens it is meant to protect.

ThrowBack Thursday: NYSC – A Call to Service (1973)

Coming on the heels of the end of the Nigerian Civil War, General Yakubu Gowon, who was Head of State as at 1973, championed a scheme which could better aid national cohesion after the largely divisive and bitter civil war

ThrowBack Thursday: Echoes from FESTAC ‘77

Symbolically, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) began on the 15th January 1977 and ran until the 12th February 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria. The event, which had its first edition in Dakar, Senegal way

Beauty and the Beast: The Kaduna Riots of 2002

The lore of the Beauty and the Beast was no longer fairy tale on that fateful day, November 21, 2002, when an allusion Isioma Daniel had made that Prophet Muhammed would have married one of the World contestants competing at

ThrowBack Thursday: The Ikeja Explosion of 2002

On Sunday, January 27th 2002, panic, chaos and pandemonium gripped residents of Ikeja and environs due to scary sounds which seemed like that of war. A market very close to the Ikeja Army Cantonment had caught fire and the fire

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