LANDMARK DATES IN NIGERIA HISTORY 100AD -––1970:

LANDMARK DATES IN NIGERIA HISTORY 100AD -––1970:

100 AD: First Islamic school started in Bornu.

1588 :First record of palm oil product.

1795: River Niger was discovered by Mongo Park.

1805: Mongo Park died at Biussa on the Niger River.

1841: Methodist Church established at badagry in lagos.

1842: Calabar became a British colony. Western Education brought to Nigeria by Wesley a Methodist missionary.

1861: Lagos became a British colony.

June 1st, 1862: Northern Cameroon was formally incorporated into the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

November 14th, 1864: Herbert Macaulay was born.

1872: Prison yard was established in Nigeria.

1898: Nigeria as a name was given by flora shew, it came from the word Niger, the word Niger came from the word niger which is an informal way of referring to blacks in the western world. Mrs Flora later married the first Governor General of Nigeria by the name Sir Lord Lugard.

1899: The first Government primary school was established in badagry lagos.

August 1st, 1900: Alvan Ikoku was born.

1901: Completion of Lagos Ibadan Railway line { 123 lines}.

November 16th, 1904: Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was born.

1905: The first Motor road was completed { Ibadan Oyo}.

1906: Fire brigade was established in nigeria

March 6th, 1909: Chief Obafemi Awolowo was born.

1910: Akintola S.L was born.

1910: Ahmadu Bello was born.

January 10, 1911: Lafenwa bridge was established in Abeokuta.

1912: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born.

1912: Coal was discovered at Enugu.

1918: Paper currency became a Legal tender.

1922: Herbert Macaulay formed the first Political Party { NNDP }.The Newspaper was introduced into Nigria.

1923: The first election was held in Nigeria.

1925: The first landing of Aeroplane in Nigereia.

1926: Daily times company was established in Nigeria.

May 12, 1947: The Eclipse of the sun was recorded in Nigeria.

January 18, 1948: The University of Ibadan The first University in Nigeria was established.

1948: Tremor occurred in some parts of Nigeria {Ijebu-Ode,Ibadan }.

1949: Tribune was established in Ibadan.

1955: Chief Obafemi Awolowo introduced free education in western region.

February 14, 1956: Queen Elizabeth visited Nigeria.

1958: Nigeria flag was design by Mr Taiwo Akinkunmi a Nigerian student in London.

1959: the first Secondary school was established in Lagos, C.M.S Grammer school. Central of Nigeria was also established. NTA Ibadan first African Television was established by Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

1960 : Queen Elizabeth gave Nigeria the national flag, it was sent through Princess Alexandra.

October 1, 1960:Nigeria got her independence and became the 99th member of the United Nations. The federal capital of Nigeria was shifted from Calabar to Lagos.

October 18th 1960: Nigeria was admitted into the International Labour Organization { ILO }.

January 5th, 1961: Nigeria broke diplomatic ties with France as a result of France third Atomic bomb test in the Sahara.

April 1st, 1962: Nigeria Television Service, Lagos started operation.

February 19th, 1962: The Census result was cancelled.

December 31, 1962. Chief Akintola returns as the premier of the western Nigeria. He forms a new party-the United Peoples Party-UPP

August 9, 1963. Constitutional proposals for a md-west state approved by parliament

September 7, 1963. Chief Enahoro is found guilty of treasonable felony and sentenced.

September 11, 1963. Justice sowemimo finds Chief Awolowo and 18 others guilty of treason felony. Chief Awolowo is sentenced to 10 years and Alhaji Lateef Jakande to 7 years .

September 19, 1963 parliament passes a Republican bill.

October 1, 1963. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe becomes first president of the federal republic.

November 5-8, National population count takes place.

1964: sketch was established in Ibadan.

February 8, 1964. Chief Dennis Osadebey of the NCNC becomes the premier of the new mid-west region.

May 11-12. The Prime minister meets with regionalpremiers at the Nigerian National Economic Council meeting to discuss issues of national significance.

August 29, 1964. Final census figures released and pegged at 55,620,286 with North having 29,758,875;the East 12,394462, the West10,265,848, Mid-west 2,535,839 and Lagos665,246. They were adopted for use in the federal parliamentary elections later in the year.

