Only five political parties were approved by the regime and voter turnout for local elections in December 1997 was under 10%. Obasanjo was reelected in 2003. [25][26] Iron smelting furnaces at Taruga, a Nok site, date from around 600 BC. Most fateful for the Ironsi government was the decision to issue Decree No. In subsequent attempts to reconvene the Western parliament, similar disturbances broke out. Throughout the 16th-century much of northern Nigeria paid homage to Songhai in the west or to Borno, a rival empire in the east. History & Background. By the middle of the 20th century, the great wave for independence was sweeping across Africa. [18][19], The earliest known example of a fossil human skeleton found anywhere in West Africa, which is 13,000 years old, was found at Iwo-Eleru in Isarun, western Nigeria, and attests to the antiquity of habitation in the region. The emergence of democracy in Nigeria in May 1999 ended 16 years of consecutive military rule. There the vegetation provides humus and protects it from erosion by heavy rainfall. Nigerian relations with the US, cool during the war, are improving, but France may be seen as the future patron. Security officers rounded up the accused, including former Head of State Obasanjo and his deputy, retired General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua. [60][61], With the decline of Nri kingdom in the 15th to 17th centuries, several states once under their influence, became powerful economic oracular oligarchies and large commercial states that dominated Igboland. The need to protect its commercial interests compelled Borno to intervene in Kanem, which continued to be a theatre of war throughout the 15th century and into the 16th century. [65] Akwa Akpa (named Calabar by the Spanish) became a center of the Atlantic slave trade, where African slaves were sold in exchange for European manufactured goods. During the 16th century, the Songhai Empire reached its peak, stretching from the Senegal and Gambia rivers and incorporating part of Hausaland in the east. [14] Nigeria became a republic again after a new constitution was written in 1979. Rioting broke out in the North. [83] The Ironsi government's efforts to abolish the federal structure and the renaming the country the Republic of Nigeria on 24 May 1966 raised tensions and led to another coup by largely northern officers in July 1966, which established the leadership of Major General Yakubu Gowon. Shortly afterwards the AG opposition leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was imprisoned to be without foundation. Corrections? ", Ogbeidi, Michael M. "Political leadership and corruption in Nigeria since 1960: A socio-economic analysis. Necklaces form a cone around the neck and keep the focus on the face. Eri, the god-like founder of Nri, is believed to have settled in the region around 948 with other related Igbo cultures following in the 13th century. On 15 January 1966, a group of army officers (the Young Majors) mostly south-eastern Igbos, overthrew the NPC-NNDP government and assassinated the prime minister and the premiers of the northern and western regions. 150200 deaths (current estimate). Omissions? The new president faces the daunting task of rebuilding a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement. Igbo gods, like those of the Yoruba, were numerous, but their relationship to one another and human beings was essentially egalitarian, reflecting Igbo society as a whole. He was assassinated on 13 February 1976 in an abortive coup and his chief of staff Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became head of state. In November 2009, he fell ill and was flown out of the country to Saudi Arabia for medical attention. Foreign exchange earnings and government revenues increased spectacularly with the oil price rises of 197374. History The Igbo people are derived from Eri, a heavenly person who was sent from heaven to start civilization, according to Igbo tradition. From other parts of Africa, the Neo-Marxist school arrived and gained a number of supporters. The Nigerian Army, vastly expanded during the war, is both the main support to the FMG and the chief threat to it. Shonekan was to rule until elections scheduled for February 1994. "The petroleum industry is expanding faster than expected and oil revenues will help defray military and social service expenditures "Nigeria emerged from the war with a heightened sense of national pride mixed with an anti-foreign sentiment, and an intention to play a larger role in African and world affairs." Nigeria gained its independence from Britain in 1960. The public response convinced Babangida of intense opposition to an economic recession. Evidence of iron smelting has also been excavated at sites in the Nsukka region of southeast Nigeria in what is now Igboland: dating to 2,000 BC at the site of Lejja[28][29] and to 750 BC at the site of Opi. The initiation rite of a new king shows that the ritual process of becoming Ezenri (Nri priest-king) follows closely the path traced by the hero in establishing the Nri kingdom. Nigeria is a patchwork of distinctive regions, including deserts, plains, swamps, mountains, and steamy jungles. [38][39] Today the Hausa people now reside in the Northern part of Nigeria.