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THE FACTORY RESET: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE THE FACTORY RESET: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE Knowing the great achievements of our ancestors is not living in the past. It is not idolatry. It is a FACTORY RESET. When you discover what those before you built, created, understood and achieved, something changes within you. You begin toContinue reading “THE FACTORY RESET: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE”

TODAY IN HISTORY:ON THIS DAY SEMPTEMBER 8TH 1971,THE DAY LAGOS GATHERED TO WATCH DR. ISHOLA OYENUSI D1€ TODAY IN HISTORY:ON THIS DAY SEMPTEMBER 8TH 1971,THE DAY LAGOS GATHERED TO WATCH DR. ISHOLA OYENUSI D1€ on this day, September 8, 1971, one of the most notor1ous @rmed robb€rs in Nigeria’s history, Ishola Oyenusi, popularly known asContinue reading “TODAY IN HISTORY:ON THIS DAY SEMPTEMBER 8TH 1971,THE DAY LAGOS GATHERED TO WATCH DR. ISHOLA OYENUSI D1€”

THE NIGHT PATRICE LUMUMBA DISAPPEARED — AND THE HORRIFYING SECRET THAT FOLLOWED THE NIGHT PATRICE LUMUMBA DISAPPEARED — AND THE HORRIFYING SECRET THAT FOLLOWED Imagine being one of Africa’s most powerful young leaders… Then, within months, becoming a prisoner whose final fate was hidden from the world. This was the story of Patrice Lumumba. InContinue reading “THE NIGHT PATRICE LUMUMBA DISAPPEARED — AND THE HORRIFYING SECRET THAT FOLLOWED”

BAKASSI: SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY, AND MY ENCOUNTER WITH MILITARY JUSTICE BAKASSI: SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY, AND MY ENCOUNTER WITH MILITARY JUSTICE One Sunday in 1995 or thereabout. General Sani Abacha was the Military Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His regime lasted from 17 November 1993 to 8 JuneContinue reading “BAKASSI: SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY, AND MY ENCOUNTER WITH MILITARY JUSTICE”

“HE CALLED ZIK OF AFRICA… THE RANTING OF AN ANT.” “HE CALLED ZIK OF AFRICA… THE RANTING OF AN ANT.” Imagine a young Nigerian politician publicly dismissing the words of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, one of the most revered figures in Nigeria’s history. That young politician was Dr. Chuba Okadigbo. But what happened between these twoContinue reading ““HE CALLED ZIK OF AFRICA… THE RANTING OF AN ANT.””

“Ethiopia’s foreign policy is based on the principles of the United Nations Charter as well as on the Bandung and Accra Declarations. “Ethiopia’s foreign policy is based on the principles of the United Nations Charter as well as on the Bandung and Accra Declarations. These principles which We have long cherished and for which WeContinue reading ““Ethiopia’s foreign policy is based on the principles of the United Nations Charter as well as on the Bandung and Accra Declarations.”

MANDELA CAPTURED – AUGUST 5, 1962, R103 HOWICK | THE SAD DAY ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM MANDELA CAPTURED – AUGUST 5, 1962, R103 HOWICK | THE SAD DAY ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM August 5, 1962. R103, just outside Howick. He was 44 years old. For 17 months he had not slept in hisContinue reading “MANDELA CAPTURED – AUGUST 5, 1962, R103 HOWICK | THE SAD DAY ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM”

As Head of State in the 1970s, General Olusegun Obasanjo effectively banned the use of Mercedes-Benz as official government cars for some reasons: As Head of State in the 1970s, General Olusegun Obasanjo effectively banned the use of Mercedes-Benz as official government cars for some reasons: However, Mercedes-Benz gradually returned as Nigeria’s dominant official carContinue reading “As Head of State in the 1970s, General Olusegun Obasanjo effectively banned the use of Mercedes-Benz as official government cars for some reasons:”