Nigeria
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Nigeria, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave Trader: A Family's Reckoning (Article)
- The End of the Nigerian Civil War and Gowon's 'No Victor, No Vanquished' Policy (Article)
- The Death of Fela Kuti, Father of Afrobeat (Article)
- The 1861 Treaty That Made Lagos a British Colony (Article)
- Nigeria's Independence Day, October 1, 1960 (Article)
- How the CIA Watched Nigeria's 1966 Crisis Unfold in Real Time (Article)
- Nnamdi Azikiwe: The Journalist Who Became Nigeria's First President (Article)
- Muhammad Ali's 1971 Goodwill Visit to Nigeria (Article)
- Why Femi Otedola Kept Falling Off, and Back Onto, Forbes's Billionaire List (Article)
- Nigeria's First Coup: The January 1966 Uprising Led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (Article)
- The 1975 Coup That Overthrew Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon in Kampala (Article)
- MKO Abiola: The 1993 Election He Won, and His Death in Custody in 1998 (Article)
- Air Peace's Free Flights Home During South Africa's 2019 Xenophobic Attacks (Article)
- Majek Fashek's 1992 Letterman Performance and His Reggae Legacy (Article)
- Chief Obafemi Awolowo's Release From Prison, August 1966 (Article)
- The Death of Tony Allen, the Drummer Who Built Afrobeat's Sound (Article)
- How Oyo and Ibadan Fell Under British Protection in 1893 (Article)
- The 1897 Sack of Benin City and the Looting of the Benin Bronzes (Article)
- How Germany Beat Britain to Cameroon in 1884 (Article)
- Nigeria's Population Explosion, From 16 Million to a Projected Global Top Three (Article)
- The Lekki Toll Gate Shooting and the Nigerian Government's Denial (Article)
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's First Day as the WTO's First African, First Woman Director-General (Article)
- The University of Aberdeen's Return of a Benin Bronze (Article)
- The Church of England's Benin Bronzes Pledge: What It Actually Covers (Article)
- Bishop Ajayi Crowther Held Hostage on the Niger, 1867 (Article)
- Nnewi, the Nigerian Town That Bred the Country's First Billionaire (Article)
- Sani Abacha: Nigeria's Strongman and His Sudden Death in 1998 (Article)
- Fela Kuti's 'Zombie' Enters the Grammy Hall of Fame (Article)
- The Ife Bronzes: A German Explorer Couldn't Believe Africans Made Them, So He Blamed Atlantis (Article)
- Sungbo's Eredo: A 100-Mile Wall in Nigeria That Took a Century to Rediscover (Article)
- The Nok Civilisation: Central Nigeria's Terracotta Culture, and What Its Dates Actually Show (Article)
- Philip Emeagwali's Real Gordon Bell Prize, and the 'Father of the Internet' Claim He Added Later (Article)
- Babatunde and Yetunde: Yoruba Names That Mean an Ancestor Returned (Article)
- Sharo: The Fulani Rite Where Young Men Are Flogged Into Manhood (Article)
- Why Yoruba Communities Have the World's Highest Documented Twinning Rate (Article)
- How a Web-Popularity Ranking Became Africa's Go-To University List (Article)
- Why Virginia Has More Igbo Descendants Than Almost Anywhere Else in the Diaspora (Article)
- Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: The Novel That Launched African Literature in English (Article)
- Where Africa's Millionaires Lived in 2012: Johannesburg, Cairo, and Lagos (Article)
- Nigeria's 1914 Amalgamation: A Budget Fix That Created a Country (Article)
- The Chibok Schoolgirls: What Actually Happened After Boko Haram's 2014 Abduction (Article)
- David Oyedepo, Forbes's Pick for the World's Richest Pastor (Article)
- Aliko Dangote and Folorunsho Alakija: Nigeria's Billionaire Firsts (Article)
- How Lincoln University Shaped Africa's First Presidents (Article)
- More Than a Million Africans Fought for Britain in World War II (Article)
- Agbani Darego, the First Black African to Win Miss World (Article)
- Nigeria Recalculated Its Way to 'Africa's Largest Economy' in 2014 (Article)
- The 1997 'Phantom Coup': Abacha's Arrest of His Own Deputy, Oladipo Diya (Article)
- Murtala Muhammed's 1975 Coup Against Yakubu Gowon (Article)
- The 1947 NCNC Delegation to London and the Fight Against the Richards Constitution (Article)
- A 2017 Study Found More Than 10,000 Chinese Firms Operating in Africa (Article)
- Buhari's 1983 Coup Ends Nigeria's Second Republic (Article)
- The CIA's Classified 1970 Verdict on 'Nigeria After the War' (Article)
- Kanem-Bornu: One of Africa's Longest-Lived States (Article)
- The Sokoto Caliphate: West Africa's Most Populous 19th-Century State (Article)
From the Archive
- Gunmen attacked the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara State, western Nigeria. Tolls given differ sharply:… (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)
- Gunmen attacked more than 17 villages across the Bokkos, Barkin Ladi and Mangu areas of Plateau 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…
- Ajayi Crowther's missionary visit to Ịdah, Nigeria, October 1867. He was held hostage as the Igalas almost…