[40]. The Umunoha state in the Owerri area used the Igwe ka Ala oracle at their advantage. General Yakubu Gowon, head of the Federal Military Government (FMG) is the accepted national leader and his popularity has grown since the end of the war. [74], The Federation of Nigeria was granted full independence on 1 October 1960 under a constitution that provided for a parliamentary government and a substantial measure of self-government for the country's three regions. Each king traces his origin back to the founding ancestor, Eri. In November 1999, the army destroyed the town of Odi, Bayelsa State and killed scores of civilians in retaliation for the murder of 12 policemen by a local gang. Problems exist with inflation, internal debt, and a huge military budget, competing with popular demands for government services. At the same time, rival schools developed. The major drainage areas in Nigeria are the Niger-Benue basin, the Lake Chad basin, and the Gulf of Guinea basin. Each king traces his origin back to the founding ancestor, Eri. The country became independent on October 1, 1960, and in 1963 adopted a republican constitution but elected to stay a member of the Commonwealth. Biram was the original seat of government, while Zaria supplied labor and was known as the "Chief of Slaves." Ofega was the queen for the Onitsha Igbo. There is a huge gap between the archaeological finds of Igbo Ukwu, which reveal a rich material culture in the heart of the Igbo region in the 8th century, and the oral traditions of the 20th century. In the 1959 elections held in preparation for independence, the NPC captured 134 seats in the 312-seat parliament. 34 sought to do away with the whole federal structure under which the Nigerian government had been organised since independence. The leading scholars of the Ibadan School include Saburi Biobaku, Kenneth Dike, J. F. A. Ajayi, Adiele Afigbo, E. A. Ayandele, O. Ikime and Tekena Tamuno. Hundreds of ethnic Hausa were killed in reprisal attacks in south-eastern Nigeria. Nigeria is bordered to the north by Niger, to the east by Chad and Cameroon, to the south by the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by Benin. ); terracotta; Muse du quai Branly. [47], The Yoruba pay tribute to a pantheon composed of a Supreme Deity, Olorun and the Orisha. Large freshwater swamps give way to brackish mangrove thickets near the seacoast. Its scholars also wrote the textbooks that were used at all levels of the Nigerian education system for many years. In the 1980s Nigerian scholarship, in general, began to decline, and the Ibadan School was hugely affected. The most powerful of these states were Ghana, Gao, and Kanem, which were not within the boundaries of modern Nigeria but which influenced the history of the Nigerian savanna. Others have suggested that the technology moved west from the Nile Valley, although the Iron Age in the Niger River valley and the forest region appears to predate the introduction of metallurgy in the upper savanna by more than 800 years. [95], The new president took over a country that faced many problems, including a dysfunctional bureaucracy, collapsed infrastructure, and a military that wanted a reward for returning quietly to the barracks. Lugard. In May 1999 violence erupted in Kaduna State over the succession of an Emir resulting in more than 100 deaths. According to the Bayajidda legend, the Hausa states were founded by the sons of Bayajidda, a prince whose origin differs by tradition, but official canon records him as the person who married the last Kabara of Daura and heralded the end of the matriarchal monarchs that had erstwhile ruled the Hausa people. [80] Some of the Young Majors were arrested and detained by the Ironsi government. The Southwest part of Nigeria was formed recently as a nation by 850, it was also established as the basics of the Eastern Akan tribes. The oldest fossil remains found by archaeologists in the southwestern area of Iwo Eleru, near Akure, have been dated to about 9000 bce. Trans-Saharan trade routes linked the western Sudan with the Mediterranean since the time of Carthage and with the Upper Nile from a much earlier date, establishing avenues of communication and cultural influence that remained open until the end of the 19th century. Archaeological research, pioneered by Charles Thurstan Shaw, has shown a long history of human settlement in Nigeria. As a consequence, Borno lost many northern territories to the Tuareg whose mobility allowed them to endure the famine more effectively. Following the annulment of the June 12 election, the United States and others imposed sanctions on Nigeria including travel restrictions on government officials and suspension of arms sales and military assistance. Archaeological findings pieced together show that by the . The initiation rite of a new king shows that the ritual process of becoming Ezenri (Nri priest-king) follows closely the path traced by the hero in establishing the Nri kingdom. History of Nigeria Early Nigerian cultures The Nok culture Evidence of human occupation in Nigeria dates back thousands of years. The Onitsha Kingdom, which was originally inhabited by Igbos from east of the Niger, was founded in the 16th century by migrants from Anioma (Western Igboland). The Igala Kingdom expanded beyond the present-day boundary. The Igala played significant roles in the formation of Nigeria having been made host to the capital of Nigeria at Lokoja in the past, with Lugard as the Governor. [81] In the Northern Region, however, the Hausa and Fulani people demanded that the detainees be placed on trial for murder.