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Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa  (He is also referred to as Alhaji, having performed the Muslim pilgrimage at  Mecca .) (December 1912 - January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician, and the first prime minister of an independent  Nigeria . Originally a trained teacher, he became a vocal leader for Northern interest as one of the few educated Nigerians of his time. He was also an international statesman, widely respected across the African continent as one of the leaders who encouraged the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) (later the African Union. He also encouraged cooperation between the former  British  and former  French  colonies. During his period in office, Balewa was faced with competing regional interests, rivalry between different political parties each of which were organized on regional as well as tribal lines representing the  Hausa  and  Fulani  north, the  Yoruba  south-west, and the  Igbo...

#Fact about the lagos 3rd mainland bridge . The  Third-Mainland Bridge  is one of the three bridges linking  Lagos Island  to the  mainland . It was named Third-Mainland Bridge because it is the third of the three bridges that connects Lagos Island with the Mainland – the other two being the Eko and Carter Bridges. The Third-Mainland Bridge is the longest of the three bridges . The Third-Mainland bridge starts from  Oworonshoki  which is linked to the  Apapa-Oshodi expressway  and Lagos-Ibadan expressway, and ends at the Adeniji Adele Interchange on Lagos Island. The completion of the abandoned Third-Mainland Bridge was a collaborative effort of the Gen. Babangida-led Federal government and the Raji-Rasaki-led Lagos state government. Renowned engineering firm, Julius Berger, constructed the Third-Mainland Bridge. The then Nigerian Head-of-State, General Ibrahim Babangida, commissioned the Bridge on his birt...

The  Anglo-Zulu War  which is also known as the Zulu War was a historic six-month war that was fought in 1879 in Southern Africa between Great Britain and the South African kingdom   region  (thereby destroying autonomous African states), and Boer land claims (supported by the British) on territory held by the Zulu kingdom. ring the second half of the 19th century, the British were interested in Zululand for several reasons which include their desire for the Zulu population to provide labour in the diamond fields of Southern Africa, their plan to create a South Africa federation in the Cetshwayo, who became king of the Zulus in 1872, was unwilling to submit to British hegemony and assembled a well-dedicated army of 40,000 to 60,000 men. In December 1878, Sir Bartle Frere, British high commissioner for South Africa, issued an ultimatum to Cetshwayo that was designed to be impossible to satisfy: the Zulu were, among other things, to dismantle their “military syst...

Olumo Rock Olumo Rock Olumo Rock  is an ancient rock located in Abeokuta, Nigeria. It was first discovered by a hunter named Adagba and he found the rock to be a natural place of refuge from wars and threat of wars. The rock provided sanctuary to the Egba people giving them room to monitor the enemy’s advance which led to their eventual triumph in the war. A trip to Olumo rock usually commences with a climb up the man-made stairs carved into the rock. The journey continues with climbs on irregularly sized rocks through a narrow corridor that leads to the top of the rock. There are carvings in the rock, cowrie-studded statues and inside.                                      ...

Ibadan,   the present capital of Oyo State, is the third most populous state in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano with 3.5 million dwellers. In the 1960s, Ibadan was known to be the largest city in Africa after Cairo (Egypt) and Johannesburg in South Africa. The  Yoruba people  are the main inhabitant of this popular city, Ibadan, which was formally called  Eba Odan (the city at the edge of a Savannah) at the point of its creation. Ibadan, located in the south-western part of Nigeria served as the home for trade, commerce and fashion in the 60s and 70s making Lagos a perfect rival. Ibadan was also the centre for administration of the Western region during the colonial era. The origin of this great city, Ibadan, was traced to the reign of the great old Oyo empire (Oyo-Ile). It was said that the Alaafin (king) of the Oyo empire ordered Lagelu who was then the commander of armed forces (Are-Ona-Kakanfo) in Oyo, and some of his best men in Oyo, Ilesa and Ogbomosho to b...

                    DID YOU KNOW The Atlantic ocean  is called “black Atlantic” for the role it served in the history of dark-skinned 
people, who often traveled from Africa to America by sea. #historyisourpride

On January 1, 1914, Lord Frederick Lugard, the governor of both the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, signed a document consolidating the two, thereby creating the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Forty-six years later in 1960, Nigeria became an independent state. Anniversaries are times for reflection, and given that today, just over 104 years after amalgamation, the country is still grappling with its national identity and a reanimated separatist movement, it is worth reflecting on how exactly Nigeria became Nigeria.  Before Europeans arrived in the territory that is now Nigeria, a number of different civilizations existed whose presence is still felt today. For example, in the north, Islam was predominant. In the nineteenth century, there were two Islamic empires, the Sokoto Caliphate and the Bornu Empire. To the southwest lay numerous Yoruba city-states that generally had in common animist religion and were only someti...

FACT ABOUT REPUBLIC OF BENIN 1The office of prime minister, vacant from May 1998, was filled in May 2011, was vacant from August 2013 until being filled in June 2015, and then vacant again from April 2016; the post of prime minister is not required per the constitution. 2Porto-Novo, the official capital established under the constitution, is the seat of the legislature, but the president and most government ministers reside in Cotonou.     #Historyisourpride

   The world’s first motorcycle is called the “Butler Petrol Cycle”, it was invented built by Edward Butler in England in 1884. It was powered by a 5/ 8 hp, 600cc twin-cylinder 4-stroke engine, with rotary valves, a float-fed carburettor and Ackermann steering. #Historyisourpride

Gen. Sani Abacha became Nigerias Head of States from November 17, 1993, to June 8, 1998, as a result of the November 1993 coup. A brief history of Gen. Sani Abacha Born in Kano state September 20, 1943, Gen. Abacha was raised in that same state which he made his home. But originally, he was from Borno state-- a Kanuri to be precise. Abacha was commissioned in 1963 after attending Mons Officer Cadet in Aldershot England. He attended the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna before then. Particularly, Gen. Abacha's military career is distinguished by a string of successful coups. And being part of every successful coup, record has it that he is the most successful coup plotter in the history of Nigeria’s military. At the age of 23, Abacha then a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion in Kaduna, took part in the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup from the conceptual stage. 17 years later, in the orchestration of the 1983 coup d’etat that brought Gen. Muhammadu Bu...