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 […]
ÌJÀKADÌ L’ORÒ Ọ̀FÀ:THE BATTLE FOR AKỌGUN || PART 5
I came out of Ààrẹ’s forth with my slave girl. I made sure she saw the lifeless body of Kuruki on our way out. This is the fate that would have befell her had I refuse to beg for her life. I led her out of the place still tied by the hand. From now […]
ÌJÀKADÌ L’ORÒ Ọ̀FÀ: THE BATTLE FOR AKỌGUN || PART 4
My heart was almost coming out of my mouth when I entered the fort of Ààrẹ. It was a place of dread even for warriors like me. Spiked human heads were mounted on rooftop of the mud fence which covered about 30 houses that formed the fort of Aare. Some had rotten completely and some […]
ÌJÀKADÌ L’ORÒ Ọ̀FÀ: THE BATTLE FOR AKỌGUN || PART 3
were still kọ́bí left unoccupied after 1,382 slaves we brought have been securely put in kọ́bí. This is to tell you how big Aláàfin’s palace was. Very early in the morning of the next day, message got to me that Ààrẹ-ọ̀nà Kakaǹfò wanted to see me. The messenger met my Ifá priest performing divination for […]
ÌJÀKADÌ L’ORÒ Ọ̀FÀ: THE BATTLE FOR AKỌGUN (PART 2)
It was one of my trusted ìlàrí that woke me up the next morning. He was visibly agitated and panting with incoherent words coming from his mouth. I could note something was wrong. Could it be that some raiders have besieged our stop-over? Or a lion or leopard has entered the camp? I saw myself […]