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"We are people of many different races, tribes and religions, who are knit together by common history, common interests and common ideals.

Our diversity may be great but the things that unite us are stronger than the things that divide us.
On an occasion like this, I always remind people about our firmly rooted policy on religious tolerance.

Families of all creeds and colour can rely on these assurances. We have no intention of favouring one religion at the expense of another. Subject to overriding need to preserve law and order, it is our determination that everyone should have absolute liberty to practice his beliefs.
It is befitting on this momentous day, on behalf of my ministers and myself, to send a special word of gratitude to all Christian missions.

Let me conclude this with a personal message;

I extend my greetings to all our people who are christians on this great feast day.

Let us forget the difference in our religion and remember the common brotherhood before God,by dedicating ourselves afresh to the great tasks which lie before us."

SIR AHMADU BELLO'S (Sardauna of Sokoto) CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 1959.

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Foreign reserve and debt

The Abacha administration became the first to record unprecedented economic achievements: an increase in the country’s foreign exchange reserves from $494 million in 1993 to $9.6 billion by the middle of 1997, reduced the external debt of Nigeria from $36 billion in 1993 to $27 billion by 1997.
No other administration before or after the inception of the Fourth Nigerian Republic had been able to achieve this.

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Contrary to many views that the Abacha administration was financially shrouded in secrecy, Abacha had mandated the PTF to publicise its accounts as it was the second largest public corporation at the time. In 1997, the account of PTF showed that it disbursed N24.3bn on roads, N21.2bn on security, N7.8bn on health, and N3bn on other projects. Other disbursements include N2.2bn on water supply, N936m on food supply and N476m on education. It realised a total of N1.049bn from various investment activities.

As a nation achieving it’s independence in 1960, we have identified certain major causes of the regressive nature of affairs in our beloved nation, the Federal Republic of Nigeria. These include a false & forced perception of a single unitary entity while the nation’s true nature as a multinational state is ignored in its policy making. This has proved to be a major cause of conflict and unrest that urgently needs to be addressed. http://ndpra.home.blog

As citizens of this great nation called the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we all have a responsibility to engage in constructive efforts for the overall betterment of our affairs in all facets of the society and what better way to begin this long positive journey than by creating awareness of the need to table the major issues which have plagued this nation for generations. We believe and are optimistic that no problem is indispensable when
all hands are on deck and when the various interests are fairly represented in good faith, respect and selflessness. We look forward to a new and prosperous era! http://ndpra.home.blog

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25th March 1995
The Petroleum Trust Fund under Decree 25.
The PTF was formed to undertake major economic issues which Nigeria was suffering from at the time. Between 25-100km of urban road in major cities such as Kano, Gusau, Benin, Funtua, Zaria, Enugu, Kaduna, Aba, Lagos, Lokoja, and Port Harcourt each. A N27.3bn contract was awarded for road rehabilitation in the first quarter of 1996.
PTF had undertaken a holistic stance to support the sum of N1.328bn that was awarded to 53 pharmaceutical companies for the supply of drugs, while the importation of vaccines cost N229.9m. As at December 31, 1997, funds available to PTF stood at N115.1bn.
They oversaw the restructuring of major insurance companies that supported SME’s across the entire country.

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10 November
Human and environmental rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged with eight others found guilty for allegedly masterminding the gruesome murder of Ogoni chiefs at a pro-government meeting
Transforming Nigeria’s economy
Petroleum Trust Fund [PTF]
During Abacha’s regime, he established

1992
Two political parties, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC) ware established by Babangida in an attempt to return to civilian rule.

1993
12 June
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola won a presidential election. Babangida annulled the results.
26 August
Babangida stepped down due to pressure from the Armed Forces Ruling Council. Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan assumed power as Interim Head of State.
17 November
Shonekan was forced to resign from office.
Defence Minister Sani Abacha became Head of State and established the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria.

1995
13 March
The Abacha administration arrested Obasanjo for allegedly supporting a secret coup plot.

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1973 22 January
A plane crashed in Kano, Nigeria, killing 176 people.

