***NIGERIA HISTORICAL BACK ROUND*** Nigeria devided its name from the river niger, the names was suggested by lady lord lugard in 1912 but the name was not officially use unit 1914 when northen and southern protectracted amalgamated (join together) while lagos become the Federal capital the british cule nigeria for 46years from 1914 TO 1960 when nigeria become indedpendent (1st october 1960) -. 1963 the mid estern regoin was 0ccured out of the formed the year 1963 the gov, of Dr. namandi azikiwe and Sir abubakar tafawa balewa namiji uban yan boko wannan haka yake swept away and major gen i forget his name he become head of state yakubu gowon become head of state 1967 gen. /Gowon splited the country it to 12states which existed up to 1995 when the goverment was dethroned Gen. murtala ramat muammad added 7 more states bringing the number 19 states and changed the federal capital from lagos to ABUJA after the assanation of murtala OBASANJO took over. he handed the power to orilian gov. under alhaji shehu shaagari in 1979 on 31st august 31december 1983 Gen BUHARI become a head of state on 27th 1985 Gen BABANGIDA toppeled the gov. and the head of state in 1987 turn more state were created toring the number to 21 state in 1993 handed over to interim national goverment (ING) under chief ernest some ican in the same year additonal 1993 Gen ABACHA come to power as president in 1995 additional six state were created briging the number to 36states after the demise of ABACHA in 1998 ABDUSSALAMU become a pres. and handed over another civilian GOV. under chief olusegun in 29th may 1999 on 29th may 2007 anohter elected was shawarn to office ALH ummaru musa yar.aduwa he dead after a long ilness an may 2010 were his deputy chief Good luck jonathan ebeellley become the president of the federal republic of nigeria this is were use and to day NEXT ELECTED PRESIDENT IN SHA ALLAH DR MALAM IBRAHIM SHEKARAU OR DR NAMADI SAMBO MY WISH 2015 THANK FOR YOUR LISTENING TO ME BYE
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:40:41 +0000
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