Death, as a definitive and inescapable human experience, is humbling. It is humbling, first for the dead because it signals the ultimate equality of all humans. But death is also humbling for the ...

Every morning, a procession of villagers make their way from Dikwa, a town in northeastern Nigeria to farmlands, often ...

Since the death of President Muhammadu Buhari on July 13, 2025, opinions have been divided as to his place in history.At a point, the division began to assume ethno-religious colouration until videos ...

Abun duniya abun banza ne.” (‘Worldly things are worthless things.’) This is how, in 2023, Nigeria’s late former President ...

But you can defeat him. The error associated with this wrong choice is a common feature of Nigerian English usage.Our next task is to differentiate the two words (win and defeat) in practical usage.

I met him several times after he became Nigeria’s president in 2015, but the meetings did not change my impression of him as an enigma. Yet, as history peels back layer after layer of Muhammadu ...

Across six decades, 16 men have been at the helm of Africa’s most populous country, some by ballot, others by boots. What ...

Former President Akufo-Addo mourns Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari, praising his patriotism, unity efforts, and legacy of African ...

Nigeria's civil war origins debated as Gowon and Ohanaeze Ndigbo clash over the Aburi Accord's role. Accusations of broken promises and historical revisionism fly.

It could be recalled that the Biafra War, also known as the Nigerian Civil War, lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 13, 1970.

“His claim that the Nigerian Civil War was fought for unity, not hatred, is not only a grotesque distortion of history but a deliberate insult to the millions of Biafrans slaughtered under his ...

Obasanjo emphasised the need for Nigeria to take history, particularly military history, more seriously as a tool for conflict resolution and national development.