FACT-CHECK: Lagos History Lecture
There are a lot of controversy regards the history of LAGOS, Southwest, Nigeria. EGALITARIAN VOICE learnt that the outcome of 2023 general elections in Lagos State, Nigeria had generates alot of controversial about who own Lagos, some even says “Lagos is no man’s land?” How true is this claim, follow the link below to read […]
Fact-Check: Is Lagos Truly No Man’s Land? Read the history
……LAGOS IS TRACED BACK TO NUPE ROOTS The origin and history of Lagos traced back to deep and full Nupe roots. Lady Flora Shaw (Mrs Frederick Lugard), R.F. Ruxton, and other authorities related that Lagos was originally a Nupe settlement founded by a detachment of Nupe colonialists from the interior. Lagos was originally founded as […]
Fact-Check: 14 Times Nigeria Redesigned Banknotes in the Past (Photos)
On October 26, 2022, Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), announced that the country’s apex bank would be redesigning the N200, N500 and N1,000 notes. Emefiele said the move became imperative because the country needed to improve on its currencies’ security and features, mitigate counterfeiting, preserve the collective national heritage, control […]
Fact-Check: 6 Six Most Powerful/Brave Tribes In Nigeria (Photo)
1. Yoruba The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá) are an ethnic group of Southwestern and North central Nigeria as well as Southern and Central Benin known as the Yorubaland cultural region of West Africa. The Yoruba constitute over 50 million people in total; the majority of this population is from Nigeria and make up […]
D.O. FAGUNWA: Read How The Great Nigeria Author Die a Tragic Death
When Nigerian literary giants are brought up in conversations and publications, it is usual for Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Buchi Emecheta and even Chimamanda Adichie’s names to come up more often. One name that is often conspicuously missing in the all-time greats’ list is D.O. Fagunwa. The man, Fagunwa Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa, a […]
HISTORY OF IGBAJA PEOPLE
Igbaja is a community in Ifelodun Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria, at an elevation of 349 m. It is about 40 km southeast of Ilorin, and is in Igbomina country. The Ilorin Provincial Gazetteer (1918) dates the settlement of Igbaja as late 17th or early 18th century, while the Igbaja District Gazetteer (1933–35) puts […]
OLÓOLÚ – THE FATHER OF ALL MASQUERADES IN IBADAN
Egungun (masquerading) is a popular practice among the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. They see it as a channel to connect themselves to their ancestors. Oloolu is one powerful egungun or eegun in the Yoruba city of Ibadan. Oloolu is not in any way strange to Ibadan natives and dwellers. At the mention of Oloolu, […]
2022: Year Of Killing, ASUU strike, deaths, pains – Over 8,000 persons killed across Nigeria
Given the effects of the worst flood in the history of Nigeria, high-profile deaths, an eight-month strike by public university teachers, unceasing killings and kidnapping for ransom, and worsening economic woes among others, 2022, which expires today, is a year many Nigerians will like to forget in a hurry. In 2022, the National Bureau of […]
80 FACTS ABOUT BENIN KINGDOM
Here are 80 FACTS ABOUT BENIN KINGDOM: 1. The First Storey Building in Nigeria was built at Ughoton by the Dutch in the year 1718, and it was called “The Factory”. The said building was destroyed by the British during the war against the Benins in 1897. The site of the building is still intact. […]
HISTORY OF AARE ONA KAKANFO
According to history, the creation of the title of Aare Ona Kakanfo was the direct consequence of the ideas of a former ruler of Old Oyo Empire, Alaafin Ajagbo, who reigned in the 1600s. His predecessors, from Ajaka, who succeeded Sango (the god of thunder), to Aganju, Kori, Oluaso, Onigbogi, Eguguojo, and Orompoto to Abipa […]