SPEAKERS at the recent Obafemi Awolowo Webinar have noted that the African continent is contending with complex and evolving challenges, which must be frontally tackled for it to make political and ...

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is a public educational institution established in 1962. The university, starting from the 70s-80s, became a leader among African universities. Due to the excellent ...

Obafemi Awolowo Foundation will hold the 2025 Awolowo Memorial Webinar with the theme: “Our 21st Century World: Reflections and Projections” on March 6, 2025, as part of its mandate to ...

Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed confidence in retaining his March 9 election victory at Gubernatorial Election Petition Tribunal in Ikeja. Sanwo-Olu’s victory is ...

At the ongoing Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) 2025 in Abuja, Olumide Adeosun, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer... The Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) has decried ...

Portraits of Winston Churchill and other renowned British Prime Ministers have been taken down from the walls of Parliament following Labour's 2024 election win. After winning 412 seats in the ...

Stars stopped by PEOPLE and Audi's portrait studio to get silly with their friends and castmates (and new SAG Awards!) Alex Apatoff is the former Executive Editor of PEOPLE Digital. She has worked ...

IBB explained that Gowon made what could only be described as a poltical masterstroke as he sought to calm the situation by releasing the leader of the Yorubas, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, from Calabar ...

has confirmed that the 1966 military coup was not an “Igbo coup” but a sort of revolution aimed at bringing Obafemi Awolowo to power. Ejimakor said those responsible were motivated by a ...

The former leader confirmed that the original intention of the coup plotters was to release political figure, Obafemi Awolowo, from detention and install him as the president. Excerpts from the ...

A still Platon's Abstract: The Art of Design episode featuring his portrait of Adele (Image credit: Netflix / Platon) The technical aspects of Platon’s work are fascinating, too. He keeps his setups ...

According to Babangida, the primary objective of the coup was to free Chief Obafemi Awolowo from prison and install him as Nigeria’s leader. He cites this as evidence against the claim that the ...