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Nigeria's story from pre-colonial kingdoms through colonial rule, independence, and the republics to today.
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The Aba Women's Riots of November–December 1929, remembered in Igbo historiography as the Women's War or Ogu Umunwanyi, were a mass uprising of tens…
The Amalgamation of 1914 merged the British Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria — the latter already including the Colony of Lagos, annexed in…
Indirect Rule in Colonial Nigeria
Indirect rule was Frederick Lugard's system of governing colonial Nigeria through existing local rulers rather than direct British administration, formalised after 1900 in the…
June 12, 1993: The Annulled Election
On 12 June 1993, Nigerians elected Chief MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party president over Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention in…
The Kingdom of Benin was an Edo state in what is now southern Nigeria, ruled by an oba dynasty founded by Eweka I in…
The Nok culture was an Iron Age society centred on Nigeria's Jos Plateau, known for producing sub-Saharan Africa's oldest large-scale terracotta sculpture and among…
The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba state founded around the 14th century in the savannah of what is now southwestern Nigeria, whose cavalry-based military…
The Sokoto Caliphate was an Islamic state founded by the Fulani scholar Usman dan Fodio after an 1804–1808 jihad against the Hausa city-states of…