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Iyalode Wuraola Esan
How Iyalode Wuraola Esan Became Nigeria’s First Female Senator

Sixty years ago, a Yoruba woman – Wuraola Esan became the first woman in pre-…

Adegoke Adelabu: Remembering the great Penkelemes politician who died tragically at 43

The word ‘Penkelemes’ will always resonate with members of the political class in Southwest Nigeria…

Jolade Tella: 30-year-old human calculator tells story of what it was like to be a child genius

In a video shared on the internet in September 2019, a lady armed with a…

Femi Otedola
How Femi Otedola convinced his father to run for Lagos governor

When Femi Otedola approached his father, Sir Michael Otedola, and pitched the idea of running…

Olugbenga Owolabi
Olugbenga Owolabi – He Left Nigeria In His 20s, Abducted And Killed On His Return In His 50s. The Horrific Story Of Ogbomoso Hotelier

It was evening on Thursday, July 28, 2022. The fury of the day’s sun had…

Isaac Adaka Boro
Isaac Adaka Boro – The Ijaw soldier who declared secession of Niger Delta Republic

The January 15, 1966 coup led by an Igbo military officer – Kaduna Nzeogwu, altered…

Ikoli Harcourt
Ikoli Harcourt Whyte – The Nigerian music genius who disgraced disability to become the father of Igbo church music 

Before his tragic death in an auto crash in 1977, Ikoli Harcourt Whyte was one…

King Gezo
King Gezo of Dahomey: West Africa’s most notorious slave-trading monarch who had an all-female army

Historians perceived him as a notorious slave-trader who terrorised several communities in Nigeria and Benin…

Ojukwu Bunker
I visited Ojukwu Bunker, the hiding place of the Biafran warlord during the civil war. Here’s what I found

Shortly after the Nigerian civil war broke out on July 6, 1967, following the declaration…

Taofik: How I escaped death and started a family under Oshodi bridge

I had just finished having conversations with the top three winners of the Chess in…

Timileyin’s Story: From stealing to escaping kidnapping and living under Oshodi Bridge 

“The day after I got to Lagos, I was asleep in front of a shop…

‘My Parents Thought I was Evil’, Keji, Chess In Slums finalist, tells Neusroom

“The day I left Ibadan, my mother gave me N200 to buy N150 food and…

When Victims of Rogue Loan Apps Fight Back

On Friday, August 20, 2021, Adebowale Sunday worked on a building located at Alafia Estate…

Captain Hadizah Lantana Odoh: How Nigerian Airways’ first female pilot was tragically murdered by her domestic staff

This latest cases of violence against women and unprosecuted killings across the country brings back…

shina rambo neusroom special
Shina Rambo – The robbery kingpin who vanished in 1992 and resurfaced as a preacher years after

Olusegun Adeshina Adisa Kuye popularly known as Shina Rambo was one of the last robbery…

lawrence anini neusroom special
Lawrence Anini – the cab driver who became Nigeria’s most notorious robbery kingpin

“Anini will forever be remembered in the history of crime in this country, but it…

Isiaka ‘Mighty Joe’ Busari – the ‘Strongman of Idi Oro’ whose execution still generates controversy

On the morning of June 6, 1973, armed policemen arrived at Kirikiri prisons, in Apapa,…

ishola oyenusi neusroom special
Ishola Oyenusi: The robbery kingpin and serial jail breaker who boasted to police he would escape before execution

“Many rich men who ride in cars are thieves,” Ishola Oyenusi told a fellow inmate…