TODAY IN HISTORY

• 2017 - Nigeria

Hip-hop twins, Peter and Paul Okoye (P-square) that dominated the music industry for many years, went their separate ways. According to a letter sent to their lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, by Peter, he demanded a termination of the agreement as a group. • The All Progressives Congress (APC) described chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption, Prof Itse Sagay, as the rogue elephant in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi in reaction to the interview Sagay granted to a newspaper where he described the leadership of the party as “the most unprincipled group of people encouraging and accepting rogues”

• 2016 - Nigeria

National Leader of the APC Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, demanded removal of the party’s chairman, Chief John Odigie-oyegun, over what he called the latter’s anti-democratic handling of party affairs, especially outcome of Ondo State governorship primary.

• 2016 - USA

National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington D.C., as the country’s first black president dedicated the center.

• 2013 - Ghana

Body of renowned poet Kofi Awoonor (78) was returned to Ghana. He was among the 72 civilians shot down by Islamic extremists at the Westgate mall in Nairobi.

• 2011 - Nigeria

next newspaper, run by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Dele Olojede, stopped publication after 2½ years of muckraking and sometimes controversial coverage of Nigeria. Its advertising dwindled in recent months, forcing it from publishing six days a week to only on Sunday.

• 2011 - Kenya

Wangari Maathai (71), environmental activist and Nobel Prize winner, died. She founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977.

• 2010 - Nigeria

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, announced a new political party, Democratic Front for a People's Federation. The party claimed to be a "zero resource" party, a jab at Nigeria's culture of graft and corruption.

• 2002 - Senegal

1,863 passengers and crew perished when Senegal’s crowded MS Joola, a staterun ferry, sank in a storm off the coast of Gambia. The ferry was licensed to carry 550 people but had 1,927 passengers on board, of whom only 64 survived.