National Repository of Nigeria
The Apex Repository of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with objectives to:
- Preserve in electronic format the intellectual and cultural resources of Nigeria for posterity.
- Increase the visibility of the Nigerian knowledge storehouse and its scholarly, literary and cultural heritage; and
- Increase the availability and accessibility of Nigerian content to the global community.
Our Categories
Select a Category to browse its collections.
- Speeches/Essays of past and present Presidents, Political office holders of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other well meaning Nigerians
- These are a collection of sound recordings, such as lectures, interviews, podcasts, music, and oral histories. These audio materials cover a wide range of topics and are available for listening, learning, and research purposes."
- Collection containing extensive selection of framed autographs, manuscripts, historical books and materials from pre-colonial times
- A collection of the constitutions, Laws and Acts of the Federal Government of Nigeria, all Political parties and parastatals
- Historical information of Nigerians based on personal narration
- A collection of all official government gazettes and circulars by the Federal Government of Nigeria and its federating states.
- These are a collection of materials that support the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of indigenous languages. These resources include language learning materials, dictionaries, stories and cultural documents that reflect the linguistic and cultural diversity of indigenous communities."
- A collection of writings on different subjects published in journals and other periodicals
- A collection of Maps of different locations in Nigeria
Recent Submissions
NEWBREED Magazine: Nigeria's foremost News Magazine Every Fortnight vol. 3, no. 16. 15th April, 1991
(Lagos state( Plot 14, Western Avenue, Alaka Estate, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1991-04-15) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie
■ Cover: Johnson,Taylor: The untold story of two killers: Prince Yormie Johnson’s recent denial of allegations that he kil led his Nigerian aide, Mr. Emma Obuke, has been challenged by insiders who claim that such an act is just what the mercurial Liberian rebel leaderis capable of perpetrating.
■ Interview: It is a change not a distortion- Gado Nasko
■ Cover: Awotunsin, Imodibie's killer executed: Charles Taylor’s henchman, Putu Major, the man who was said to have murdered the two Nigerian Journalists in Liberia (Tayo Awotunsin and Krees Imodibie) is no more.
■ Cover: Another Blow For Liberia: Liberia already torn asunder by a savage civil war which has de stroyed its economy, is now trapped in a macabre drama which threatens to deplete the nation’s fast vanishing finances even further.
■ Politics: NRC begins mending fences in Anambra: As the political reality on the ground begins to unfold nationwide, following the re cent victory of social democrats over republicans at the December 8,1990 local government elections,
■ Society: So long prohibition: Soldiers and Wives flood Nigerian Market with banned Rice: Contrary to the brief of their jobs security agents in the country whose duty it is to control and check the influx of contraband food items into the country
■ PMAN'S night of missing stars: This year's Nigerian music award night has come and gone. Like last year's and it's maiden edition
■ Metroline still to wait: Commuters relief not in sight as Rasaki shifts metro funding private sector: Urban transportion in Lagos may collapse by the close of the century unless the multi million naira metroline project in the state is reviewed
■ Interview: We Are Moving With The National - Garba Duba As part ofthe restructuring exercise currently going on in the armed forces, the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is fine-tuning its training programmes in order to ensure that the Nigerian military officer of today is abreast with the challenges of modern Soldiering.
■ International: Gearing up for world’s biggest re-construction job: Rebuilding Kuwait will take at least decade and will cost billions ofdollars. It will be an enormous task— and the major international Firms get a slice of the work.
■ Sport: Return ofMunich: Terrorists May Disrupt All-African Games: The biggest sports event in Africa, the All-African Games billed for Cairo, Egypt, in September, may be stormed by terrorists.
NEWBREED Magazine: Nigeria's foremost News Magazine Every Fortnight 1st April , 1991
(Lagos state (Plot 14, Western Avenue, Alaka Estate, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1991-04-01) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie
■ Cover: Why Oyakhilome was removed: The former chairman of the National Drug Law Enforce ment Agency (NDLEA) would not have expected to end his career as a drug fighter in this manner,
■ Interview: I never knew it would lead to this: Newbreed’s interview with Fidelis Oyakhilome on his association with Jennifer
■ Everybody Uses Oyakhilome’s Name — Source X: Source X is a middle aged man who is me of the actors in the on going Oyakhilome-Jennifer Madike drug saga.
■ Cover: Shoot-out At Odilibe’s House: Policeman, nightguard wounded: Barely four months before Greg Odilibe fell into the dragnet purportedly set for him by the National Drug Law Enforce ment Agency (NDLEA) last October, his younger and more wealthy brother, Sunny Odilibe who is said to be in his late twen ties was embroiled in a controversy of his own.
■ Nation: Commercial Enterprises Stall Abuja’s Development: Industrial organisations and com mercial enterprises have been identified as part of the draw back to the full development of the new Federal Capital, Abuja.