1975
29 January
General Yakubu Gowon was overthrown in a bloodless coup. General Murtala Mohammed became Head of State.
In the second half of the 1970s, global oil prices plummet. Nigeria rapidly suffers economic crisis and political disorder. Within a period of five years the average income per head slumps by 75%, from over $1000 a year to a mere $250.
Neither brief cilivian governments nor frequent military intervention prove able to rescue the situation. A regular response is to subdivide regional Nigeria into ever smaller parcels

1976
13 February
Mohammed was assassinated on his way to work. His deputy, Lieutenant-General Olusegun Obasanjo, became Head of State and set a date to end military rule.

1979
Shehu Shagari won election to the Executive Presidency of the American-style Second Republic.
The number of states is increased to nineteen in 1979 and to twenty-nine in 1991. By the end of the century it stands at thirty-six.
1 October
Shagari was sworn in as President.

1983
Shagari won reelection.
31 December
Shagari’s government was ejected from power in a palace coup, marking the end of the Second Republic. General Muhammadu Buhari became Head of State and Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria.

1984
17 April
The Buhari regime promulgated Decree No. 4, the “Public Officer’s Protection Against False Accusation” Decree, which made it an offence to ridicule the government by publication of false information.

1985
August
Buhari was overthrown in a palace coup. General Ibrahim Babangida became Head of State and President of the Armed Forces Ruling Council of Nigeria.
Babangida issued a referendum to garner support for austerity measures suggested by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, and subsequently launched his “Structural Adjustment Program” (SAP) in 1986. The policies involved in the SAP were:
1. deregulation of the agricultural sector to include abolition of marketing boards and elimination of price controls
2. privatisation of public enterprises
3. devaluation of the Nigerian naira to improve the competitiveness of the export sector
4. relaxation of restraints on foreign investment put in place by the Gowon and Obasanjo governments during the 1970s.[1]

Between 1986 and 1988, these policies were executed as intended by the IMF, and the Nigerian economy actually did grow as had been hoped, with the export sector performing especially well. But falling real wages in the public sector and among the urban classes, along with a drastic reduction in expenditure on public services, set off waves of rioting and other manifestations of discontent that made sustained commitment to the SAP difficult to maintain.
Babangida subsequently returned to an inflationary economic policy and partially reversed the deregulatory initiatives he had set in motion during the heyday of the SAP following mounting political pressure, and economic growth slowed correspondingly, as capital flight resumed apace under the influence of negative real interest rates.

1990
April
Middle Belt Christian officers, led by Major Gideon Orkar, attempt to overthrow Babangida in an unsuccessful coup.

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.
(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.
The period of nationalism and decolonization ended.
Tiv uprising.
1 October
Nigeria gained independence from Britain under Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and President Nnamdi Azikiwe.
Independence and secession: 1960-1970
Regional hostilities are a feature of independent Nigeria from the start, partly due to an imbalance of population. More than half the nation’s people are in the Fulani and Hausa territories of the Northern region. Northerners therefore control not only their own regional assembly but also the federal government in Lagos.

1962
Tennessee Nigeria receives offshore oil license.
Regional and ethnic tensions from controversial population census and regional mapping.

1963
1 October
Nigeria severed its direct governance ties under Britain, marking the birth of the Nigerian First Republic.
Amoseas and Gulf receive offshore oil licenses.[4]

1964
1 December
National parliamentary election.
SAFRAP and AGIP receive offshore oil licenses.
Another Tiv uprising heavily suppressed by police.

1965
Elections held in Western Region. Autumn Refinery completed at Port Harcourt; owned 60% by Federal Government, 40% by Shell-BP.[4]

1966
Continuous anti-northern unrest elsewhere in the nation, coming to a climax in a rebellion in 1966 by officers from the Eastern region, the homeland of the Ibo. They assassinate both the federal prime minister and the premiers of the Northern and Western regions.
15 January
A military coup guised as “exercise Damisa” led by Kaduna Nzeagwu deposed the government of the First Republic.
The prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Premier of Northern Nigeria Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Western Region Samuel Akintola, Finance Minister Festus Okotie-Eboh, and upto 30 military & political leaders & officers were assassinated.
The premier of the Eastern region, Michael Okpara, the Igbo President of federation, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and the Igbo Army Chief Major. Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi are not targeted.
Successful Negotiations between Army, Maj. Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi and Maj. Nzeogwu successful and Nzeagwu is captured.
In the ensuing chaos many Ibos living in the north are massacred.
16 January
The Federal Military Government was formed, with General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi acting as head of state and Supreme Commander of the Federal Republic.
29 July
A counter-coup by military officers of northern extraction deposed the Federal Military Government. Aguiyi-Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi, Military Governor of the Western Region, were assassinated.
Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon takes over as head of state
His response to Nigeria’s warring tribal factions is to subdivide the four regions (the Mid-West has been added in 1963), rearranging them into twelve states.
This device further inflames Ibo hostility, for one of the new states cuts their territory off from the sea.
The result is bitter and intense civil war, with the federal army (increasing during the conflict from 10,000 to 200,000 men) meeting powerful resistance from the secessionist region. The issue splits the west, where it is the first post-independence African war to receive widespread coverage. The US and Britain supply arms to the federal government. France & isreal extend the same facilities to Biafra.

