Nigerian History

A cultural festival held on the third day after the Eid-el Kabir celebration in western Nigeria. The famous festival started in 1892 when Oba Adesumbo Tunwase offered landed properties to the Muslims for a mosque. He also allowed the British missionaries to preach Christianity in Ijebu Land and the land…

The Eyo Festival, also known as the Adamu Orisha Play, is one of the most colourful festivals that expresses and exhibits Lagos’ rich culture and traditions. It is widely anticipated in all parts of Lagos and attended by Lagos indigenes and visitors from across Nigeria and internationally. The festival’s amazing…

Establishment Of NYSC In Nigeria The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is a program that was set up by the Nigerian government to involve every Nigerian graduates in the nation building and the development of the country. Although there is no military conscription in Nigeria, but since 1973, the graduates…

  The Third Mainland Bridge is the longest of three bridges that connects Lagos Island to the mainland; the other is the Eko and Carter bridges. It was the longest bridge in Africa until 1996 when the 6th October Bridge was completed in Cairo. The bridge actually starts from Oworonshoki,…

The Ife and Modakeke people are both regarded as Yoruba people in Osun State area of Nigeria. Both ethnic groups are regarded as bonafide descendants of Oduduwa as they have the same culture, political systems and share the same geographical boundaries. Modakeke is situated within the Ife Kingdom while Ile-Ife…

Margaret Ekpo was born on July 27, 1914, into the family of Inyang Eyo Aniemewue from the Royal stock of King Eyo Honesty II and Okoroafor Obiasulor native of Agulu-Uzo-Igbo near Awka in Anambra State. She reached standard six of the school leaving certificate in 1934, unfortunately, she could not…

Hajia Gambo Sawaba was born in Zaria, Kaduna state, in 1933 to parents Ghanian parents, Fatima and Isa Amarteifo. Her name from birth was Hajaratu Amarteifo but she was born after a set of twins and so was nicknamed Gambo, the nickname never left. Her father was a native of…

Following his kidnap, he was taken to Bonny Island, Rivers state, where he was renamed Jubo Jubogha by his initial master and finally sold to Chief Alali, the head of the Opobu Manila Group of Houses. It was at this time that the British who couldn’t pronounce his name properly…

Born in Abeokuta in the 1790s (or 1820s), Aniwura was a migrant from Egbaland in present-day Ogun State. Her father, Chief Ogunrin, was a warlord from Ikija while her mother was from Ife. Her entrepreneurial drive is reported to have been gotten from her mother, who was a petty trader, who took her…

Nigeria became an independent State on the 1st of January, 1914 after Lord Frederick Lugard, the Governor of both the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Colony and protectorate of Southern Nigeria, signed a document that unified the two, however, creating the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Hence, the yearly celebration…