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Saturday, 7 November 2026

Lieutenant Commander Makinde: A Frame from the Ceremony which bestowed the Nigerian Navy its First Colours in 1968

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AI-Enhanced frame of an Associated Press newsreel. Lieutenant Commander Emmanuel Makinde (Aide-de-Camp to Rear Admiral Joseph Wey) strides...
Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Exhibiting the Shoulder Roll While Sparring in 1990

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Sparring with Derrick in June 1990. Google search terms: "Shoulder roll": Google search result: "The shoulder roll is an ad...
Monday, 2 November 2026

My father as part of the cortege accompanying the coffin of the slain military head of state Major General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi

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Enhanced frame from a newsreel produced by Associated Press. My father Lieutenant Emmanuel Makinde is the figure at the top right corner of ...
Friday, 16 October 2026

The boy who laughed at Radio Moscow but decades later was broadcast on The Voice of Russia

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"Loved the primal scene of the little boy laughing at Soviet shortwave radio broadcasts... the very same boy who would eventually end u...
Sunday, 11 October 2026

Why Mike Tyson was wrong to attend a Donald Trump rally

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  Mike Tyson (right) and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House prior to their departure for a mid-term election campaign rally held...
Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Guinea versus Ghana: A Forgotten ‘Cold War’ Crisis After the Overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah

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“It is in Guinea that we shall stop the criminal hand of imperialism which strangles Africa.” -Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of Guinea, quote...
Saturday, 3 October 2026

Soviet-era media versus the contemporary Western Ministry of Truth

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As a current affairs obsessed-child, I did often laugh in amusement when listening on shortwave radio to the strident, unyielding tones of t...