1967
Eastern region secedes as the Republic of Biafra, sparking bloody civil war.
Extensive negotiations took place between Ojukwu and Gowon representing Eastern Nigeria and the Nigerian Federal military government. The Aburi Accord was finally signed at Aburi, Ghana in it was agreed that a looser Nigerian federation would be implemented.
There were different accounts on what took place in Aburi. Ojukwu accused the federal government of going back on their promises while the federal government accused Ojukwu of distortion and half-truths. Ojukwu gained agreement to a confederation for Nigeria, rather than a federation.
This led to the accord being reneged upon as a stalemate was the result when the Western region led by Obafemi Awolowo and the Northern leaders threatened cessation alike.
27 May
Gowon announces further subdivision of Nigeria, into twelve states.
30 May
Nigerian-Biafran War: General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, declared his province an independent republic called Biafra.
The Federal Military Government placed an embargo on all shipping to and from Biafra—excluding oil. Biafra quickly moved to collect oil royalties from oil companies doing business within its borders.
June
Shell-BP acquiesced to this request, the Federal Government extended its blockade to include oil.The blockade, which most foreign actors accepted, played a decisive role in putting Biafra at a disadvantage from the beginning of the war.
Led by Britain, USSR including others, supported the military government while France, Isreal & others, supplied Biafra with arms, ammunition, training & mercenaries.

29 July
Nzeogwu – now a Biafran Lt. Colonel – killed in action while conducting a night reconnaissance operation against federal troops of the 21st battalion.
From oil wealth to disaster: 1970-1999
General Gowon achieves an impressive degree of reconciliation in the country after the traumas of 1967-70. Nigeria now becomes one of the wealthiest countries in Africa thanks to its large reserves of oil (petroleum now, rather than the palm oil of the previous century). In the mid-1970s the output is more than two million barrels a day, the value of which is boosted by the high prices achieved during the oil crisis of 1973-4.
But with this wealth goes corruption, which Gowon fails to control.

1970
8 January
Ojukwu fled into exile. His deputy Philip Effiong became acting President of Biafra
15 January
Effiong surrendered to Nigerian forces. Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria.

1971
Nigeria joins Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.[1]

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20th century

British colonial rule: 1900-1960
The sixty years of Britain’s colonial rule in Nigeria are characterized by frequent reclassifying of different regions for administrative purposes. They are symptomatic of the problem of uniting the country as a single state.
In the early years the Niger Coast Protectorate is expanded to become Southern Nigeria, with its seat of government at Lagos. At this time the rulers in the north (the emir of Kano and the sultan of Sokoto) are very far from accepting British rule. To deal with the situation Frederick Lugard is appointed high commissioner and commander-in-chief of the protectorate of northern Nigeria.
Shortly after the revocation of the Charter of the United African Company, and shortly after his appointment as a British High Commissioner to establish British control over Northern Nigeria, Lugard, at a ceremony in Lokoja, 1st January 1900, hoisted the union Jack and declared the Sokoto Caliphate a British protectorate.
Although this declaration was greeted with fierce battle, by 1906 most of the North had fallen to the British imperial forces. Resistance to alien rule gradually receded as one moved from coastal areas and the banks of major inland waterways to less easily accessible areas. Hence, new political arrangements were sought by those in control of affairs.

1900 1 January
All Nigeria now under Crown rule. Protectorate of Northern Nigeria created from Company holdings.

