Category: History

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15th-August, 1769 – 5th-May, 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars....

The origin of Ekajuk clan, to date is still shrouded in mystery. Briefly put or according to a widely peddled oral narrative, the people of Ekajuk came from somewhere far away, probably East or...

Slavery in one form or the other is as old as human history and there is hardly any society where this institution did not exist. Its ubiquitous nature notwithstanding, the definition of the term...

Here is the story of Emmanuel Nwude who committed the largest fraud in Nigeria by selling a non-existent airport to a Brazilian identified as “Nelson Sakaguchi” for $242 million between 1995 and 1998. Emmanuel...

In a 2016 article, Bayo Oluwasanmi described Dele Giwa as “a flaming journalist with a fiery message of rebuke” who had a “knack for packaging stories that injected sleeplessness and nightmares in the tyrants of his days”....

He was the only black man in a university of 12,173 whites. This is the touching story of George McLaurin, the first black man admitted to the University of Oklahoma (OU), and forced to...

Archaeologists working in Nazareth, the hometown of Jesus Christ have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus was brought up by Mary and Joseph. According...