Virtually any topic for the virtual learner. Dr. Toyin Falola is an African historian and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. When Lord Lugard was in charge of the country, he spent half of his time running Nigeria from England. Once the British took over Nigeria they began to dictate the affairs of the territory and enslaved parts of the population.
Much was, however, not done to improve the standards of living for the locals; the military government did not invest in infrastructure or help businesses grow thus leading to a political struggle in the country. In the 15th century, the Portuguese began trading but, by the end of the 19th century, the British had conquered present-day Nigeria.
He passed on in May 2010 and was replaced by Dr Goodluck Jonathan who won the 2011 general elections but was defeated in the March 2015 general elections by Muhammadu Buhari. This influenced the publicity of Nigeria globally.Can we say Nigeria as longed deserved some accolades?The history of Nigeria from 1914 would be incomplete without mentioning Lord Fredrick Lugard the then British colonial governor.Remember that during the pre-colonial history of Nigeria, several states were formed whereby these were the sophisticated powerful empires and kingdoms.This prompted the British who were ready to turn the separated states across the western region into a colony. The elections were, however, cancelled by Babangida.
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Ibrahim Babangida became the new president and in his tenure, he enlisted Nigeria in the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Nigeria has so many beautiful places which has attracted tourists from around the world.Quoting the present vice president of Nigeria prof. Osibajo, “Nigeria’s unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many thousands of lives have been lost.Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong for us as good men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made”.This implies we be good patriotic citizens of this great nation called Nigeria, reminisce on the complicated colonial eras in the history of Nigeria, say no to violence live in peace and unity.I would draw the curtain on this note that “there’s no country in world with diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria”. With the above in mind, the country’s history will be discussed in brief below.
Read I’m sure you’ll want to have the history of Nigeria saved on your device for offline use, Earlier said above about the history of Nigeria from 1960, on 1960 October 1The Hausa Fulani whose religion is Islam dominated the northern region, representing the National people’s Congress (NPC), while the Igbo whose religion is Christianity dominated the eastern region, representing the National Convention of Nigerian Citizen (NCNC).The Yoruba’s who also practiced Christianity dominated the western region ably representing the Action Group (AG) respectively were political parties formed consisting of ethnic groups..Although, the three main political groups formed for 14 years after the year 1914 were the Nigeria had control over its National affairs whereby proclaiming itself the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 0ctober 1963, and according to history of Nigeria, Nigeria had experienced bad leadership and administrations both civilian and military rules.Nigeria today is currently ruled by a democratic system of government under the leadership of President Muhammed Buhari GCFR, since her independence, you will agree with me that Nigeria has faced loads of challenges.Check out this detailed video by Jide Olanrewaju from Naij for more information about the history of Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest rate of twin births per year globally.