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Every case set in what is now Nigeria, best-known first. Cities, states and old kingdoms count under the country that holds them today.

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Cases in Nigeria

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Cases
6
Years
1914 to 2023
Region
Africa
Main subjects
Egypt and Africa, Music and sport, Military families, Fame and fortune
Updated
30 October 2026
Fela Kuti: Fela Kuti circa 19861997 · Lagos, NigeriaFela Kuti's brother announced he died of AIDS, he was buried in his own courtyard, and his estate signed with WME 26 years laterFela Anikulapo-Kuti married 27 women publicly and supported a household of more than 100 people. He died in a Lagos hospital at 58.ipsnews.net and 5 moreMausoleum of General Sani Abacha in Kano1998 · AbujaFour governments returned more than $780 million of General Sani Abacha's money to NigeriaA November 1998 report by the next military government said about $1.4 billion in cash had been moved out through national security adviser Ismaila Gwarzo and Mohammed Sada.justice.gov and 3 moreMap of Nigeria, marked on the globe2023 · Lagos, NigeriaMohbad's father has kept the singer unburied for nearly three years until a court-ordered DNA test shows whether his grandson is his son's childThe singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, known as Mohbad, died on 12 September 2023 and was buried the next day. Police later exhumed the body.radionigerialagos.gov.ng and 3 moreBus Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa (5927206987): 9 July 2011. Ten feet high, steel sculpture of a Nigerian Bus parked behind the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tottenham. It's a memorial to 1995 · Port Harcourt, Rivers State, NigeriaNigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists over oil-region protests, buried them without their families, and pardoned them 30 years laterKen Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were convicted by a military tribunal of murdering four Ogoni chiefs. They maintained their innocence.Al Jazeera and 2 moreA residential area in Umuahia: A residential area in Umuahia1981 · Lagos, NigeriaNigeria's Supreme Court upheld Gladys Ukeje's share of her father's Lagos estate and declared the Igbo rule excluding daughters void in 2014Lazarus Ogbonnaya Ukeje, a native of Umuahia, lived most of his life in Lagos and owned real property there. He died intestate in December 1981.journals.unizik.edu.ng and 4 moreInterior of Oba's compound burnt during siege of Benin City, 1897: Interior of Oba's compound burnt during seige of Benin City (present day Nigeria) , with bronze plaques in the fo1914 · Calabar, NigeriaNigeria vested ownership of the looted Benin Bronzes in the Oba of Benin in 2023In February 1897 a British force of about 1,200 troops took Benin City, capital of the Kingdom of Benin in today's Nigeria.nms.ac.uk and 10 more