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Europeans undertook exploration, trade and mission activities along the west coast of Africa in the 15th century. The Portuguese were the first to do so, building trade with the Kingdom of Benin, Lagos and other areas along the coast.

The Portuguese domination of these trade routes was dominated in the 16th century by the British, the French and the Dutch, with the slave trade becoming very important. The slaves were taken from Nigeria to work in the plantations of the Americas.

During this period, the territorial landscape known today as Nigeria has lost a large number of people in the slave trade. Some estimate that more than 3.5 million slaves were sent from Nigeria to the Americas.

The British governed the slave trade off the Nigerian coast in the 18th century. But with the rise of the industrial revolution in Britain in the nineteenth century, the focus on trade shifted from “slaves” to “raw materials” for factories.

Most of these raw materials needed in new industries were important in African soils, which fueled the European desire to invade African soil. In the 19th century, Britain began to penetrate into Nigeria, encountering much resistance from indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples could not compete with the superior firearms of Britain.


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Do you know who was Nigeria’s first prime minister? The government of Nigeria was led by prime ministers between 1960 and 1966 (the first republic). The office of the president was rather a ceremonial office. All the executive power lied to the Prime Minister. Learn more about one of the most important men in Nigeria’s political history.

Who was Nigeria’s first prime minister?

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first prime minister of Nigeria. He was made the prime minister in 1960 after Nigeria gained independence. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was the president, and Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the prime minister.

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The first lady in Nigeria to drive a car was Funmilayo Ransome Kuti. History perceives her as the first female Nigerian political activist. She is likewise viewed as "The Mother of Africa". She was an exceptionally powerful politician who pushed for women rights in Nigeria. The West African Pilot depicted this lady as the "Lioness of Lisabi". She is the mother of Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Beco Ransome Kuti. She is likewise the grandma of Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti.

Her full name is Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas, she was conceived on October 25, 1900, to Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosulu and Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas; the place where she grew up is Abeokuta.

Abeokuta Grammar School was the first instructive organization where this intense women began her training; she was so keen and skilled that she chose to finish her training in England. In any case, she likewise needed to come back to her nation and give information to her kin, that is the reason she turned into an educator. She was hitched to Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti. They progressed toward becoming a couple in 1925. She later turned into the pioneer of the Nigerian Union of Students and joined the Nigerian Union of Teachers.

She got the Order of Nigeria in 1965 and a doctorate in law in 1968. She was additionally a delegate of the Western House of Chiefs in Nigeria.


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On day like this, precisely 57 years back, Nigeria was on a bubbly and noteworthy state of mind. It was the eve of October 1, 1960, the day that the United Kingdom had put aside to concede Nigeria independence as a sovereign state.

The political and social climate was astir. The reasons were not unrealistic given the fantasies of the establishing fathers – late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, late Sir Ahmadu Bello and late Chief Obafemi Awolowo among others and also what the possibilities of self-lead forecasted for the developing dark country.

Independence parties were not restricted to the then capital city of Lagos in Western Region. Different parts or areas of the nation additionally sorted out events to introduce independence, however that of Lagos was the greatest. At that point, just not very many Nigerians had Television sets. In this way, to be a piece of the festivals, numerous individuals set out toward the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos and the provincial capitals. The festival at the TBS commenced with the establishment setting discourse of the main Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, in which he communicated his satisfaction and joy for the recently freed country and her kin.

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The Igbo people formerly also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; are an ethnic group native to the present-day south-central and southeastern Nigeria. Geographically, the Igbo homeland is divided into two unequal parts by the Niger River – an eastern (which is the larger of the two) and a western section. The Igbo people are one of the biggest ethnic groups in Africa.

The Igbo language is divided into many regional dialects, and somewhat commonly intelligible with the larger “Igboid” cluster. The Igbo homeland straddles the lower Niger River, east and south of the Edoid and Idomoid groups, and west of the Ibibioid (Cross River) group.

