Opinion: History Through The Headlines (6), By Muni King-Keazor and Ed Emeka Keazor
Lagos Weekly Record‘A Table of Principal Events in Yoruba History – a Review’: John Otunba Payne was the first African to act as the registrar of the Supreme Court of Lagos. Of Ijebu royal origin , he was responsible for naming the first streets of Lagos. He was also the publisher of the influential ‘Payne’s Almanack’, which recorded activities in the colony and beyond. His record of the ‘Principal Events in Yoruba History’ can be credited as the first written history of the Yoruba .
Then, women’s Football had been popular in Nigeria for several years, with one of the earliest documented matches being played in 1943 in Onitsha. By 1950, however, there were several women’s teams across the country. Ironically, this was at a time when women were forbidden from playing football on football association pitches in the United Kingdom.‘PhD For Aluko’: Dr. Sam Aluko was an economist who served almost all his career at the University of Ife.
The Nigerian civil war commenced on July 6, 1967 with hostilities at Gakem, near Obudu in present day Cross River State. The, owned by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was a member of the Consultative Assembly of the then Republic of Biafra, apparently endeavoured to keep some form of journalistic neutrality during the early stages of the conflict. Three headlines in the first fortnight after the hostilities commenced illustrate this. There are:‘Chief Okereke Appeals to Ibos in Lagos.
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