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Archival photo: Benjamin Adekunle executes own soldier

Lt. Macaulay Lamurde was tried and executed on 13 September 1968 by Colonel Benjamin Adekunle…

How Awujale survived dethronement, his problems with Gov Onabanjo

Oba Sikiru Adetona will mark his 60th anniversary on the throne in April this year.…

1960 New York Times: Sardauna and Mohammadu Sanusi1 in US shopping spree

          Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido…

Awo’s birthday: His rough start, failed loan request from Odutola

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the late Premier of Old Western Region, would have been marking his…

Probe of the Sanusis: Like grandfather, like current Emir of Kano

    Just as his grandfather, Muhammed Sanusi 1, was dethroned as a result of…

34 Years Ago: The Vatsa Conspiracy

By Nowa Omoigui In Nigeria, beginning in the wee hours of December 17th, 1985 and…

34th memorial: How IBB executed Vatsa, wife narrates last moments

          Today exactly marks 34 years when Major General Mamman Jiya…

Domkat Bali at 80: “IBB maliciously killed Vatsa”

  The Bali interview cover design General Domkat Bali who turns 80 today (he was…

Throwback: Our war against Boko Haram- Buratai

Right now, the insecurity situation is so intense that not a few are calling for…

Throwback: Day Biafrans shot Obasanjo in the buttocks – Gen Alabi Isama

On 15 January 2020, Nigerians marked 50 years that the civil war ended. One of…