In rural Nigeria, Igbo people work mostly as craftsmen, farmers, and traders. The most important crop is the yam. Other staple crops include cassava and taro. The Igbos are also highly urbanized, with some of the most significant modern areas, cities, and towns in Igboland.

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The history of Christianity in Nigeria can be traced back to the 15th century during the time the Portuguese were the first Europeans to visit the shores of the province via the Atlantic. The Portuguese brought Christianity with them but were unable to successfully plant Christianity because of their involvement in the slave trade. It can be disputed that the actual intent behind their voyage was more in the interest of the slave trade than it was for missionary goals and objectives. Most of the Portuguese slave traders took Nigerian slaves to be resold in the Americas and parts of Europe. Hence, they were not committed to missionary work.

In the 17th century, trials were again made to establish Christianity in the region through Roman Catholic missionaries. Just like the Portuguese, the Roman Catholic evangelists also arrived as traders. They traveled into the hinterlands to make the trade with locals and preach to them and even visited the cities of Benin and Warri. However, many of the kings and legendary rulers took more interest in the guns and mirrored the Europeans had brought with them to do trade, and barely showed an interest in the new religion being introduced to them.

After the destruction of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1833, things took a fantastic turn. Slaves captured by European masters were released and

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Ògèdèngbé is one of the most important men in the history of the Yorùbá. Ògèdèngbé was the Ìjẹ̀ṣà warrior who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Èkìtì-Parapọ̀ Army. His name at birth was Ọ̀rìṣàráyíbí Ògúnmọ́lá. He was born at Ijọka but taken to Atorin, near Iléṣà in Osun State in 1822 after he was named. He earned the name Ògèdèngbé for his dexterity in wrestling and fearlessness.

Agbógungbórò was added when his war credentials soared. Growing up, Ògèdèngbé exemplifed valor, courage and industry. He was tall, intimidating, with piercing eyes. He grew up at a time of great unrest between Yoruba sub-ethnicities. In his youth, he was reckless, commanding and charismatic. Ògèdèngbé was involved in several campaigns against the Ìbàdàn who often attacked the Ìjẹ̀ṣà. In one of such during Ìgbájọ war in 1867 Ògèdèngbé was captured. It was said that, at Ìgbájọ, a young Ìbàdàn soldier severed his head, Ògèdèngbé staggered back and picked up his head, fixed it back. This terrified the Ibadan.

Baṣọ̀run Ògúnmọ́lá captured him and took him to Ìbàdàn, where he fought for Ìbàdàn army and rose to the position of senior military commander. To make the ridicule complete he was given Ìbàdàn tribal marks. The Ìbàdàn thought someone might take him for an Ìbàdàn man and kill him in battle.

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Participants
• Capt. Emmanuel Nwobosi (Igbo)
• Capt. G. Adeleke (Yoruba)
• Lt. Fola Oyewole (Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”
• Lt. R. Egbiko (Esan)
• Lt. PM Okocha (Igbo)
• Lt. Tijani Katsina(Hausa/Fulani)
• Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Yoruba)
• Capt. Gibson Jalo (Bali)
• Capt. Swanton (Middle Belt)
• Lt. Dag Warribor (Ijaw)
• 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Hausa)
• 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Tiv)
• Capt. Ben Gbulie (Igbo)
• Lt. Dimka

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Acting President Nwafor Orizu made a nationwide broadcast after he had briefed President Nnamdi Azikiwe on the phone about the decision of the cabinet, announcing the cabinet’s “voluntary” decision to transfer power to the armed forces. Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi then made his broadcast, accepting the “invitation.” On January 17, Major General Ironsi established the Supreme Military Council in Lagos and effectively suspended the constitution.
Officers involved
• Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu (Igbo)
• Maj. Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”
• Maj. Emmanuel Ifeajuna (Igbo)
• Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu (Igbo)
• Maj. Chris Anuforo (Igbo)
• Maj. Humphrey Chukwuka (Igbo)
• Maj. Don Okafor (Igbo)
• Capt. Ogbo Oji (Igbo)

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When British Reverend, Henry Townsend came to Abeokuta via Agbadarigi (now Badagry) route from England in 1842, he was received by an Egba warrior, Chief Sodeke, there was nobody to interprete English Language to Yoruba language for the Egbas except a Teacher, Catechist and Evangelist, Andrew Desalu Wilhelm who had been educated by the British.

