Unilateral declaration of independence Katanga's declaration of independence by Moise Tshombe in July 1960, the attempted secession of Biafra from Nigeria in 1967, the Bangladeshi declaration of independence from Pakistan in 1970, the (internationally unrecognized) secession of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from Cyprus in 1983, the Palestinian Declaration of Independence from the Palestinian territories in 1988, and that of the Republic of Kosovo in 2008. During the break up of the Soviet Union throughout 1991, many of its republics declared their independence unilaterally without agreement and were thus not recognised as legitimate by the Soviet central government. During the breakup of Yugoslavia,
National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (Nigeria) problem on a wider scale. The agency is known to have commissioned a weekly TV/Radio series, "NESREA Watch", which had a cast that included popular Nigeria artists like Kiki Omeili. One of the States set out to build a 260 km superhighway from Calabar to Katsina-Ala, both in Nigeria. However, the road was to run through one of the country's pristine rainforests. This led to an uproar from local and international environmental activists who complained that the Cross River State Government had not consulted widely before embarking on the massive project. NESREA that issued an order for construction work to