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The Guardian was established in 1983 by Alex Ibru, an entrepreneur, and Stanley Macebuh, a top journalist with the Daily Times newspapers, with its model copied from The Guardian in the UK. The Guardian was a pioneer in introducing high-quality journalism to Nigeria with thoughtful editorial content.
The East African Federation ( Swahili: Shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki) is a proposed political union of the eight sovereign states of the East African Community in the African Great Lakes region – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Somalia and Uganda – as a single federated sovereign state. [6]
It was launched in 2015. It is an independent, pro-investigation multi-media online news platform focused primarily on politics, policy and economy. Awards and nominations. In October 2017, Ripples Nigeria correspondent Obakeye Akin emerged finalist in the Business and Economy category of the PwC Media Excellence Awards. He was announced third ...
Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe GCFR PC (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), usually referred to as Zik, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who served as the 3rd and first black governor-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966).
Ibadan, Nigeria. Website. www .tribuneonlineng .com. The Nigerian Tribune is an English-language newspaper published in Ibadan, Nigeria. It was established in 1949 by Obafemi Awolowo and is the oldest running private Nigerian newspaper. [1] In the colonial era, the newspaper served as the mouthpiece for Awolowo's populist welfare programs.
He aroused political awareness through his newspaper, the Lagos Daily News. He also led the Nigerian National Democratic Party, which dominated elections in Lagos from its founding in 1922 until the ascendancy of the National Youth Movement in 1938. His political platform called for economic and educational development, Africanization of the ...
May 7, 2024 at 4:03 AM. By MacDonald Dzirutwe. LAGOS (Reuters) - The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance on Tuesday accused Nigeria of setting a dangerous precedent after its executives were ...
The Action Group (AG) was a Nigerian nationalist political party established in Ibadan on 21 March 1951, by Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The party was founded to serve as the platform for realizing his preliminary objective of mobilizing Western Nigerians to forestall the NCNC control of the Western Region and the subsequent aim of cooperating with other nationalist parties to win independence for ...