Nigeria
Facts and historical events related to Nigeria, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- Islamist militants massacre at least 162 people in attacks on the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara State,… (2026)
- BREAKING: Former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari (2015 - 2023), has passed away in London.
- Nigerian multimillionaire Simon Guobadia regrets his 15-month marriage to reality TV star Porsha Williams.…
- How Nigeria's Gen. Abacha Saved Gen. Babangida (IBB) from the Gideon Orka 1990 coup. Around 2 am on April 2…
- Check out this this interesting article from the New York Times of 10th October, 1886, describing how the c…
- Nigeria's former President, Goodluck Jonathan, highlights how the United States under President Barack Obam…
- The Head of State of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, on why the Nigerian Civil War…
- Today being the 27th anniversary of the death of Nigeria's strongman, Gen. Sani Abacha in 2008, here's a de…
- A clip of the wedding between Nigerian-English international footballer Eberechi Eze and Nama in London. [�…
- A recent clip of over 60 Nigerian ladies reportedly imprisoned at Bamako Prisons, Mali, pleading for help f…
- NTA News announcing the death of Chief MKO Abiola, the purported winner of the annulled 1993 Nigerian presi…
- Lord Frederick Lugard, colonial Governor of Uganda and Nigeria, wrote this about Syrians (and Lebanese) in…
- On the 15th day of August 1893, Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan in today's South West Nigeria, completely ceded…
- Nigerian singer, actress, and politician Onyeka Onwenu died. (2024)
- A series of massacres targeting Berom civilians unfolded in Plateau State, Nigeria, killing over 200 people. (2023)
- More than 100 people died when an overcrowded wedding boat capsized on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nige… (2023)
- These three Nigerian men stowed away on a tanker vessel that arrived in the Canary Islands yesterday from L…
- Nigeria's Israel Adesanya is still the King of the middleweights! He retains his UFC middleweight title in…
- Per Forbes, a town called Nnewi, Anambra State, bred Nigeria's first billionaire and has more billionaires…
- Port Harcourt, one of Nigeria's biggest cities, was named after then UK Secretary for Colonies, Lord Lewis…
- Nigeria's Israel Adesanya defeats Robert Whittaker by decision at #UFC271 to retain his title and keep his…
- BREAKING: Former Nigerian Head of State, Chief Ernest Shonekan, has passed on. He was made the Head of the…
- BREAKING: Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without b…
- Nigeria has just been added to the UK red list. Check out these Countries with more Omicron cases than Nige…
- This Nigerian Emmanuel Anenih sued MTN for unlawfully deducting 50 naira from his airtime per unsolicited c…
- Nigeria's Kamaru Usman successfully defends his UFC Welterweight title against Colby Covington who is seen…
- According to The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), 99.4% of all the bank accounts in Nigeria ha…
- Throwback to when Nigeria's Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha arrested his deputy, Gen. Oladipo Diya and othe…
- BREAKING: The Nigerian government has paid US$50,000 in cash to terrorists unleashing mayhem across the nat…
- Africa's top 20 military powers today ranked by country, from strongest to weakest. 1. Egypt🇪🇬 Algeria🇩�…
- BREAKING: Nigeria's President Buhari lifts ban on Twitter (in place since June this year) as the nation cel…
- Countries with the cheapest cost to purchase 1 Gigabyte of mobile data in Africa: Sudan 🇸🇩 - 27 cents (US…
- Just 10 days ago Nigeria's President Buhari published an op-ed in Financial Times hammering the U.S. to pro…
- Here are the hotspots for African venture capital investment, with Nigeria ($307 million), Kenya ($305 mill…
- Check out our stunning beauties at the Miss World 1967 pageant... The Gambia (Janie Jack), Ghana (Araba Mar…
- African nations with the highest number of Internet users (millions) 1. Nigeria 🇳🇬 154.3 million 2. Egypt…
- We can now confirm that popular Nigerian Pastor, T.B Joshua, has died at the age of 57.
- BREAKING: Nigeria's Federal Government has suspended Twitter indefinitely in the country.
- BREAKING: 🇲🇼 Malawi's Supreme Court has just abolished the death penalty. At the end of the year, at leas…
- On March 3 1966, the CIA predicts the July 29th 1966 bloody counter-coup led by junior military officers th…