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Nigeria's local mean time was UTC+00:13:35. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00) was adopted as the standard time of capital Lagos in the Southern Nigeria Protectorate—a protectorate of the British Empire—on 1 July 1905, however Lagos reverted to local mean time on 1 July 1908.
Lagos (/ ˈ l eɪ ɡ ɒ s / LAY-goss; [10] [11] also US: / ˈ l ɑː ɡ oʊ s / LAH-gohss; [11] [12] Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwest Nigeria.With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, and the most populous urban area on the African continent.
Nigeria and her important dates, 1900-1966. 1966. Day to day events in Nigeria : a diary of important happenings in Nigeria from 1960-1970. 1982. Twenty-one years of independence : a calendar of major political and economic events in Nigeria, 1960-1981. 1982. Institut für Afrika-Kunde; Rolf Hofmeier, eds. (1990). "Nigeria".
Lagos is the most populous city in Lagos State, Nigeria as a whole, and the continent of Africa. ... (53.05% of the time) annually. [73] Environmental issues
Aerial view of Lagos in 1929. Lagos is the largest city of the West-African country of Nigeria, and its former capital; it is the largest city in Africa in terms of population with about 15.3 million people. [1] It is also the 4th largest economy in Africa. [2]
Lagos Island (Yoruba: Ìsàlẹ̀ Èkó) is the principal and central Local Government Area (LGA) in Lagos, Nigeria. It was the capital of Lagos State until 1957. [2] It is part of the Lagos Division. [3] As of the preliminary 2006 Nigerian census, the LGA had a population of 209,437 within an area of just 8.7 km 2. The LGA only covers the ...
1859- The CMS Grammar School in Bariga, a suburb of Lagos in Lagos State, is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria, founded on 6 June 1859 by the Church Missionary Society; 1860 - Catholic church established. [4] 1861 - Lagos annexed by the British. [2] [5] 1862 - Lagos becomes a British colony. 1866 - Population: 25,083.
Ironsi abolished the three federal states and made Nigeria a unitary state for the first time: [185] a country in which all laws, all taxes etc. applied equally everywhere, without regional variations. Nigeria was to be forced to progress by directive, so to speak. This was inevitably viewed badly in the backward north.