Colonial Nigeria was under British rule from the mid-19th century until Nigeria gained independence on 1 October 1960. The British annexed Lagos in 1861 and later established the Oil Rivers ...

Nigeria's national orientation, our inability to unanimously condemn wrongdoing, is perhaps our country's greatest problem. Nigeria: Colonial Mentality - allAfrica.com AllAfrica ...

But colonial authorities ignored this attitudinal shift and did not build many schools in Northern Nigeria because of a racist ideology that questioned the value of liberal (as opposed to ...

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's former president, passed on at the age of 82, on July 13, in a London clinic - as confirmed by ...

Nigeria is intensifying efforts to reclaim its cultural identity through renewed investments in art, heritage, and local storytelling.According to a statement, the push was part of a broader shift ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Nigeria ditched its indigenous national anthem in May and ...

It was the Igbo who led the cessation from Nigeria in 1967, forming the Republic of Biafra, resulting in a nearly 3-year-long civil war that killed more than 2 million people, mostly Biafran, who ...

Listen to this story Street talk: Exhibition explores the literary pulse of early post-colonial Nigeria. 0:00 / 0:00. In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a ...

"Focuses on the deaths of about 200 people in southern Nigeria in the mid-1940s. At the time, the deaths were explained as predation by shape-shifting leopard-men and native witchcraft. ... leads ...

Por DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYANABUYA, Nigeria (AP) — Holanda le devolvió el jueves a Nigeria 119 artefactos saqueados a finales del siglo XIX, entre ellos figuras humanas y animales, placas, insi… ...