Every October 1st is the celebration of our dear nation Nigeria and today make it 60 years the Nigeria country was granted independent by the British empire in October 1st 1960.
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In the beginning Nigeria was not a single country and was even different kinds of separate people under seperate governance, Nigeria got the name from Flora Shaw who was journalist and later married the governor general in the person of fedrick lord Luggard who almagamate the Northern protectorate and the southern protectorate and the colony of Lagos. the said given name called " Niger area" or simple area of the Niger . The name was drawn from one of the biggest river in Africa, the river Niger that cross across several country in part of West Africa . From 1914 when Nigeria was almagamated by lord fedrick luggard, different governor's replace lord Luggard and the people of Nigeria seek prompt disposal of the colonial master to usher in self rule as each Governor has failed state the governor represent the queen of England in Nigeria and every if their effort is show in the intrest of the queen . The Nigerian Elites keep pressurising the British to leave, the west was granted self rule in 1956 followed by the east in 1957, the north believe the country is not ready yet for any self rule what so ever how ever Nigeria got independence in 1st ofOctober 1960.
Presently Nigeria have over 250 ethnic group and over 500 distinct language see the CIA report on the link .https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html There are popular 3 ethnic groups which namely the Hausa- fulani 29 percent this people could be mainly found in the norther part of the country , followed by the yoruba about 21 % which are in the west and the Igbo about 18% who are reside in the Eastern part of the country and others take their share of the population. Before independence, the country was in region namely the Northern region, the western region and the Eastern region and these region were maintain after independence, before a new mid west region was created to make it four region. And every has a leader and a political structure. The independence brings about a cabinet presidential system of government where the president was the head of state and the prime minister was the head of government . The president then was chief Nnamdi azikiwe and the prime minister first and only prime minister was eloquent Alhaji Tafawa Balewa.
Nigeria has seen military run has military ruled 29 out of the 30 years of independence. The first military rule was in January 1 1966, and here begins some real ethnical war in the country sort of. Since may 29 1999 Nigeria has been electing democratic presidents and we'll Nigeria politics is a pointer in Africa, Nigeria has help country like liberia, Cote d' vore, Guinea and recently Mali to bring about peace in the political structure as Nigeria as always make Africa ad the centre of the foreign policy. The part Nigeria played during the apartheid cannot be over emphasis, as Nigeria grants asylums to two former South Africa president this are facts . As Nigeria is the most populous Africa country and Number 7th in the world with over 200 millions of people, the country practice the federal system of government with a bi- camera legislature with 36 states and capital with a unilateral legislature and 774 local governments. Nigeria is rich in so many minerial resources as crude oil is know to be a major part that drives Nigeria export, also before export of oil was discover Nigeria are great farmer and export goods and Nigeria was know as 1 export in Cocoa.
Sadly, the present day Nigeria is kind of more divided over religion, tribe / ethnic, as we as politics and language as more group are seeking exit from the almagamation of the country, terrorism that has seems to affect some part in the north eaatern part of the country since 2009 has the boko haram and ISWAP( Islamic state of West Africa Providence ) is having their huge effect in the country . The Strom is so hard now and every one is at it bream . The state of corruption can't be over look as it speaks volumes also, which has make our reserves deplit alot as the catch phase of our present President President Buhari is that if we don't kill corruption, corruption will kill us.
As well we can have bad people around, Nigeria are always hard work and good welcoming people, and they always like to enjoy the moment!
Well as people will say God bless Nigeria and we hope for the best of the day between this very diverse country.
