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IMPORTANT DATE´S IN THE NIGERIA HISTORY ==>page 1.


ABOUT-NIGERIAN
1960 (October 1): Independence. Nnamdi Azikiwe ("Zik") becomes 1st indigenous Governor General.


1960-1966: First Republic of Nigeria under a British parliamentary system.

1960: Nigeria's joins with Liberia and Togo in the "Monrovia Group" which advocated an extremely loose organization of African states.


1961 (February 11 and 12): People of Northern and Southern Cameroon went to the polls to decide on joining independent Nigeria or the French territory of Cameroon. The south voted to leave Nigeria and the North decided to join Nigeria.


1961 (June 1): Northern Cameroon becomes Sarduana Province of Nigeria, the thirteenth province of Northern Nigeria.


1961 (October 1): Southern Cameroon ceases to be a part of Nigeria 1962: By this time, the northern Northern People's Congress (NPC) controlled the federal government, while violence in the western region forced the dominant party there, the Yoruba "Action Group" (AG), to split in two.


1964: The Northern Peoples Congress(NPC) aligns with a breakaway faction of the Action Group (AG) led by Chief Ladoke Akintola, the Nigerian National Democratic Party(NNDP),to form the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) to contest elections. At the same time, the main Action Group led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo forms alliance with the United Middle-Belt Congress(UMBC)and Alhaji Aminu Kano's Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) and Borno Youth Movement to form the UPGA (United Progressive Grand Alliance).


1965 (November): Elections triggered violence in the western region, where Igbo civil servants of the Hausa- dominated federal government represented authority to the Yoruba population.


1966 (January 15): The Nigerian army staged its first coup.


1966 (May 29): Massive rioting starts in the major towns of Northern Nigeria against the Igbo minority in the north and nearly 30,000 died.


1966 (August 1): Lt. Col Yakubu Gowon announces a take-over of the government to the nation1963: Nigeria proclaimed Republic. Nnamdi Azikiwe becomes its first President.

1967 (January 4): Nigeria's military leaders travel to Aburi near Acrra, Ghana to find a solution problems facing the country.


1967 (May 30): Eastern leadership announces Republic of Biafra


1967 (July 6): First shots are fired that formally start of about thirty months of the Biafran war.

1851 (December 26-27): Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos. Oba of Lagos (Oba Kosoko) is wounded and flees to Epe. On board the ship was Lt. Labulo Davies, probably the first Nigerian to be commisioned in a naval force.


1862 (January 1): Lagos Island is annexed as a colony of Britain


1862 (January 22): Mr H.S Freeman is appointed as the first Governor of Lagos Colony.


1877: George Taubman Goldie arrived in the Niger Delta in 1877.

1885: Oil Rivers Protectorate proclaimed by the British after they had defeated of King Jaja of Opobo, the Oba of Benin and subdued all prominent oil merchants of the Niger Delta.


1892 (19 May): At the Battle of the (sacred) Yemoja River the British wreaks havoc amongst the Ijebu infantry with a British Maxim (capable of firing 2000 rounds in three minutes).


1893: Oil Rivers Protectorate renamed Niger Coast Protectorate with its capital at Calabar.


1890's: British Journalist Flora Shaw, later wife of Lord Frederick Lugard, suggests the name "Nigeria" after the great Niger River.


1897: The British overthrow Oba Ovonramwen of Benin. One of the last independent West African kings.


1900: Niger Coast Protectorate was merged with the colony and protectorate of Lagos and renamed Protectorate of Southern Nigeria

1914: Formation of Nigeria under Governor Frederick Lugard


1929 (October): (Aba Women's Riot). Women in Aba demonstrate against high taxes and low prices of Nigerian exports.


1954: The position of Governor was created in each region after the Federal System of Government is adopted.


1958: Nigerian Armed Forces came under Federal control. The Nigerian Navy is created.


1959: The new Nigerian currency is introduced

1959: Northern Peoples Congress(NPC)and Niger Delta Congress(NDC) go into alliance to contest parliamentary elections. The alliance earned the Brass Division a seat in the Federal Parliament for the first time.


1960(July): Sir Adesoji Aderemi becomes 1st Nigerian and 1st African to be appointed Governor in the Commonwealth. He became Governor before Nigeria got independence.

1960 (October 1): Nigeria's Independence Day: Nnamdi Azikiwe ("Zik") becomes 1st indigenous Governor General. At independence, the Nigerian government consisted of three ethnic states united in a federation. Each state was controlled by a single dominant ethnic-based party.
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