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Timoleon:
o ti funny ju....the 'truthest' truth though!

Sorry but i dont speak german

Bookmarked

PureWays:
Add Match 28 that sinks the boat of a corrupt era.

Nice one.... Tough time never last.

Diff BTW march and match u no sabi
Na to abuse your leader u sabi

richidinho:
Diff BTW march and match u no sabi
Na to abuse your leader u sabi

lwkmd

what about 1847; when the Europeans (Portugese) first visited Africa (the Benin kingdom,present day Benin City)?

richidinho:
Diff BTW march and match u no sabi
Na to abuse your leader u sabi

Lol... Typo error my friend

"-1998 (April): All five legal political parties adopt
General Sani Abacha as their candidate for
August 1 presidential elections."

This part got me laughing.... Like seriously? But wait who wan die?

zigger:
Sorry but i dont speak german

thouught so too...still funny though!

kingphilip:
All information were gotten from http://www.ngex.com/nigeria/keyevents/default.htm

Sir Adesoji Aderemi is my Grandfather. Soko Omolambua Ife akoda

PureWays:
Lol... Typo error my friend

I know.......but if its GEJ u won't take it easy with him

OP ,
Does history end in 2000?

hi

barcanista:
The Death of Abacha was a good riddance

it shocked me too when I saw they all endorsed I was like no b today all this things even start self

GenBuhari:
OP ,
Does history end in 2000?

u can extend urs to cover till 2020 I'm sure the mods will honor it with a front page

phantonce:
-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.


Elections are won by alliances and not by bragging.

u r right boss

DeCritique:
Owl City - When can I see you again?


Owl City - On The Wing


Download them both and get back to me

I love owl city too, I have the above songs tho

Great compilation and informative.

lordmario:
"-1998 (April): All five legal political parties adopt
General Sani Abacha as their candidate for
August 1 presidential elections."

This part got me laughing.... Like seriously? But wait who wan die?

no one my bro.

I have a problem with people who doctor history to suit their aim,please tell the people what happen on
1966 (January 15): The Nigerian army staged its first
coup. you explained other coups but the very first coup you didn't give detail,please find the details and put it up

kingphilip:
1960-1969

-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.

-1963: Nigeria proclaimed Republic. Nnamdi Azikiwe becomes its first President.

-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 (July 29): A group of Northern officers and men storm the Government house Ibadan where General Aguiyi Ironsi was staying with his host, Lt. Col Adekunle Fajuyi. The men are arested and killed.

-1966 (August 1): Lt. Col Yakubu Gowon announces a take-over of the government to the nation

-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.

once again you are hiding what people should know,please tell the people who killed murtala
-1976 (February 13): Murtala Mohammed was gunned down, in an abortive coup attempt, on his way to work from his residence.

kingphilip:
1970-1979

-1970-1979: Military rulers like Gowon (1967-1975), Murtala Muhamed and Olusegun Obasanjo ran Nigeria and altered the constitution again, creating 19 federal states.

-1970 (January 15): The Biafran War came to an end, leaving nearly two million people dead.

-1971 (April 2): Nigeria changed from driving on the right hand side of the road to the left.

-1973 (May): Government establishes the National Youth Service Corps Scheme and introduces compulsory one year service for all graduates of Nigerian universities.

-1974: General Gowon reneged on a promise to restore*civilian rule in 1976.

-1974: Gowon announces indefinite delay in transition plan.

-1975 (October): Gowon was overthrown in a coup, on the anniversary of his ninth year in office, by General Murtala Mohammed. Murtala rolls out transition plan to civil rule due to terminate in 1979.

-1976 (February 13): Murtala Mohammed was gunned down, in an abortive coup attempt, on his way to work from his residence.

-1976 (February 14): General Murtala Mohammed was succeeded by General Olusegun Obasanjo. Oya sango pledges to keep to Murtala's transition agenda.

-1976 (September 2): The Universal Primary Education Scheme (UPE) is introduced. This was to make education free and compulsory in the country.

-1978: Ban on political parties was lifted

-1979 (October 1): General Obasanjo handed over to Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Shagari (Excutive President of Nigeria). Five parties competed for the presidency, and Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) won.