Andrew Desalu Wilhelm was an Egba man who was captured with many others as slaves by British Colonial masters. He was later freed but re-settled in Sierra Leone. Desalu was an evangelist and catechist who preached the Christianity gospel across the dusty streets of the Egba ancient city.

It was reported that he was born in 1820 but died in 1866. He was rally point for all freed slaves who came to Abeokuta as he built missionary quarter named as Wasinmi (Come and rest) in Ake, Abeokuta. They all lived in the quarter which gave the area the name till today, WA SIN MI…WASINMI!

Henry Townsend returned to England for Church ordination, Andrew Desalu Wilhelm stayed and served as a catechist and Evangelist till 1846 when Townsend came back.

Andrew Desalu erected a shed for Christian worship and church service at Ake, the foundation of the present Cathedral of church of Saint Peter, Ake was also laid by him in 1846, four years after he started the Gospel. The church was completed after his death, 52 years after the foundation had been laid, exactly on 6th of September, 1898.

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Acting President Nwafor Orizu made a nationwide broadcast after he had briefed President Nnamdi Azikiwe on the phone about the decision of the cabinet, announcing the cabinet’s “voluntary” decision to transfer power to the armed forces. Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi then made his broadcast, accepting the “invitation.” On January 17, Major General Ironsi established the Supreme Military Council in Lagos and effectively suspended the constitution.
Officers involved
• Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu (Igbo)
• Maj. Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”
• Maj. Emmanuel Ifeajuna (Igbo)
• Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu (Igbo)
• Maj. Chris Anuforo (Igbo)
• Maj. Humphrey Chukwuka (Igbo)
• Maj. Don Okafor (Igbo)
• Capt. Ogbo Oji (Igbo)

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it happens like that

capatainrambo:
and op who 're you ?



we should just swallow your write up jyst like that?

The “Aba Women Riot in 1929” is one of the unfortunate events that took place in the Eastern part of Nigeria; thereby leading so many incidents that pivoted civilization in Nigeria as a nation. This incident happened to be one of the earliest revolts made in quest of emancipation from the hands of colonial administrators and warrant Chiefs led by Sir Fredrick Luggard.

Here are the recent findings:-

• The Colonial master never attempted to tax the women, if they did there is no record of it anywhere.
• Chief Okeugo never asked the women to pay tax, like it is speculated in most write-ups and that was why he was later discharged and acquitted and even paid 800 pounds as compensation.
• Mark Emeruwa the court Clerk that went to Nwanyiriuwa’s house never asked her to pay tax for her goats and chickens, rather he demanded to see her husband during the time of the incident.
• Aba woman riot never started in Opobo (Ikot-Abasi), rather it ended there because of the number, of 53 people killed there.
• Margaret Ekpo never took part in the 1929 Women uprising, she was born in 1914 and was only 15 years as at 1929, she was a standard 4 student of Girls Institute, Greek Town during the riot.
• Nwanyiriuwa was not an old widow as at 1929, the husband Mr Ojim was still alive.
• The riot started in Umungboro, Oloko in what is today Abia state.
• The rumour that women and domestic animals were to be taxed was the making of warrant chiefs who wanted to cheat their subjects, it was speculated to have been first announced officially by Chief Ananamba of Umuala Oloko.


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are you really sure about that?

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Gowon directly caused the war by going back on the Aburi agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Ghana.

Here are the rundown of them...

-Biafra represented the nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people, whose leaders felt that they could no longer coexist with the northern-dominated federal government.
-The war came, therefore, the culmination of the peace and stability that was uncomfortable in preoccupation with the independence of Nigeria in 1960. This position has its origin in geography, history, culture, and demography of Nigeria.

