Once the Second World War was finished, the pilgrim organization chose to build up Nigerian Port Authority and this assignment was expelled from the Navy. Nigerians, who were in the naval force around then kept on pushing for the foundation of Nigerian Navy. The primary officer to head the N...
Journal of Genocide ResearchBird, S. Elizabeth & Fraser Ottanelli. 2014. "The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history." Journal of Genocide Research 16(2/3):379-399.Bird, S., & Ottanelli, F. 2014. `The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: Reclaiming...
Leader of the conservative National Party of Nigeria, he also had the support of the Nigerian People's Party (NPP), led by former president Azikiwe. The NPP withdrew its support in 1981, leaving Shagari at the head of a minority government. In August 1983, Shagari won reelection to a ...
History of Nigeria’s Economy: From Colonialism to the Present The history of Nigeria’s economy is complex, largely because of the country’s colonial era and the gradual transition out of… Nigerian Civil War Operation Unicord: The Battle and Capture of Nsukka in July 1967 ...
January 15, 2024 was the 54thanniversary of the end ofthe Nigerian civil war, and the end of the short lived secessionist Republic of Biafra which seceded from Nigeria’s south-east region. After Nigeria suppressed Biafra’s secession in 1970, Nigeria’s victory in the war, and maintenance ...
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The market building, one of the largest in Nigeria, was destroyed in 1968 in the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70), but it was rebuilt. The town is the site of the Roman Catholic Holy Trinity Cathedral (1935) and the Anglican All Saints Cathedral (1952). Its oldest secondary schools, ...
Odumegwu OjukwuLieut. Col. (later Gen.) Odumegwu Ojukwu, pictured here c. 1966, led the secessionist state of Biafra from its declaration of independence in 1967 through its surrender in 1970, which ended the Nigerian Civil War. Gowon’s attempt to hold a conference to settle theconstitutional...
The son of a country whose history had been written by outsiders, Chinua Achebe recognised the need for African literature with a Nigerian voice. Nigeria: Two Imperialist and Their Creation The largest of African republics possesses an ancient and composite civilization, but the form that the count...
1929 (October): Women in the eastern commercial city of Aba held a rowdy but effective and victorious protest against high taxes and low prices of Nigerian exports. 1951: The British decided to grant Nigeria internal self-rule, following an agitation led by the NCNC, Dr Azikiwe’s political ...