An Enugu State High Court has delivered a landmark judgment ordering the United Kingdom government to pay £420 million in compensation to the descendants of the coal miners slain during the 1949 Iva Valley massacre. The ruling, delivered on February 6, 2026, concludes a decades-long legal battle for restitution following the extrajudicial killing of 21 […]
The main purpose of this write up isn’t to undermine any tribe but to inform posterity the reality of what exactly happened. It’s so unfortunate that history is carefully omitted from the curriculum of our academic system. And this has led to the breeding of blind graduates who don’t even understand Nigeria’s past, today, or […]
Following the expiration of the contract terms for three of its channels- History, Crime + Investigation and Lifetime-that are produced by the American broadcasting company, A and E Television Networks, DStv, a cable television services provider owned by MultiChoice is set to cut the said channels from its networks from November 1, 2019. Explaining the […]
Last Saturday, the Eastern Bar Forum (the EBF) held its quarterly meeting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Amongst other things, it resolved to reject the proposed amendment of the Constitution for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and subsequently issued directives to all branches of the NBA in the East to withdraw any memoranda they must have […]
Perhaps the biggest news this week so far, has been the attempt by the Presidency to debunk the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari has been kinder to Northerners and Muslims in the recruitment of persons into his administration. The published list, itself a response to an earlier indictment by the BusinessDay Newspaper, has been dismissed […]
Nigerian-born Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua delivered one of the great nights in British boxing history by stopping Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round to be crowned IBF, WBA and IBO world heavyweight champion. He staged the feat in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, reported Reuters. The unbeaten home favourite earned […]
Reno Omokiri, has, apparently become desperately enamoured in making his former boss, Dr Goodluck Jonathan look good in the eye of the Nigerian public. Well, perhaps, we should submit from observed inclination of his writings which tend more to hagiography, that he’s still active in the employ of Jonathan. No one begrudges him his employment […]
On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City’s Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building’s lights. Hoover’s gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New York. The idea for the Empire […]
On this day in 1926, Ford Motor Company became one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its automotive factories. The policy would be extended to Ford’s office workers the following August. Henry Ford‘s Detroit-based automobile company had broken ground in its labour policies before. In early […]
International Workers’ Day is a celebration of labour and the working classes that is promoted by international labour movement and that occurs on May 1 every year. That day, May 1, is also the traditional European Spring holiday of May Day. Therefore, May 1 is a national public holiday in more than 80 countries, but […]
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 heating […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was ambushed and shot to death in Morelos by government forces. Born a peasant in 1879, Zapata was forced into the Mexican army in 1908 following his attempt to recover village lands taken over by a rancher. After the revolution began in […]
O. Henry’s second short story collection, The Four Million, was published. The collection includes one of his most beloved stories, The Gift of the Magi, about a poor but devoted couple who each sacrifice their most valuable possession to buy a gift for the other. O. Henry was the pen name adopted by William Sydney […]