1901
Anglo-Aro war: The war began. The Aro Confederacy began to decline. (to 1902)

1902
Anglo-Aro war: The war ended.

1903 January
Capture of Kano
The British conquered most of Northern Nigeria, including the Sokoto Caliphate.

1905
The British conquest of Southern Nigeria ended.

1906
1 May
Colonial Office amalgamates Lagos Colony with Southern Nigeria Protectorate to form the new Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
German-owned Nigerian Bitumen Company began searching for petroleum off coast.[4]
Protests against water fees in Lagos, encouraged by nationalistic journalism of Herbert Macaulay.[1]

1912
Lord Frederick Lugard, Governor of Northern Nigeria, established a system of indirect rule.
Lugard pacifies northern Nigeria by ensuring that in each territory, however small, the throne is won and retained by a chief willing to cooperate. Lugard then allows these client rulers considerable power – in the technique, soon to be known as ‘indirect rule’, which in Africa is particularly associated with his name (though it has been a familiar aspect of British colonial policy in India).
Creation of Southern Nigeria Civil Service Union; later, Nigerian Civil Servants’ Union.[1]

The second installment took place in 1914 when these territories (in the South) were administratively combined with the protectorate of Northern Nigeria, giving birth to the geo-political entity that was to be named “Nigeria” (in evocation of “River Niger” and the “Area” it flows through).
Other European powers acknowledged British sovereignty over Nigeria at the Berlin Conference.

1914 January
Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated into Nigeria. British Crown gained monopoly rights over mineral extraction.
Nigerian soldiers fight under British command in World War I.[1]
The First World War brings a combined British and French invasion of German Cameroon (a campaign not completed until early in 1916)

1918
The Adubi War is fought in Egba Land.

1920
National Congress of British West Africa founded in Accra.

1922
Clifford Constitution.
In 1922 the League of Nations grants mandates to the two nations to administer the former German colony. The British mandate consists of two thin strips on the eastern border of Nigeria.
The rival claims of Nigeria’s various regions become most evident after World War II when Britain is attempting to find a structure to meet African demands for political power.

1925
West African Students’ Union created.

1928 April
British begin direct taxation.

1929
14 October
New governor implements plans to expand taxation.
November-October
“Women’s War” : (Aba Women’s Riot). Women in Aba demonstrate against high taxes and low prices of Nigerian exports.

1931
Founding of Nigeria Union of Teachers.[1]

1936
Founding of Nigeria Youth Movement.[1]

1937
Shell D’Arcy Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (later Shell-BP) granted petroleum exploration rights.[4]

1944
National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons founded by Nnamdi “Zik” Azikiwe.[1]

1945
Countrywide general strike.[1]
Adoption of first Ten Year Plan for economic development.[1]

1946
Nigeria entered a period of decolonization and growing Nigerian nationalism.

1950
A conference of northern and southern delegates was held in Ibadan.

1951
By 1951 the country has been divided into Northern, Eastern and Western regions, each with its own house of assembly. In addition there is a separate house of chiefs for the Northern province, to reflect the strong tradition there of tribal authority. And there is an overall legislative council for the whole of Nigeria.
But even this is not enough to reflect the complexity of the situation. During the later 1950s an African political structure is gradually achieved.
MacPherson Constitution. Yoruba-aligned Action Group founded; headed by Obafemi Awolowo.

1953 1 May
Northern vs. Southern violence breaks out in the Northern city of Kano.

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

In 1954 a new constitution (the third in eight years) establishes the Federation of Nigeria and adds the Federal Territory of Lagos.

1956
Shell-BP expedition makes first discoveries of major petroleum deposits, at Olobiri and Afam.[4]

1957
Nigeria held a Constitutional conference.
From 1957 there is a federal prime minister. In the same year the Western and Eastern regions are granted internal self-government, to be followed by the Northern region in 1959.

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

1959
Nigeria holds its first national election to set up an independent government. Northern politicians won a majority of seats in the Parliament.
Petroleum Profits Tax Ordinance establishes 50–50 split of oil revenues between corporation and government. Socony Mobil receives offshore oil license.[4]
The new Nigerian currency is introduced
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.

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Back in 19th century, Karl Marx claimed that religion and nationalism was being used to distract the masses from the fact that they were being oppressed under capitalism. Mere distractions to keep the masses from undermining the power of the elites.http://ndpra.home.blog

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Historical timeline. NG: Pre-colonial to 4th Republic

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1861-1914
The Nigerian Nation-state in Gestation: Conquests, Treaties and Amalgamations,
Chronologically, the conquest of Nigeria through military campaign was inaugurated by the annexation of Lagos in 1861.