[81]. Benin exercised considerable influence on the western Igbo, who adopted many of the political structures familiar to the Yoruba-Benin region, but Asaba and its immediate neighbours, such as Ibusa, Ogwashi-Ukwu, Okpanam, Issele-Azagba and Issele-Ukwu, were much closer to the Kingdom of Nri. [87], Following the civil war, the country turned to the task of economic development. The Hausa Kingdoms began as seven states founded according to the Bayajidda legend by the six sons of Bawo, the unique son of the hero and the queen Magajiya Daurama in addition to the hero's son, Biram or Ibrahim, of an earlier marriage. Their homeland, the former Igala Kingdom, is an approximately triangular area of about 14,000 km2 (5,400 sq mi) in the angle formed by the Benue and Niger rivers. Toyin Falola, and Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere. This meant that, while certain Igbo may have lived under different formal administrations, all followers of the Igbo religion had to abide by the rules of the faith and obey its representative on earth, the Eze Nri. The situation is uncertain, with Nigeria, ..is sliding downhill faster and faster, with less and less chance unity and stability. [77] Fighting between the members broke out. Their nearest linguistic relatives are the Igala who live on the opposite side of the Niger's divergence from the Benue, and from whom they are believed to have split about 2,000 years ago. Some Fulbe converted to Islam as early as the 11th century and settled among the Hausa, from whom they became racially indistinguishable. The origin of Nigeria's educational policies dates back to the 1955 comprehensive education laws of the Western Nigeria, 1957 Universal Primary Education (UPE) of the Eastern region and the 1976 UPE national programme; the 2000 Universal Basic Education (UBE) is the baby programme which While the hero had a child with the queen, Bawo, and another child with the queen's maid-servant, Karbagari. [100], Two militants of an unknown faction shot and killed Ustaz Ja'afar Adam, a northern Muslim religious leader and Kano State official, along with one of his disciples in a mosque in Kano during dawn prayers on 13 April 2007. The Yoruba were organized in mostly patrilineal groups that occupied village communities and subsisted on agriculture. There they constituted a devoutly religious, educated elite who made themselves indispensable to the Hausa kings as government advisers, Islamic judges, and teachers. Aro and Abiriba cooperated to become a powerful economic force.[64]. Gobir, located in the west, was the "Chief of War" and was mainly responsible for protecting the empire from the invasive Kingdoms of Ghana and Songhai. [89] All five parties won representation in the National Assembly. This is a figure that seems to be in the midst of a conversation. 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The southwest has always been dominated by the Yoruba people, descendants of the Oyo Empire, while the southeast has always been dominated by the Igbo people . "Africa's most populous country (population estimated at 48 million) is in the throes of a highly complex internal crisis rooted in its artificial origin as a British dependency containing over 250 diverse and often antagonistic tribal groups. However, on June 12, 2018, General Muhammadu Buhari, as president, announced a shift in this date from May 29 to June 12, as from the year 2019. To them, being civilized meant being Christianized. On 1 October 1995 Abacha announced the timetable for a three-year transition to civilian rule. However, the bloody nature of the Young Majors coup caused another coup to be carried out by General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. Despite Borno's hegemony the Hausa states continued to wrestle for ascendancy. In 1808 the Hausa Nation was finally conquered by Usman dan Fodio and incorporated into the Hausa-Fulani Sokoto Caliphate.