Flashback

•By The Then Military Governor, Navy Officer, ALFRED DIETTE SPIFF •The Story Of OBSERVER Correspondent, MINARE AMAKIRI Practice of Journalism is fraught with different types of danger. The functions of…

•By Coup Plotter IFEANJUNA In 1966 Besides those who play Russian roulette, a game of death, only a very few persons could hear that their death is imminent and remain…

•How He Held BENIN City Hostage For Many Years Lawrence Anini’s name sound terror to people living in Benin City in the ’80s. Merely mentioning his name could send a…

The time was about 2.10 a.m in the middle of the night on the 15 January 1966. The stage of what could be rightly be described as a  macabre drama…

Change, a permanent feature of life, could be kind or wicked. It  brings happiness or sadness  to beneficiaries and victims alike. Thus distributes bad and good fortune among different groups…

The setting was in 1993, It was a year the military president, General  Ibrahim Babangida’s prolonged transition to civilian rule programme was to end! It didn’t. The planner of the…

A unit of the late maximum ruler,  General Sani Abacha’s killer squad was waiting patiently at a bend close to the Federal High Court on the Catholic Mission Street that…

•The Story Of Alhaji BALARABE MUSA Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa was a leftist politician, who won the governorship election in Kaduna State in 1979. His political party on which he contested…

Chief Obafemi Awolowo played a pivotal role in the restoration of Nigeria’s unity and territorial integrity during the Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970. He was indeed one of the major…

This is the story of how the British government attempted to impose Tax on women in the defunct Eastern Nigeria was heavily resisted. Aba women will not take it. They…