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Timeline: Nigeria A chronology of key events: 1861-1914 - Britain consolidates its hold over what it calls the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, governs by "indirect rule" through local leaders. 1922 - Part of former German colony Kamerun is added to Nigeria under League of Nations mandate. 1960 - Independence, with Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa leading a coalition government. 1962-63 – Controversial census fuels regional and ethnic tensions. 1966 January - Balewa killed in coup. Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi heads up military administration. 1966 July - Ironsi killed in counter-coup, replaced by Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon. 1967 - Three eastern states secede as the Republic of Biafra, sparking bloody civil war. 1970 - Biafran leaders surrender, former Biafran regions reintegrated into country. 1975 – Gowon overthrown, flees to Britain, replaced by Brigadier Murtala Ramat Mohammed, who begins process of moving federal capital to Abuja. Obasanjo - first time round 1976 - Mohammed assassinated in coup attempt. Replaced by Lieutenant-General Olusegun Obasanjo, who helps introduce American-style presidential constitution. 1979 – Elections bring Alhaji Shehu Shagari to power. 1983 January - The government expels more than one million foreigners, mostly Ghanaians, saying they had overstayed their visas and were taking jobs from Nigerians. The move is condemned abroad but proves popular in Nigeria. 1983 August, September - Shagari re-elected amid accusations of irregularities. 1983 December - Major-General Muhammad Buhari seizes power in bloodless coup. 1985 - Ibrahim Babangida seizes power in bloodless coup, curtails political activity. 1993 June - Military annuls elections when preliminary results show victory by Chief Moshood Abiola. 1993 August - Power transferred to Interim National Government. 1993 November - General Sani Abacha seizes power, suppresses opposition. 1994 – Abiola arrested after proclaiming himself president. 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and campaigner against oil industry damage to his Ogoni homeland, is executed following a hasty trial. In protest, European Union imposes sanctions until 1998, Commonwealth suspends Nigeria's membership until 1998. 1998 - Abacha dies, succeeded by Major-General Abdulsalami Abubakar. Chief Abiola dies in custody a month later. 1999 - Parliamentary and presidential elections. Olusegun Obasanjo sworn in as president. 2000 - Adoption of Islamic law by several northern states in the face of opposition from Christians. Tension over the issue results in hundreds of deaths in clashes between Christians and Muslims. 2001 - Tribal war in Benue state, in eastern-central Nigeria, displaces thousands of people. In October, army soldiers sent to quash the fighting kill more than 200 unarmed civilians, apparently in retaliation for the abduction and murder of 19 soldiers. 2001 October - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, South African President Thabo Mbeki and Algerian President Bouteflika launch New Partnership for African Development, or NEPAD, which calls on the world to be a partner in Africa's development and commits African states to instituting open government, respect for human rights and efforts to end wars in return for more aid, foreign investment and a lifting of trade barriers which impede African exports. 2002 January - Blast at munitions dump in Lagos kills more than 1,000. 2002 February - Some 100 people are killed in Lagos during bloody clashes between Hausas from the mainly-Islamic north and ethnic Yorubas from the predominantly-Christian southwest. Thousands flee their homes. The city's governor suggests retired army officials stoked the violence in an attempt to restore military rule. 2002 March - An appeals court reverses a death sentence handed down to a woman found guilty of adultery. An Islamic court in the north had ordered that the woman be stoned to death, but the sentence provoked an international outcry including a plea for clemency from the EU. 2002 October - International Court of Justice awards the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, but Nigeria is adamant that it will defend its right to the valuable land mass. 2002November - More than 200 people die in four days of rioting stoked by Muslim fury over controversy surrounding the planned Miss World beauty pageant in Kaduna in December. The event is relocated to Britain. 2003 12 April - Legislative elections, the first since the end of military rule in 1999. Polling is marked by delays and allegations of ballot-rigging. President Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party wins a parliamentary majority. 2003 19 April - First civilian-run presidential elections since the end of military rule. Olusegun Obasanjo is elected for a second term with more than 60% of the vote. Opposition parties reject the result. EU observers say polling was marred by "serious irregularities".
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Not too bad from a guy who came to America when he was a juvenile, kmows nothing about Biafranigeria but internet, whose idea of ideal woman is ghetto fabulous[welfare reciepients] but will hook up other Nigerians like Thompson Barimoh with Wawa girls. Oh well, he must have copied it from a book. Ednut, my boy, I am not aware that you read books or at least pretend to be intellectually stimulating. But I'm impressed, just for taking the time to research/copy for this post.
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