June 3, 1964.The NCNC, the AG, and the Nothern Progressive Front-NPF form the United Progressive Grand Alliance – UPGA.

September 23, 1964. A press bill aimed at harmornising press laws in Nigeria was debated . It was passed with stiff penalties of one year jail or four hundred naira fine for publishing a rumour. It stipulated the need for all newspapers to have a lagos office with names of editors registered with the ministry of information.

December30, 1964. General election with the United Progressive Grand Alliance – UPGA and the Nigerian National Alliance NNA as two major contenders.

January 4, 1965. The president calls on the Prime Minister to form a new government.

January 7, 1965. The Prime Minister forms a new cabinet.

October 11, 1965. Election to the Western House of Assembly holds after prolonged wrangling and disturbances between the supporters of UPGA and NNDP the two contestants to the election. Akintola forms a new government as protest from the UPGA rage on.

January 15, 1966. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu leads junior officers in a coup d’etat in which Chief S .L Akintola and Sir Ahmadu Bello were killed. The Prime Minister and his finance Minister Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh were abducted and killed.

January 16, 1966. Major General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi Ironsi takes over as first military Head of State of Nigeria.


May 24, 1966. Ironsi proclaims Unification Decree 34. It abolished the regions, divided the country into 35 provinces and unified the federal and regional public services under a single public service commission

May 29, 1966. Widespread killings of Easterners in the north reported.

July 29, 1966. A counter-coup led by Murtala Mohammed, Joe Akahan and Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma was carried out. Ironsi and Lt Col. Adekunle Fajuyi were reportedly abducted and later found dead.

July 31, 1966. Lt. Col Yakubu Gowon , Chief of Army Staff succeeds Gen. Ironsi as Nigerian second military ruler. He says tragic as recent events have been ,it is his intention to remove the Army from politics as quickly as possibly.

Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu of Eastern Nigeria, makes a broadcast rejecting Gowon as Head of state. A large exodus of Ibos from the North to the East begins. Most of the Ibos were killed on their way home, Ojukwu begins systematic distancing the East from Gowon’s government. He severes all links with lagos.

January 1967. Nigerian leaders meet in Ghana at the instance of General Ankrah, Head of state of Ghana, primarily to save the country from collapse. Agreement allows a loose confederal state for Nigeria.The peace pact is tagged The Aburi Accord. Gowon on advise rejects confederation while the Eastern Nigeria led by Ojukwu insist on“ Aburi we stand”.

May 30,1967. Ojukwu announce the seccession of Eastern Nigeria from Nigeria . He declares the East as Independent Republic of Biafra with him as the Head of state.

July 6th, 1967: Nigerian civil war started .

Janyary 15th, 1970: The Nigerian civil war ended and Gowon announces that there is no victor no vanquished with his 3 Rs of Reconciliation, Rehabilitation,and Reconstruction.

April 1st 1970: Second National Development plan commences.

LANDMARK DATES IN NIGERIA

October 1, 1960. Nigeria becomes a sovereign independent state.The british flag,the union Jack is lowered and her flag flutters at full mast to signify the first birth of a new nation. The prime minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, addressed the nation.
October 7,1960. The Prime minister Alhaji Sir Abubakar goes to the United Nations to register Nigeria as a member of the United Nations.
November 19, 1960. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe President of the senate, former Eastern Region premier and president of the NCNC becomes the first African Governor-General of Nigeria.
May 29,1962. The Federal Government is empoweredby the parliarment to declare a state of emergency in western nigeria with Honourable Dr.Moses Adekoyebo Majekodunmi as some administrator,following intra-party and parliamentary crisis involving members of the action group.
October 1, 1962. The priminister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa alerts the nation of a plot to destabilise the federal government through a coup plot.
November 2, 1962. opposition leader in paliament Chief Obafemi Awolowo along with 26 thers including Lateef Jakande,S.G. Ikoku, J.S. Tarkaand Anthony Enahoro are charged of conspiracyand treasonable felony against the federal republic of nigeria.

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