There is never a scarcity of shocking events, revelations, encounters and experiences in the course of the interesting times we seem destined to live in. But...
I watched the reactions to yesterday’s ?#?HistoryClass? with quite some amusement. Let’s face a bitter truth, we are not ready as a people for progress. Progress...
First, an apology for abruptly suspending #HistoryClass. I had to take that drastic step because in Nigeria’s just concluded political season, we found that nothing was...
At dawn on 4 July, 1918, Suberu Sabongida, a Private with the Royal West African Frontier Force faced a firing squad. Sabongida, who’s service number was 5529,...
Today’s we will be looking at a chronology of the Nigerian Civil War which lasted for 30 months from July 1967 to January 1970. Because of the...
The Nigerian media has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent times, especially because of the Chibok girls. Today’s History Class is about the media...
In 1808 forces loyal to the Fulani scholar Shehu Othman dan Fodiyo advanced on Bornu, one of the great Muslim empires of West Africa, rolling it...
Today we will be discussing the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria. All through the 19th...
