Nigeria's history is rich and complex, encompassing various chapters that have shaped the nation into what it is today. Among these chapters is the painful era of slavery, a period that left indelible ...

History is set to return as a subject in Nigeria’s primary and secondary schools. Barring any unforeseen hitches, the reintroduction which was mooted in 2016, will be actualised sometime in 2025.

In this readable history of British colonialism in Nigeria, Siollun traces a broad arc from the first links between British explorers and various West African precolonial states, in the sixteenth ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has praised President Bola Tinubu’s administration, saying Nigeria is witnessing an unprecedented economic transformation under his leadership. The monarch said ...

Sixty years later, the hope and promise of Nigeria remains just that: a hope and promise of an E go beta people, led by a cynical political leadership shepherding a population, many of whom, if asked, ...

In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.

Cultural and historical resources have become more accessible in Nigeria following the internet's introduction in the country in the 1990s. Yet, while journalists, researchers and artists can more ...

Scholar and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu talks about the meaning Nigeria's 1960s art upsurge. Uche Okeke, Fantasy and Masks (ca.1960). © The Prof Uche Okeke Legacy ...