It was Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna. *Originally entitled “A Natural Spring,” Uzor Maxim Uzoatu contributed this article to People in TheNEWS, 1900-2000, a special publication in year 2000.

Emmanuel Ifeajuna, a Nigerian high jumper, was the first black African to win a gold medal but his remarkable story had a tragic end. The first time Emmanuel Ifeajuna appeared before a crowd of ...

Reno Omokri has tackled some "revisionists" who he accused of attempting to revise Nigerian history; Omokri disagreed with the claim that Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna plotted the 1966 coup to make the ...

Opinion - In the article Two Matters of State published in the issue of Friday March 25, 2011, The Guardian columnist Dr Reuben Abati vehemently disagreed with decision of the Federal Government ...

The three main conspirators of the coup were Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu, Maj. Emmanuel Ifeajuna and Maj. Adebowale Ademoyega (Author). Without leaving anything unturned, ...

This story goes: It is believed that in 1967, Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna wrote his account of the January 15, 1966 coup and the manuscript mysteriously went missing in the hands of some of Nigeria ...

While Emmanuel Ifeajuna was executed in the Republic of Biafra, on September 25, 1967, exactly 618 days after he riddled Prime Minister Tafawa-Balewa’s body with bullets.

What transpired between the Biafran warlord, Gen. Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and his bosom friend Emmanuel Ifeajuna, during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, has been adapted into a short-story film ...

The emergence of psych rock in Nigeria had less to do with mind-altering drugs and more to do with mind-altering circumstances. The country had been independent for only six years ...

From 1954 when Emmanuel Ifeajuna won Nigeria’s first ever gold medal in the men’s high jump at the Commonwealth Games with a record leap of 2.03m, Nigeria has used the games, now in the 21st ...