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In 1900, Colonel Lugard was appointed High Commissioner of the newly created Protectorate of Northern Nigeria. He read the proclamation at Mount Patti in Lokoja that established the protectorate on 1 January 1900, [126] but at this time the part of northern Nigeria that was actually under British control was still small. [111]
British colonialism created Nigeria, joining diverse peoples and regions in an artificial political entity along the Niger River. The nationalism that became a political factor in Nigeria during the interwar period derived both from an older political particularism and broad pan-Africanism , rather than from any sense among the people of a ...
Nigeria, [a] officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. [9] ... An imbalance was created in the polity as a result of the 1961 plebiscite.
A History of Nigeria. Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-511-39712-7; Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Democratic Federalism in Nigeria — John N. Paden; Oriji, John N. Political Organization in Nigeria Since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (St. Martin's ...
Date created Preceding Entity Abia State: 27 August 1991 Imo State: Adamawa State: 27 August 1991 Gongola State: Akwa Ibom State: 23 September 1987 Cross River State: Anambra State: 3 February 1976 East Central State: Bauchi State: 3 February 1976 North-Eastern State: Bayelsa State: 1 October 1996 Rivers State: Benue State: 3 February 1976 ...
At the time of independence in 1960, Nigeria was a federal state of three regions: Northern, Western, and Eastern. Additionally, provinces, which were a legacy of colonial and protectorate times, remained extant until they were abolished in 1976. 1963–1967: In 1963, a new region, the Mid-Western Region, was created from the Western Region ...
The constitution of Nigeria is the written supreme law of the Federal Republic ... [18] The 1999 constitution created the Fourth Nigerian Republic, a federation with ...
The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the southeast and ...