Ata Ameh oboni refused to bow to Queen Elizabeth ii when she visited Lokoja??
Do you know that Ata Ameh oboni refused to bow to Queen Elizabeth ii when she visited Lokoja?? Ata Ameh oboni said ” I’m a father, it is a taboo for a father to bow for his children, and abomination…
THE FIRST RICHEST NIGERIAN Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu
Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu, OBE (1909]– September 1966) was a Nigerian business tycoon from the Ojukwu family of Nwakanwa quarters Obiuno Umudim Nnewi. Ojukwu, was the founder of Ojukwu Transport, Ojukwu Stores and Ojukwu Textiles. At his peak, he…
HOW ARABS CAME TO BE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF AFRICA
Arab slavery had already begun in Africa more than 700 years before European transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade began when the Arabs invaded North Africa for the first time in the 7th century AD. The first Arab entry into…
The Face on 20 Naira Note Ladi Kwali
Ladi Kwali (1925 – 1984), the woman on the Nigeria twenty naira note. She was born in the village of Kwali, Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was a common occupation among women. She was so skilled that her…
Chinua Achebe of Nigeria was one of the most famous 20th Century African writers.
CHINUA ACHEBE (1930-2013) He published his first novel Things Fall Apart in 1958 and has since published four more novels and a series of short stories, essays, and other literature. Much of Achebe’s work focuses on the themes of colonialism,…
The Dahomey (Benin Republic 🇧🇯) Amazon Warriors circa 1890’s.
Portrait of the most famous African warrior women, The Dahomey (Benin Republic 🇧🇯) Amazon Warriors circa 1890’s. They remain the only documented frontline female troops in modern warfare history. A sub-saharan band of female terminators who left their European colonists…
The Zulu state was formed by Shaka, who ruled as the king from 1816 to 1828.
Shaka was the stuff of legends, and subsequent tales of his life include a prophecy that foretold of a child that would make the Zulu the most feared of nations. Shaka’s success was due to the modifications he made to…
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo (Angola) was a powerful monarch who successfully kept the Portuguese out of her land for 35 years.
In order to fight off Portugal, (who wanted to conquer the area to further the slave trade) Nzinga conquered neighboring kingdoms to expand her territory. Nzinga led her warriors in battle until her sixties and defied numerous assassination attempts to…
The word “NIGERIA” was first mentioned In Lokoja, Kogi State.
Many Kogi State indigenes and non-indigenes are not aware that the name of our dear country Nigeria was first pronounced in Lokoja, by Miss Flora Shaw, a beautiful British journalist who later became the wife of Lord Lugard. Sir Fredrick…
Prof Adebayo Adedeji founder and pioneer Chairman of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Prof Adebayo Adedeji, an Ijebu Ode-born economist and diplomat, was born on December 21, 1930. In the early 1970s, as Nigeria’s Federal Commissioner for Economic Development and Reconstruction, he took a leading part in the negotiations that brought the establishment…