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Have you ever imagined how the map of Nigeria would look like if the former British Southern Cameroon is still part of Nigeria? Given the opportunity to decide their fate though a plebiscite, the British Southern Cameroon opted for Cameroon, while the British Northern Cameroon stuck with Nigeria. Nigeria This Week In History analyses the event that led to the plebiscite.

The “Scramble for Africa” at the end of the 19th century saw to Germany claiming the present day Cameroon as a protectorate.

However, that did not last beyond 1919. After Germany lost the battle of World War 1, its former colony, Cameroon, was given to France and British through the League of Nations Mandate.

The French mandate was known as Cameroon and the British mandate was administered as two areas; Northern Cameroon and southern Cameroon. With the defunct of the League of Nations after the World War II, the British Cameroon came under the United Nations Trusteeship.

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For ease of administration, the British Southern Cameroon was integrated into the Nigeria Eastern Region. This caused a lot of discontent on the side of the Southern Cameroonians as they felt marginalised by the Eastern Region of Nigeria which they complained made them look more of a colony to the Nigeria government than a mandate.

To redress the above complain by the Southern Cameroon, a conference was held in Ibadan in 1950 and this gave birth to a new constitution for Nigeria and the Southern Cameroon in July 1951.

As a result of the new constitution, the British Southern Cameroons was able to conduct the first Parliamentary Elections in the territory. The election brought the first Southern Cameroonian representatives in the Eastern House of Assembly in Enugu, Nigeria, and in the Federal House of Assembly in Lagos, Nigeria.

This did not however put an end to the complain of the British Southern Cameroon about the oppression of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. This led the British Southern Cameroonian representatives in the Eastern House of Assembly in Enugu to declare “benevolent neutrality” and walked out of the House in 1954.

Apparently for permanent solution, the British government at the London conference of 1954 agreed that the British Southern Cameroon should separate from the Eastern Region and enjoy autonomous self governance within the Nigeria federation.

This led to the creation of Southern Cameroonian parliament in 1954 with Dr. E.M.L. Endeley becoming its first premier.

However, with the French Cameroon becoming independent in January 1960 and that of Nigeria in the offing, the question of what to do with British territory of British Cameroons was raised.

Having ruled out independence for the British Southern and Northern Cameroons, a plebiscite was agreed to be held on either to join Nigeria or the French Cameroon. And it was held on 11 February, 1961.

Northern Cameroon, which is of Muslim majority voted to be integrated into Nigeria with 60% to 40%, while the Southern Cameroon which is of Christian majority voted to be integrated into Cameroon with 70.5% to 29.5%.

Northern Cameroon became a region of Nigeria on 31 May, 1961, while Southern Cameroon became part of Cameroon on 1 October, 1961.

Areas that were once part of Northern Cameroon include: Dikwa in Maiduguri, Gwozo in Borno state and Jalingo in Taraba.

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I want to believe if Aguyi-Irosi had convicted them and sentence them to death instead of keeping them in prison, the outcome (Nigeria history) would had been different.

laudate:
May the souls of the departed, continue rest in peace. Amen! That coup was one of the worst things to happen in this nation. It set in motion a chain of events, that ended in a war, which led to the deaths of many, but ended up achieving nothing.

You are absolutely right bro. That coup indeed determined Nigeria's history. From then on, things have never been the same up till now. It created the ethnic distrust we are witnessing now

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When AceGist, on 8 January, 2017, in one of its in dept objective analyses advised the governor of Benue State, Samuel Orton, to brace up to the security challenge in his state, some accused us of promoting anarchy.

The article reads in part:

Although, the buck of national security stops at the desk of the president. But since the federal might is not coming as forceful as in the case of the boko haram, one would have thought the Benue state government would think outside the box, not in resolving the issue anymore (as it is obvious that the grazing bill is not doing much), but in securing the lives of her citizens.

Desperate time, they say, demands desperate measure. acegist.com remembers gov. Wike accusing his Benue counterpart of not doing enough to secure the lives of his citizens.

Internally arranged securities can be organised and beefed up at the flashpoint areas of the state, especially since the concerned areas are relatively isolated, not like the case of boko haram.

For detail: http://acegist.com/reflection-benue-killings-59-victims-get-mass-burial/

Well, as if the article was directed to the governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, for just two days after the article was published, he did what AceGist expected of Ortom.

Governor Fayose did not just do the needful, he also seized the opportunity to lend his voice in calling on Governor Ortom to act. He said, “Governor Samuel Ortom should fasten his belt and protect his people. Those seeking for help in Abuja would not find because Abuja also needs help.”

Howbeit, that would still not ruffle the sleeping Orton, and an APC appointee under president Muhammudu Buhari,
Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), also have to add his harsh voice.

Prof. Sagay said. “The point I always make and I make it again is that the greatest failure and the person who should take all the blame for what is happening is the state governor, Samuel Ortom. Ortom is the chief security officer of Benue. Every time the killings happen, he breaks down in tears and puts his hands on his head and keeps blaming the federal government.”