-1979 (October 1) -1983 (December 31): Second Republic of Nigeria under Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN).

richidinho:
I know.......but if its GEJ u won't take it easy with him

Nah.. I'm not like that oh!

onoja12:
once again you are hiding what people should know,please tell the people who killed murtala
-1976 (February 13): Murtala Mohammed was gunned down, in an abortive coup attempt, on his way to work from his residence.

u can help us state it please

onoja12:
I have a problem with people who doctor history to suit their aim,please tell the people what happen on
1966 (January 15): The Nigerian army staged its first
coup. you explained other coups but the very first coup you didn't give detail,please find the details and put it up

from where this was gotten it wasn't stated in full

Please if u have details u can help us with it with the source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat


The 1966 Nigerian Coup d'état began on January 15, 1966 when rebel Southern Nigerian soldiers led by Kaduna Nzeogwu assassinated 11 senior Nigerian politicians and two soldiers as well as kidnapping three others. The coup plotters attacked the cities of Kaduna, Ibadan, and Lagos while also blockading the Niger and Benue River within a two day span of time. Before the coup plotters were subdued. A senior Army officer, General Aguyi Ironsi then used the coup as a pretext to annex power ending Nigeria's first Republic. It was the spark that erupted into the Nigerian Civil War.

Contents [hide]
1 Background
2 Coup
3 Aftermath
4 Officers involved
4.1 Conspirators
4.2 Government officials
5 References
Background[edit]
In August 1965 one Yoruba and four Igbo Majors were beginning to plot a coup against incumbent Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa. The coup was planned because the Majors were dissatisfied with the governments actions and that most Nigerian politicians were of Northern Nigerian origin.[citation needed]

Coup[edit]
In the weeks leading up to the coup Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu carried out reconnaissance on Ahmadu Bello's mansion in Kaduna. Nzeogwu often took his men on a night-time training exercise known as "Exercise Damisa" which was in actuality a practice run for a military coup. The commander of the 2nd Brigade, Brig. Samuel Ademulegun, became irritated with the night-time exercises and reprimanded Nzeogwu in a telephone call to keep exercises a safe distance from Bello's mansion. Although Ademulegun complained about the commotion he had no idea of the exercise's true purpose. Nzeogwu's control over his troops was so little that he had to conscript young soldiers from the Nigerian Military Training College at Kaduna. In the early hours on January 15, 1966 Nzeogwu decided to turn "Exercise Damisa" into a full blown military coup. Nzeogwu led his men to a bush adjacent to the mansion gates and informed them of their real mission. Nzeogwu then led his men, blowing open the mansion gates and conducted a search of the residence, hunting for Bello. After losing his temper at his initial failure to locate Bello. Bello gave himself up at his gates, where he was shot. Nzeogwu's co-conspirator, Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu, personally led a detachment of soldiers to Ademulegun's house. Onwuatuegwu made his way up to the Brigadier's room where he was laying beside his wife. Upon seeing Onwuatuegwu enter the room, Ademulegun shouted at him "Timothy, what the devil do you think your doing?". Onwuatuegwu told Ademulegun that he was under arrest. Ademulegun reached for a drawer beside his bed, and as he did so, Onwuatuegwu shot him dead in his bed, along with Ademulegun's wife who was laying beside him.

The head of the NMTC Col. Ralph Shodeinde was killed, however the manner of his death is unclear. His wife testified that he was shot by several soldiers that included Maj. Nzeogwu and Maj. Onwuatuegwu. Other accounts claim that a grenade was tossed at him. It is not clear if Nzeogwu was involved with Shodeinde's death since presumably he was pre-occupied at the time with killing Ahmadu Bello. Most accounts place responsibility for Shodeinde's murder with Onwuatuegwu. The same Onwuatuegwu, who shot both Shodeinde and Ademulegun along with his wife, kidnapped but did not harm the Governor of the Northern Region Kashim Ibrahim. When released Ibrahim vouched that he had been treated with the utmost respect by the men who kidnapped him.

