VITAL EVENT THAT SHAPED NIGERIA’S
HISTORY
AFTER INDEPENDENCE…………
- June 1, 1961 Southern Cameroon ceased to be administered as port of Nigerian federation.
- June 1, 1962 Northern Cameroon was formally incorporated and administers as part of federal Republic of Nigerian.
- October 1, 1963 Nigerian becomes a republic, breaking away from the British monarchy.
- January 15, 1966 fall of the first Republic as Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa is killed in a coup led by Major Kaduna Nzeoggwu.
- January 16, 1964 Aguiyi Ironsi takes over as the nation’s head of start.
- July 29, 1966 Aguiyi Ironsi killed in a counter coup by a group of northern army officers who revolted against the government, and he is replaced by Yakubu Gowon.
- January 5, 1967 Military leaders and senior police officers of each region sign an accord in Aburi, Ghana and agree an a lose confederation of regions.
- May 30, 1964 chukwuemake Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Eastern Regions military governor, announces the break-away of the Eastern Region as the Republic of Biafra, sparking blooding civil war that led to the death of over a million people.
- January 12, 1970 Biafra leaders surrender, as the officers administering the government, Phillip Effiong, calls for a cease-fire the region was integrated into Nigerian.
- April 2, 1972 Nigerian change from left-hand drive to right-hand drivers.
- January 1, 1973 NAIRA was introduced as the national currency.
- July 21, 1973 National Youth Service Corp (N.Y.S.C.) inaugurated.
- July 25, 1975 Yakubu Gowon overthrown in Corp, while attending OAU summit in Uganda.
- February 13, 1976 Murtala Mohammed assassinated by Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka. Olusegun Obasanjo takes over.
- September 21, 1978 a new constitution, styled on American president system, published.
- June 20, 1982 Odimegwu Ojukwu, leader of the defunct Biafra Republic, returned from exile.
- January 1983 Government expels more than one million foreigners, mostly Ghanaians.
- October 19, 1986 Dele Giwa, pioneer Editor-in Chief of News Watch Magazine was killed by a parcel-bomb.
- 1986 prof. Wole Soyinka becomes the African and the only Nigerian so far, to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize (for literature)
- December 12, 1991 Niger’s capital city moved from Lagos to Abuja.
- Jane 23, 1993 General Ibrahim Babangida annulled June 12, 1993 election.
- August 27, 1993 Babangida transferred power to Interim National Government.
- 1994 Acclaimed winders of the Jane 12 election, MKO Abiola, arrested after proclaiming himself president. He died in custody on June, 1998.
- 1994 Nigeria’s first appearance in the FIFA World CupTM finals in U.S.A.
- November 10, 1995 Ken Saro Wiwa, & co, executed by the Sani Abacha Administration.
- August 13, 1996 Nigeria’s Under 23 football team (Dream Team) won the Olympic Gold medal in football event, in Abubakar, U.S.A
- March 22, 1998 The beatification of late father Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi by Pope John Paul II.
- June 8, 1998 Abacha died and succeeded by Abdusalami Abubaker.
- August 1, 2001 Global system of Mobile-Telecommunication, popularly known as G.S.M., Launched in Nigeria.
- January 27, 2002 Lagos Bomb explosion in Ikeja Military Cantonment. Over 1000 people lost their lives.
- October 1, 2002 National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was inaugurated.
- July 10, 2003 Governor of Anambra State, Chris Ngige, abducted by a team of police officials and forced to sign his resignation letter.
- September 6, 2003 Nigerian first satellite, Nigeria Sat- 1 launched into space.
- April 8, 2003 The Nigerian stadium, Abuja was officially opened.
- December 3, 2003 Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen of England visited Nigerian again.
- May 18, 2005 State of emergency declared in plateau State.
- January 2005 Inspector General of police, Tafa Balogun, forced to resign from office on corruption charges, tried and jailed by a law court.
- July 2005 Paris of rich lenders agrees to write off two-third of Nigeria’s $ 30 billion debt.
- March 15, 2006 Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra becomes the first man to unseat a serving governor.
- August 2, 2006 Nigeria cedes sovereignty over the disputed Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, ending a long-stand dispute.
- August 2009 Two-month offer of a government amnesty for Niger Delta militants comes into force, as thousand of militants drop their arms.
- February 10, 2010 National Assembly votes to transfer power to the vice-president Goodluck Jonathan, already acting in yar` Adua to resume presidency.
- May 5, 2010 Umara Yar` Adua dies after a long illness. His vice-president, Goodluck Jonathan, already acting in Yar` Adua`s stand, succeeds him.
- October 1, 2010 Nigeria marks the 50th Independence Anniversary. But the colorful event was disrupted by bomb-blast; and several people killed.
- April 18, 2011 President Goodluck Jonathan declared winner of the free, fair and credible.
- May 23, 2011 United National Secretary General, Ban Kl-Moon, pays a three day working visit to Nigeria.
- May 28, 2011 President Goodluck Jonathan sign the Freedom of Information Bill into Law, making Nigeria sixteenth member of the Commonwealth and the seventh country of Africa to have passed a low granting a right to information.
- 16 June, 2011 sluiced bombing debuted in Nigeria, when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the police headquarters in Abuja.
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