[45]. The monarch of Nigeria was still head of state but legislative power was vested in a bicameral parliament, executive power in a prime minister and cabinet, and judicial authority in a Federal Supreme Court. He remained incommunicado for 50 days, by which time rumours were rife that he had died. [44], Despite relatively constant growth, the Hausa states were vulnerable to aggression and, although the vast majority of its inhabitants were Muslim by the 16th century, they were attacked by Fulani jihadists from 1804 to 1808. The FMG is neither very efficient nor dynamic, but the recent announcement that it intends to retain power for six more years has generated little opposition so far. Although promising restoration of civilian rule he refused to announce a transitional timetable until 1995. [67] From 1725 until 1750, roughly 17,000 enslaved Africans were sold from Calabar to European slave traders; from 1772 to 1775, the number soared to over 62,000. Abacha enforced authority through the federal security system which is accused of numerous human rights abuses, including infringements on freedom of speech, assembly, association, travel, and violence against women. In this Nok work, the head is dramatically larger than the body supporting it, yet the figure possesses elegant details and a powerful focus. The term means that people should be independent and live within political boundaries that corresponded to where they lived. [55] The Nri had a taboo symbolic code with six types. As of January 2010, he was still abroad. The 1965 national election produced a major realignment of politics and a disputed result that set the country on the path to civil war. The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose remains date from at least 13,000 BC through early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC. The Abiriba and Aro are Brothers whose migration is traced to the Ekpa Kingdom, East of Cross River, their exact take of location was at Ekpa (Mkpa) east of the Cross River. A separatist movement later formed the Republic of Biafra in 1967, leading to the three-year Nigerian Civil War. For local elections, nine parties were granted provisional registration with three fulfilling the requirements to contest the following elections. In 1994 the government set up the Ogoni Civil Disturbances Special Tribunal to try Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and others for their alleged roles in the killings of four Ogoni politicians. The chiefs of Akwa Akpa placed themselves under British protection in 1884. [86] The ensuing Nigerian Civil War resulted in an estimated 3.5 million deaths (mostly from starving children) before the war ended with Gowon's famous "No victor, no vanquished" speech in 1970. Gradually Borno's position weakened; its inability to check political rivalries between competing Hausa cities was one example of this decline. At various moments in their history, the Hausa managed to establish central control over their states, but such unity has always proven short. Islam was used to reinforce the political and social structures of the state although many established customs were maintained. The greatest and the well-known empire that ruled the region before the British arrived was the Benin Empire whose ruler was known as Oba of Benin. Many Fulani moved into Hausaland and Borno, and their arrival increased tensions because they had no loyalty to the political authorities, who saw them as a source of increased taxation. [88], The U.S. analysts said that "Nigeria is still very much a tribal society" where local and tribal alliances count more than "national attachment. The school was quite traditional in its subject matter, being largely confined to the political history that colleagues in Europe and North America were then rejecting. Prehistoric inhabitants adjusting to the encroaching desert were widely scattered by the third millennium BC, when the desiccation of the Sahara began. On 27 October 1958 Britain agreed that Nigeria would become an independent state on 1 October 1960. [101], In the 2007 general election, Umaru Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, both of the People's Democratic Party, were elected president and Vice President, respectively. As a colony, it was initially divided into the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate. By these same routes, Islam made its way south into West Africa after the 9th century. The election was marred by electoral fraud, and denounced by other candidates and international observers.[102][103]. [109], Nigeria's Democracy day was originally celebrated on May 29, every year since General Olusegun Obasanjo emerged President in 1999. The primary exports were slaves, leather, gold, cloth, salt, kola nuts, and henna. Sonni Ali seized Timbuktu in 1468 and Djenn in 1473, building his regime on trade revenues and the cooperation of Muslim merchants. With over 12 years of direct political experience in a terrain dominated by men, Senator Tinubu's tenure as first lady will be one of a kind. In August 1983, Shagari and the NPN were returned to power in a landslide with a majority of seats in the National Assembly and control of 12 state governments. In October 1989 the government established two parties, the National Republican Convention (NRC) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP); other parties were not allowed to register. 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