“Under criminal law, every Nigerian has a right of self-defence. There is no reason why Ortom shouldn’t have organised the people of Benue state into a state of collective self-defence in which he will totally arm them to face these murderers.”

That’s it! If after all these wake up call, the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, is still sleeping, then what will it take to wake him up?

http://acegist.com/will-wake-gov-ortom/

zendy:
You have to learn to look at the two side of the story instead of the one side the Lagos/Ibadan expressway media likes to dish out.

You said the war was not necessary? So why did Nigeria declare war and come to the East to fight? Why did Nigeria led by Gowon not keep the Aburi agreement signed in Ghana to prevent war? Why did Nigeria not agree to the UN monitored referendum proposed by Ojukwu?

The truth is that Nigeria caused the civil war, but people who dont know Nigerian history think it was caused by Ojukwu. Ojukwu did over and above what he should have done to prevent war. But the one thing Ojukwu was not prepared to do was to submit his people to Hausa/Fulani slavery so as to avoid war and thats why he declared the independence of his people as Biafra.



Ojukwu was a great man who led his people in a war of independence to free them from the colonial shackel of Hausa-Fulani dominated Nigeria. Thats why Ojukwus people love him in death. We may have lost millions of souls in the fight but there is nothing more noble in this life than for one to fight for freedom, no matter what. Ojukwu may not have suceeded but the fact that he rose up and fought back when all others were lining up to lick 'Northern a$$' to avoid war , is commendable. He fought, he lost, but no shame. It is s great and determined people who fight for their freedom against a much greater opponent. Only a fool will expect Ojukwu to stay back and be used for target practice by the Nigerian Soldiers when the war was virtually over. If Ojukwu had ran away in the middle of the war, then you can call him coward. But he stayed to the end and left. Ojukwu would have been very foolish to stay back to be slaughtered when he had a way of escaping.


Ojukwu did not cause the civil war, Yskubu Gowon and his fellow Northerners did.

First, your first quote was my personal opinion. And that was derived when you commensurate cost of the war to its cause.

In your second quote, the article did not say Ojukwu caused the war, it says, Ojukwu determined the start of the war.

Let's learn to read with open mind

Truth be told, that war was not necessary. I still maintain somebody dragged a whole ethnic group into a war that claimed millions of his own people's life because of personal grudges, yet, he didn't wait to die with the war as a true hero

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[quote author=SnowJay92 post=63962022]Same for smuggled, contraband and restricted goods right? Too many steps in the wrong direction for obvious reasons.[/quote

well, on the negative side, yes

SnowJay92:
Hauling containers all the way from Lagos to Kaduna, what is the difference between this and the already existing arrangement? How about developing the other sea ports, inland waterways and river ports? Why are we hellbent on putting carts before horses in this country just because of ethnic chauvinism?

I think the major different is just the custom and other relevant agencies clearance. This will make the containers prepared for export (if it's going out) from the dry port; thereby freeing space at the sea port. Same goes for import.

kay9:
I'm sorry but i disagree with the bolded. Yes, an inland dry port is a wonderful idea, but there is a SIMPLER, CHEAPER, and more ECONOMY-BOOSTING alternative: ensure the funds allocated for dredging the Niger is utilised as budgeted; improve security in the waterways; and then get the inter-country rail systems working!

The rails will grossly cut down transport costs of goods down to Lokoja/Onitsha, from where they can be ferried; while a functional cargo transport river-network via the Niger to the port (Calabar preferably, it already has a free trade zone!) will cost even less. I'm not even going to mention the boost this will bring to the Transport sub-sector as whole, the huge load it will take off our current reliance on road transport...

All this is not rocket science, we simply lack leaders who have to willpower and zeal to get the system working again. They'll rather jump to a new "fantastic" project that will suddenly make all the problems disappear. Well we all know how that always works out.

As much as I agree with you on dredging and creating more sea port, which personally, I still have beef with Jonathan on, I still mentain that the northern part, especially from Kaduna which is mostly landlocked sure needs an inland dry port.

Remember that it's with dry port that transportation system, especially the rail, will be boosted more. Better transport system will have to be provided for the transportation of intermodal containers.

That is to talk less of the safety, fast and ease of doing business

kay9:
Onne port in Rivers State is under-used and neglected.

Calabar port and its free-trade zone (FTZ) in Cross River State is lying fallow.

Millions are allocated for dredging the Niger from Forcados/Escravos through Onitsha up to Lokoja every year, even though the Onitsha port in Anambra State has been lying decrepit since the 70's and totally forgotten for decades. And don't even bother to ask the dredging is actually done..

Yet... yet here we are talking of "inland dry ports".

Love your analyses. It's unfortunate how projects are being handled in this country. We miss Yaradua on that. That however does not rule out the fact that the north, especially, needs inland dry port to ease import/export business

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