Senator (Chief) Victor Esemingsongo Mukete, the Cameroonian elder statesman and paramount chief of the Bafaw tribe, is the only surviving member of Nigeria’s first Executive Cabinet...

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon yesterday shunned the launch of a book, titled:  RAYUWA in memory of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who died in the 1966 coup.

This article aims to conclude that “federal character” is both desirable and inevitable in the context of our nation.

“Chief Justice, I am glad you gave that judgment, because I want you to feel free, if I commit a crime or do wrong in your opinion, to say so…if I am brought before you, send me to your jail...

Celebrating an Armed Forces Remembrance Day on a date the Nigerian civil war ended does little to heal the wounds of that avoidable, better-forgotten war.

I was accused of being a witch by J.K. Randle, he said I had cried at night and the baby died in the morning. I had spoken to so many people about the hall and swimming pool, and now it had been bulldozed in the morning!

Once upon a time, before the era of military coup and in pre-oil Nigeria, there were four financially independent and uninhibited regions...

1960 October - Independence, with Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa leading a coalition government.

A young man, who just finished his NYSC, confessed he did not know any Nigerian Head of State had been assassinated in the past. It was the 50th anniversary of that assassination that brought the information to his attention.

Although President Muhammadu Buhari appropriately sounded a note of caution that the journey is not guaranteed to be an easy one, the good news is that the good times should start rolling very soon.

Ali was a hero of universal significance, idolized worldwide, not only for his prowess in the ring, but also for his poetry and his politics.