The commander of the 2nd Reece squadron in Kaduna, Hassan Katsina, was not harmed during the coup. Shortly before the coup started, Katsina bumped into Nzeogwu. It is speculated that the conversation between the two men may have saved Katsina's life as Nzeogwu's familiarity with Katsina's family may have led him to exclude Katsina from the coup out of empathy. When the two men met again shortly after the coup, Nzeogwu asked him directly "Are you with us or against us?". Seeing that Nzeogwu was holding a gun, Katsina wisely replied "you know I am with you."

At around 2am Maj. Emmanuel Ifeajuna and some lieutenants from the 2nd Brigade HQ made their way to Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa's residence. They overpowered, but did not kill, the police officers standing guard there. Ifeajuna then kicked down the door of the Prime Minister's bedroom before leading him out at gunpoint. Elsewhere in Lagos, Maj. Don Okafor attempted to arrest Brig. Zakariya Maimalari but he managed to escape by jumping over a wall behind his house. As he was escaping on foot, he came across the car of his Brigade Major, Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Maimalari recognized Ifeajuna and had no idea that he was part of the coup plot. Erroneously believing that Ifeajuna could be trusted, Maimalari waved down the car, and was promptly shot by Ifeajuna. The commanding officer of the Ibadan based 4th battalion, Lt. Col. Abogo Largema, was a guest at the Ikoyi hotel on the night of the coup. Ifeajuna arrived at the hotel and forced the desk clerk at gunpoint to inform Largema that he had a phone call. When Largema emerged from his room Ifeajuna and a subaltern emerged from their hiding place in a corridor and shot Largema dead. The army's GOC Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi was tipped off about the coup by a telephone call from Lt. Col. James Pam. Shortly after ending his telephone call with Ironsi, Pam was abducted from his house and shot dead by Maj. Chris Anuforo. The only Igbo to die in the coup, Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe, was shot by Anuforo because he was known to be close to Brig. Maimalari and had to be silenced in order to avoid him from raising the alarm. Balewa, Col. Kur Mohammed, and Minister of Finance Festus Okotie-Eboh were initially kidnapped, but were later killed.

In Ibadan the premier of the Western Region Chief Samuel Akintola had been forewarned that soldiers were coming to get him. Akintola heard rumors of a coup and traveled to Kaduna to warn the premier of the Northern Region, Ahmadu Bello. After failing to raise any urgency in Bello, Akintola returned to Ibadan and armed himself with a rifle. His deputy Chief Fani Kayode was first arrested by the coupists. After his arrest, Kayode's wife informed Akintola of what had happened. Shortly afterward a detachment of soldiers led by Capt. Emmanuel Nwobosi arrived at Akintola's residence. Upon sighting the soldiers, Akintola opened fire, wounding a few of them including Capt. Nwobosi. After fighting for his life and engaging the soldiers in a gunfight, Akintola was shot dead by Nwobosi's men.

Aftermath[edit]
Maj Gen. Ironsi rallied the bulk of the army and managed to put down the coup. All of the coup leaders, except for Maj. Ifeajuna who had fled to Ghana, were placed under arrest. Maj. Nzeogwu handed over control of the Northern Region to Ironsi's appointed designee, Maj. Hassan Katsina, before being escorted by Lt Col. Conrad Nwawo to Lagos where he surrendered to Maj Gen. Ironsi. General Ironsi used the coup as a pretext to suspend the Federal Government and bring an end to Nigeria's first republic.

Officers involved[edit]
The list below shows the officers involved on both sides of the coup as well as their ethnic backgrounds.

Conspirators[edit]
Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu (Igbo)
Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu (Igbo)
Maj. Emmanuel Ifeajuna (Igbo)
Maj. Chris Anuforo (Igbo)
Maj. Don Okafor (Igbo)
Maj. Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba)
Maj. Humphrey Chukwuka (Igbo)
Capt. Emmanuel Nwobosi (Igbo)
Capt. Ben Gbulie (Igbo)
Capt. Ogbu Oji (Igbo)

kingphilip:
from where this was gotten it wasn't stated in full

Please if u have details u can help us with it with the source

The op of this post and the imbecilee above me are two idiiots. If you read through the thrash you'll find that its history botched up... everything is wrong and incorrect. idiiots don't derail the mind of the contemporary nigerian youth.