Today 1st of October, 2023 marks Nigeria's 63rd Year of Independence. 63 years after been freed from colonial rule by Britain, Nigeria is indeed standing strong with a population of over 200 million people and an uninterrupted democracy that's already lasted for 24 years not a lot, but for Nigerians it's a milestone considering the 33 years spent in military rule. Now for most people the fore mentioned information is common but there is a much more popular question ask on every Independence Day celebration- how developed is the country since from 1960- it is also no secret that the answer to this question is much more negative than positive. But today we are not going to talk about the development status of the country but rather the most important and glaring issue the country has faced since 1960, "unity". In 1914 the British colonial administration led by Lord Lugard fused together three regions from Western Africa, the conservative Nothern Nigeria Prote
Col Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was born on Nov, 4, 1993, Zungeru Nigeria and died Nov, 26, 2011, London, England. A Nigeria military leader and politician who was head of the secessionist State of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War. Ojukwu was the son of a wealthy Igbo businessman, after graduating from the University of Oxford in 1955, he returned to Nigeria to serve as an administrative officer. After two years, however, he joined the army and was rapidly promoted thereafter. In January 1966 a group of largely Igbo junior army officers staged a coup that overthrew the civilian government, due to the somewhat unsuccessful coup d'etat the junior officers were forced to hand over power to the highest ranking military officer, Maj.Gen.T.U. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi who then appointed Lieut.Col.Ojukwu as the Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria. However Hausa and Yoruba army officers were scared of a government dominated by the Igbo, therefore in January 1966 northern o