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HOW 200 SPANISH CONQUISTADORS CONQUERED AN EMPIRE OF 10 MILLION INDIANS As of 1533, the Inca Empire was the largest in the world. It covered 2,500 miles and stretched from souther...
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: GIVE BACK Professor Adebola Ogunbiyi, the Acting Dean of the Medical College at the University of Ibadan, organised a Zoom meeting on August 1, 2022, for all...
On October 31, 1501, former Cardinal Cesare Borgia purportedly hosted an orgy in the Vatican with "50 honest prostitutes" in which his own father, Pope Alexander VI, not only atten...
In 2001, a Florida man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to save his eight-year-old nephew just offshore of their sleepy beach town. The shark had managed to get the nephew's arm but h...
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TRUST Major Donatus Okafor, the officer commanding the Federal Guards was tasked with the assassination of Maimalari. It was important that...
A successful arms dealer, Francis Arthur Nzeribe sold weapons to both Nigeria and Biafra during the 30-month Nigerian Civil War. As a matter of fact, Nzeribe traded arms in every s...
Jaja of Opobo was killed with a cup of tea in 1891. King Jaja of Opobo (1821-1891), the wealthiest and most powerful monarch in the Niger Delta and sole founder of Opobo, was Igbo...
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: WHAT GOES AROUND... Liberian President, Samuel Doe was the first world leader to be tortured on camera before being executed and his body desecrated on Septem...
A Liberian army soldier stands ready to execute a former cabinet minister, Cecil Dennis, following the 1980 coup. https://t.co/8Y5bBGEuRP
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: THE MOUNTAINS AND THE LOVE OF A MOTHER There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mo...
JANUARY 15, 1966: WAS IT AN IGBO COUP? Some argue that Major Kaduna Nzeogwu's involvement in the January 1966 coup was part of a grand Igbo plan to "dominate" the country. This ar...
1966: ASSASSINATION OF SIR ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA “Who’s there?” A voice queried from inside. However, Ifeajuna replied by kicking the doors open with his boots. “You’re under...