-The immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup led by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu that led to the deaths of prominent Northern masters such as Tafawa Belewa, a counter-attack led by Yakubu Gowon, who led brutal murder of Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria’s first head of state, his deputy Fajuyi, etc. and the persecution of Igbo living in northern Nigeria.

-The former Eastern Region under Lieutenant Colonel Ojukwu saw the act of creating states by decree “without consultation,” as the straw that broke the camel’s back, and declared the region an Independent state of “Biafra,” but the federal government Lagos saw this as an act of secession and illegal.

-Several meetings were held to resolve the problem peacefully without success. As a result, the Nigerian government had no choice but to use force to recover the territory.

-The federal side expects a quick victory, but in late April 1969, after nearly two years of bloody and destructive war, the expected quick victory had evaded the federal side, the rebel enclave was greatly reduced in size, but Biafrans continued to hold.

-On January 10, 1970, the head of state of Lieutenant Colonel Ojukwu so-called Biafra, realizing the desperation of the situation fled the enclave with their immediate family surrender to the army, General Phillip Effiong.

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Twins killing in Nigeria was one of the sad occurrences that befell Nigerian back then before it was stopped. Mary Slessor was born on December 22, 1848, in Aberdeen, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. Her fatherhood was drunk, but her mother forced her to go to church from an early age. Mary gave her life to Jesus and developed a great interest in religion and joined a local missionary church, teaching the poor and the children to listen to the teaching of their Sunday School at 11 years old.  Mary Slessor was an enthusiastic worker in various missions and became a Scottish missionary in Calabar, Nigeria. She was pious and determined to do God's work and went to live among the Efik and Okoyong who lived near the Efiks in Calabar.

However, he learned to speak Efik, the dialect of the inhabitants of Calabar and spoke it fluently. He preached the Gospel in the village of Ekenga in Calabar and when he went to preach for the first time to Calabar. The crowd came out to listen to her, and she condemned her superstitious principle and barbaric murder of twins and eaten human flesh on earth. She brought a word of light to souls who were in darkness, love and kindness taught the villagers and the king loved his brave spirit and permitted him to live in the village.

Then Slessor went to preach the burning gospel of Christ and lived on native food. She sat in a mud house in the ground for the sake of the Gospel. She challenged the tradition of the people. And God used Mary Slessor to work miracles in the village. She heals the sick, prays for a dying leader, and the leader is healed. But the villagers called him a magician and a juju woman

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Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter (Sir Thomas Gilbert-Carter) KCMG (14 January 1848 – 18 January 1927) was an administrative officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial official for the British Empire. Starting as a Collector of Customs for the Gold Coast, he then became a Treasurer of the Gold Coast and the Gambia. Moving on to colonial administration, he started as the Administrator for the Gambia, where he dealt with the aggression of the native king of Gambia.

His next post was as Governor for the Lagos Colony where he negotiated treaties with the local chiefs which protected Christian missionaries and ending human sacrifices. He later served as the Governor for The Bahamas and Barbados and finally as the Governor for Trinidad and Tobago.

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Bless you,Sir

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Nnamdi Azikiwe was born on Nov. 16, 1904, of Ibo parents in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria, where his father served as a clerk in the Nigerian Regiment. His parents gave him the name Benjamin, but he later turned it to Nnamdi. He attended school in Onitsha, Lagos, and Calabar. In 1921, when he discontinued his secondary school education, he was flowing in the languages of the three major ethnic groups of Nigeria–the Hausas, the Ibos, and the Yorubas–a significant asset for the future Nigerian nationalist. Between 1921 and 1924 he served as a clerk in the Nigerian treasury in Lagos.

In 1925 Azikiwe went to the United States to study. He visited Storer College and then Howard and Lincoln universities. He received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Lincoln in 1931 and first degrees from Lincoln in 1932 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1933.

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