Lord Lugard arrived in Lagos in 1912 as the first Governor General of the British colony of Nigeria. He introduced the so-called amalgamation of the colonial territory in 1914, and left the country ...
On 1st January, 1914, a giant country was born by the British and was named Nigeria. In geographical size and population it was bigger than its creator –Great Britain-a 356669 square miles land mass ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said that the 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates to form a single country called Nigeria was not a mistake. The president, who spoke ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914 as an act of God. The president, who made this known at the Apostolic Faith Church ...
A northern leader’s comment that the British edict of 1914 expired 100 years later has sparked debates on Nigeria’s continued existence as one indivisible entity ...
The Akwa Ibom State Government is in search of restoration experts to preserve and restore the Amalgamation House in the Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Culture and ...
A group of clergymen under the umbrella body of the Igbo Ministers Commission has said the self-determination struggle by the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is ...
Simon Ekpa, a popular Biafra agitator and separatist, has petitioned the United Nations, the United States of America, the European Union and the International Criminal Court on the expiration of 1914 ...
The historian alleged that the amalgamation was not done for the benefit of the people of Nigeria but for business reasons by the British colonial rulers. A prominent Nigerian historian, Prof. Banji ...
Nigeria 1914 Exhibition, a showcase of historical portraits, artifacts and paintings, which chronicles Nigeria’s history from the 1914 amalgamation through the 1960 Independence debuted in the ...
A group of clergymen, Igbo Ministers Commission, has insisted that the self- determination bid by the detained Biafra agitator, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is a fallout of the failure of the 1914 amalgamation ...