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Over the past week or so, a disturbing question has migrated from the fringe corners of the internet into the bloodstream of ...

Nigerians woke up to the news of the passing of a prodigious intellect, renowned scholar, distinguished statesman, and former ...

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In a masquerade cult shrouded in secrecy, where identity of the masquerader is hidden from everyone, male or female, except initiates, how did Ìbídùn know the personality shrouded under the agò ...

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The man behind reimaginings of classics from ‘Oedipus’ to ‘Hamlet’ on why murderer Raoul Moat is the subject of his latest play ...

In 125 B.C., citizens of the Greek colony of Massalia (Massillia in Latin), now Marseille, a port since 600 B.C., came under attack ... empire was subjugated. Julius Caesar established a naval ...

Even with his horse shot out from under him, Napoleon liberates the ... since they believed their commander was the greatest soldier since Julius Caesar. The first stages of the Waterloo campaign ...