When the king and his successor fail to fulfil these terms, Lagos is annexed in 1861 as a British colony.

During the remainder of the century the consolidation of British trade and British political control goes hand in hand.
1861 6 August

Lagos Treaty of Cession: British annexes Lagos, with status of Crown Colony.[1]
1862 (January 22): Mr H.S Freeman is appointed as the first Governor of Lagos Colony.

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.

1864
Samuel Ajayi Crowther becomes first African Anglican Bishop.[3]

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

In 1878, Onitsha was sacked and Asaba bombarded.

1879
George Taubman Goldie amalgamated various British ventures to form the United African Company (later known as the Royal Niger Company).

1880
The conquest of Southern Nigeria by the British began.

Similarly, by 1884, the National African Company had concluded about thirty seven treaties at the Niger territories including Atani, Onitsha, Abo, Osomala, Ndoni, Oko, Odekpe. Internal wars among the Yoruba, caused mainly by the decline of Oyo Empire and rivalry over the control of trade, gave the British the opportunities to gain political control further inside.
Given the existing degree of British involvement, this entire area has been readily accepted at the Berlin conference in 1884 as falling to Britain in the scramble for Africa

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.

In 1886, through efforts of British Prince of Peace Mission, led by Rev. Samuel Johnson, a treaty was signed to conclude the Ibadan/Ekiti Parapo War.

1887
King Ja Ja of Opobo exiled to West Indies by British.[1]
With the exile of Jaja of Opobo in 1887 his territory became part of Niger Protectorate.

1890’s: British Journalist Flora Shaw, later wife of Lord Frederick Lugard, suggests the name “Nigeria” after the great Niger River. in the late 1890s there remains dangerous tension between Britain and France, the colonial power in neighbouring Dahomey, over drawing Nigeria’s western boundary.

1891
John Payne Jackson becomes publisher of Lagos Weekly Record.[3]

In 1892, the United African Company fought Aguleri.

In 1893 the delta region is organized as the Niger Coast Protectorate.

1892 (19 May): At the Battle of the (sacred) Yemoja River the British wreak havoc amongst the Ijebu infantry with a British Maxim (capable of firing 2000 rounds in three minutes) thereby moving towards complete dominance in the southwest area surrounding Lagos.

On 18 January 1893
the Governor of Lagos Gilbert Thomas Carter signed, at Abeokuta, a “Treaty of Friendship and Commerce” with Oba Osokalu, the Alake of Egbaland.

Again, on 3 February 1893,
Carter concluded a similar treaty with Oba Adeyemi, the Alafin of Oyo. These treaties opened up the Yoruba country to European penetration.

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

1893
British incorporate Yoruba lands in southwest into new protectorate.[1]

1894
Brassmen revolt against Royal Niger Company.[1]

In 1894, Ebrohimi, the strong- hold of Nana the Itsekiri was bombarded and Nana exiled on the accusation of slave trade and interference with free market.

1895

29 January
King Koko leads successful attack on Royal Niger Company headquarters in Akassa.

2 February
Consul-general Claude Maxwell MacDonald receives letter from King Koko offering to release hostages in exchange for redress of grievances against the Company. This request is declined.

20 February
Royal Navy counter-attacks against King Koko, razes Nembe.

In 1896, an expedition was sent against Brass and the community was sacked.
The British discovery of the use of rubber for the production of pneumatic tyre made entry into Benin forest imperative.

In a major expedition mounted against Benin in 1897, the city was sacked and its treasury looted.

1897 4 January
Covert foray of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force against Benin City is discovered and destroyed by the Kingdom of Benin.

9–18 February
Retaliatory Benin Expedition of 1897 leads to capture of Benin City.
The difficulty of administering the vast and complex region of Nigeria persuades the government that the upriver territories, thus far entrusted to the Royal Niger Company, also need to be brought under central control.

1898
Beginning of Ekumeku Movement against British rule.[1]
The Salbourn Committee on amalgamation recommended in August 1898 that the British “Niger Territories” be ultimately Amalgamated.
The British overthrow Oba Ovonramwen of Benin. One of the last independent West African kings.