■ News: NDA Braces Up for professionalism: One immediate fall-out of the current purge of personnel from the armed forces is the drastic reduction in the num ber of Cadets to be admitted into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), the only institution in the country
■ Environment: Inferno in the Desert: An awesome battle looms in the Kuwaiti desert to quell the fires raging at some 600 oil wells sabotaged by retreating Iraqi troops. The job will cost many millions of dollars, and experts fear it could cost human lives too.
■ Scene: Kubwa hill centre of the nation: Speculations and arguments as to whether the newly developed capital of the nation, Abuja, is actually situated in the middle of Nigeria. has generated national con oversy since the decision was taken to move the capital, fifteen years ago.
■ Sports: End in Sight for Maradona: Still, at his best, the most breathtaking talent in world foot ball, Diego Maradona is today an unhappy man. His club, Napoli, is suing him, vice police are investigating him and Maradona, now 30, says he’s going to get out of professional football
■ Snapshots: For Augustus —a feather: Vice President Augustus Aikhomu, a man who moves with the wind...But yet directs the wind. 51, added yet another bright feather to his privileged cap on Monday
■ Snapshots: A capful of millions: NIPSS Alumni launch endowment to uplift Kuru
■ Health: Malaria Here To Stay: Without improved sanitary conditions and greater public enlightenment, ma laria promises to retain its number one (1) position as the prime cause of absenteeism and low pro ductivity among students and workers.
NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 3, no. 7 December, 1974
(Lagos state (35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1974-12-07) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie
■ The war on corruption - Who will bell the cat? NEWBREED subscribes to the view that the war on corruption could be won if we are sincere and practical about it. Who to bell the cat? The process of finding such a personality;
■ The whole truth about revenue allocation: In a Federal system of government, the problem arises how to achieve fairness in revenue matters between the centre and the states on one hand, and between the different States on the other.
■ Muhammed Ali: Champion and still Champion: October 30 established the date when the legendary Muhammed Ali knocked out in eight rounds odds on-favourite George Foreman in a world heavyweight boxing fight watched by millions of viewers all over the world.
■ Jackson five tours Africa: Motown comes home to Africa, but not so many of its world-famed artists. So it was that when in March the Jackson Five, easily the youngest; the most popular and successful of the groups recording under the Motown label
NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 2, no.10 March, 1974
(Lagos state( 35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1974-03-10) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie
■ Can the independence of Guinea Bissau be sustained. By our Political Analyst: The proclamation of the birth of Guinea Bissau albeit unilaterally by the P.A.I.G.C. on 23rd September 1973 was one of the most courageous acts of an oppressed indi genous people in modern Africa’s political history
■ Newbreed politics: 1976: Why the military should continue: 1976 is the target date the military voluntarily indicated as a possibility to hand over power to civilian politicians.
■ International scene: The world wide oil for arms scramble: As all the giant industrialised nations of the world brood hopelessly in the chil ling pool of the Arab oil squeeze, a new and potentially dangerous dimension in the pattern of international trade is begin ning to emerge—the "arms for oil" deals
■ The crisis of surplus women: MrsMary Babalola:Perhaps, one of the biggest setbacks to a place! There are so many sweet birds the women liberation movement in this about that you don't know which one to country today could be found in the pheno- choose". I answered him over my shoul menon called "Women Explosion".
■ Entertainment: The blues comes to Lagos: Sunday, the 25th day of November 1973 and Lagos, ever in search of new thrills, was listening to "The Thrill is Gone". The blues had come to Lagos in the person of the master of the art, Riley B. King, popularly known as B.B. King. B.B. had been to some African countries on a tour
NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 2, no.9 February, 1974
(Lagos state (35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1974-02) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie
■ Newbreed politics: The war for economic justice in Nigeria by Olu Akaraogun: If the utterances of certain members of the Nigerian plutocratic elite are to be believed, there may be a change for the better, in the indeterminate future, for the poor and dispossessed Nigerian masses.
■ International scene: Ali defeat frazier in fight of the century: Before the superfight II, the contest of the century (Ali Vs. Frazier), Ali promi sed that he was going to put Joe Frazier's (smoking Joe) light out as part of his contribution to the energy crisis.
■ What married couples don't know about sex by Miss Febisola Akintelure: Much has been written about sex and the role of sex in the lives of a couple that very little is now left to be desired. We all know that to love and to be loved is an essential aspect of human nature.
■ Essay: Pan-Africanism some recent development: The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as it emerged in 1963 was a child of compromise. Before 1963, two broad political divisions were evident on the African scene.
■ Nigerian notes: Politics of the Nigerian iron and steel industry: As far back as 1952, Nigeria had been making preparations for the establishment of an Iron and Steel Industry.
■ Newbreed interview: Gentleman Mbu by Chris Okolie: Mathew Mbu an Ogoja man in South Eastern State of Nigeria entered politics with only little qualification above Stan dard Six, the matriculation. At the age 24, he won his first election under the candidacy of N.C.N.C.
■ Entertainment: The Pop generation: Conclusion of the counter culture serial: The pop revolution in music is a fairly recent phenomenon. If I were asked to put an arbitrary date on when the revolu tion erupted, I would say the middle 1950’s.