prior to independence nigeria was ruled as a colony of britain.
prior to independence nigeria was ruled as a colony of britain.
prior to independence nigeria was ruled as a colony of?
britain
in 1914, the area was formally united as the colony and protectorate of nigeria. administratively, nigeria remained divided into the northern and southern provinces and lagos colony. western education and the development of a modern economy proceeded more rapidly in the south than in the north, with consequences felt in nigeria's political life ever since. following world war ii, in response to the growth of nigerian nationalism and demands for independence, successive constitutions legislated by the british government moved nigeria toward self-government on a representative and increasingly federal basis. on 1 october 1954, the colony became the autonomous federation of nigeria. by the middle of the 20th century, the great wave for independence was sweeping across africa. on 27 october 1958 britain agreed that nigeria would become an independent state on 1 october 1960.
history of nigeria
in post independence nigeria, some use the word as a general term for nigerian hausaland: a contraction of ""arewacin nijeriya"" (northern nigeria). much of the north was once politically united in the northern region, a federal division disbanded in 1967, and was previously home of the seven hausa states, later the sokoto caliphate in the pre-colonial period, and the northern nigeria protectorate under british colonial rule.
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