On this day in 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a
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On April 28, 1916, Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the company that bears his name and was known for stylish, high-performance cars, was born in Italy. After World War II, Lamborghini founded a business making tractors from reconfigured surplus military machines, near Bologna, Italy. He later expanded into other ventures, including manufacturing air-conditioning and
Chief Olisa Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate and former President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in this interview with PETER FOWOYO, took a swipe at the members of the National Assembly for the outrageous salaries being paid to the lawmakers by the Revenue Fiscal and Mobilization Committee and quickly call on the President-elect to revert same without […]
Some say life starts at 50, but for 50 year old painter, Tokunbo Ojo, who chose to go into robbery as a means of livelihood, life at 50 may well being in prison. Daily Times gathered that Tokunbo, who specialises in robbery at parties and big ceremonies, uses a master key to open and loot […]
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kenneth Nwosu, has called on all Lagosians to desist from linking Fumilayo Adeyemi Kazeem (aka Mary Akinloye), the nanny who was responsible for the kidnap of the Orekoya kids as a member of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM). You may recall that the said […]
If market competition and inflation had not forced distillers to package dry gin in sachets of N50, perhaps Tunde Odutola would be alive today. Daily Times gathered that one cheap drink too many at Onipanu bus stop along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, led to an argument between cab driver, Tunde Odutola and one Esther, daughter of […]
George “Baby Face” Nelson killed Special Agent W. Carter Baum during an FBI raid in northern Wisconsin. Nelson was holed up with notorious bank robber John Dillinger’s gang at the Little Bohemia resort but didn’t follow the planned escape route. As he was stealing a car to escape, he blasted several agents with two handguns. […]
Frederick Henry Royce, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the luxury Britåish automaker Rolls- Royce, died on this day in 1933 at the age of 70 in England. Royce was born on March 27, 1863, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. He grew up in a family of modest means and worked a variety of jobs, eventually […]
On April 22, 1915, German forces shocked Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line. Toxic smoke has been used occasionally in warfare […]
Dafe Akpedeye, a Senior Advocate and former Delta state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in this interview told PETER FOWOYO, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)introduced the concept of plea bargaining into Nigeria. Besides, the fiery lawyer spoke on the doctrine of necessity, constitutional amendment and sundry other issues.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has condemned in strong terms the spate of kidnapping in the country even as it vowed to intensify efforts in enforcing the rights of victims and ensure the culprits are punished in accordance with the law. The Commission also expressed worries over the recent occurrence in Lagos State where […]
Gunmen suspected to be cultists invaded two homes in Ikorodu and blotted out two lives. ANYIM JOY NDUDI reports the sorry tale of a man killed in the presence of his family and another dragged from his wife in bed and hacked to death. It was indeed a bloody Tuesday to remember for residents of […]
ANYIM JOY NDUDI reports the strange story of a man who murdered the mother of his son in Ajegunle, presented himself to the police and said ‘it was the work of the devil.’ A lawful suspect may be the right word to describe Michael David, a 31 year old indigene of Delta state who murdered […]
Multimillionaire and financier Bernard Baruch, in a speech given during the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina House of Representatives, coined the term “Cold War” to describe relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. The phrase stuck, and for over 40 years it was a mainstay in the language of American […]
On this day in 1946, Arthur Chevrolet, an auto racer and the brother of Chevrolet auto namesake Louis Chevrolet, committed suicide in Slidell, Louisiana. Louis Chevrolet was born in Switzerland in 1878, while Arthur’s birth year has been listed as 1884 and 1886. By the early 1900s, Louis and Arthur, along with their younger brother […]
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumed LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual […]
On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returned to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870, Lenin was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander II. […]
The Soviet government officially accepted blame for the Katyn Massacre of World War II, when nearly 5,000 Polish military officers were murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest. The admission was part of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s promise to be more forthcoming and candid concerning Soviet history. In 1939, Poland had been […]
After a 33-hour bombardment by Confederate cannons, Union forces surrendered Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. The first engagement of the war ended in Rebel victory. The surrender concluded a standoff that began with South Carolina’s secession from the Union on December 20, 1860. When President Abraham Lincoln sent word to Charleston in early […]
On this day in 1997, 21-year-old Tiger Woods won the prestigious Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes in Augusta, Georgia. It was Woods’ first victory in one of golf’s four major championships–the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship, and the Masters–and the greatest performance by a professional golfer in more than a […]
