This thread is intended to be a quick reference thread on Nigeria's political history since Independence (1st October 1960)
Nnamdi Azikiwe is sworn in as first President after Nigeria becomes a republic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPgbteWcBCY?version=3
New Nigeria (video clip)
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//BHC_ITN/1960/10/12/X12106001/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
Nigerian Prime Minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4twfjk3hoA4?version=3
NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS 1st Oct 1963
Nigerian Elections 1960
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4th Oct 1960 - ITN News (video clip)
NIGERIAN PARLIAMENT OPENED (video clip)
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1960/10/04/FS041060004/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
Abubakar Balewa Stadium built to olympic-standards, opens in Kaduna
A NEW SPORTS STADIUM, BUILT TO OLYMPIC STANDARDS, WAS OPENED DURING THE WEEKEND BY THE PRIME MINISTER, ALHAJI SIR AHMADU BELLO, AT KADUNA, IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.
THE STADIUM, WHICH BEARS THE NAME OF THE PRIME MINISTER, HAS ROOM FOR MORE THAN 30,000 SPECTATORS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO CAN BE SEATED ON THE ULTRA-MODERN GRANDSTAND. BUILDING OPERATIONS BEGAN JUST UNDER TWO YEARS AGO, AND COST GBP800,000.
TO MARK THE OPENING DAY ON SUNDAY, A NORTHERN NIGERIAN FOOTBALL TEAM PLAYED A VISITING TEAM FROM QUEEN'S PARK, GLASGOW, IN SCOTLAND. THE VISITING TEAM WON, 3-0.
PRESENTATION OF THE CUP TO THE WINNERS, AND SOUVENIRS TO ALL THE PLAYERS, WAS MADE BY SIR KASHIM IBRAHIM, GOVERNOR OF NORTHERN NIGERIA.
THE STADIUM IS FULLY EQUIPPED BY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS WITH A REGULATION ATHLETICS TRACK, AND PRESS AND TELEVISION GALLERIES. LATER IT IS PLANNED TO ADD A SWIMMING POOL AND GYMNASIUMS..
Nnamdi Azikiwe is sworn in as first President after Nigeria becomes a republic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPgbteWcBCY?version=3
New Nigeria (video clip)
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//BHC_ITN/1960/10/12/X12106001/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
Nigerian Prime Minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4twfjk3hoA4?version=3
NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS 1st Oct 1963
Nigerian Elections 1960
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKXgVDCDdo?version=3&feature=player_detailpage[/flash]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-ns6R8llM?version=3&feature=player_detailpage[/flash]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GtJ6GcrmuU?version=3&feature=player_detailpage[/flash]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPO2bB1Jso?version=3&feature=player_detailpage[/flash]
4th Oct 1960 - ITN News (video clip)
NIGERIAN PARLIAMENT OPENED (video clip)
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1960/10/04/FS041060004/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
Abubakar Balewa Stadium built to olympic-standards, opens in Kaduna
A NEW SPORTS STADIUM, BUILT TO OLYMPIC STANDARDS, WAS OPENED DURING THE WEEKEND BY THE PRIME MINISTER, ALHAJI SIR AHMADU BELLO, AT KADUNA, IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.
THE STADIUM, WHICH BEARS THE NAME OF THE PRIME MINISTER, HAS ROOM FOR MORE THAN 30,000 SPECTATORS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO CAN BE SEATED ON THE ULTRA-MODERN GRANDSTAND. BUILDING OPERATIONS BEGAN JUST UNDER TWO YEARS AGO, AND COST GBP800,000.
TO MARK THE OPENING DAY ON SUNDAY, A NORTHERN NIGERIAN FOOTBALL TEAM PLAYED A VISITING TEAM FROM QUEEN'S PARK, GLASGOW, IN SCOTLAND. THE VISITING TEAM WON, 3-0.
PRESENTATION OF THE CUP TO THE WINNERS, AND SOUVENIRS TO ALL THE PLAYERS, WAS MADE BY SIR KASHIM IBRAHIM, GOVERNOR OF NORTHERN NIGERIA.
THE STADIUM IS FULLY EQUIPPED BY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS WITH A REGULATION ATHLETICS TRACK, AND PRESS AND TELEVISION GALLERIES. LATER IT IS PLANNED TO ADD A SWIMMING POOL AND GYMNASIUMS..
12 September 1963 - ITN News
CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO JAILED FOR TEN YEARS
NIGERIA'S ACTION GROUP LEADER AND FORMER PREMIER OF THE WESTERN REGION, CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO, HAS BEEN JAILED FOR TEN YEARS.A LAGOS COURT YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) FOUND HIM GUILTY OF PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
SEVENTEEN OTHERS GOT PRISON SENTENCES RANGING FROM TWO TO SEVEN YEARS.THREE OTHERS WERE ACQUITTED.ALL HAD PLEADED NOT GUILTY.
CHIEF AWOLOWO'S DEPUTY, CHIEF ENAHORO, WHO WAS DEPORTED FROM BRITAIN TO FACE TRIAL, WAS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS ON SATURDAY WHEN CONVICTED OF SIMILAR TREASON CHARGES.
CHIEF AWOLOWO, SPEAKING FROM THE DOCK BEFORE SENTENCE WAS PASSED, COMMENTED: "IT IS AN IRONY OF HISTORY THAT AS ONE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE I HAVE SPENT ALMOST HALF OF NIGERIA'S THREE-YEAR INDEPENDENCE IN CONFINEMENT."
THE CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST HIM WERE TREASONABLE FELONY, CONSPIRACY AND FIREARMS' POSSESSION.
LAST NIGHT POLICE USED TEAR GAS AND TRUNCHEONS TO BREAK UP GROUPS OF THE CHIEF'S SUPPORTERS.NEAR THE MAIN PRISON TEAR GAS WAS ALSO USED TO DISPERSE CROWDS.SOME ARRESTS WERE MADE.THE TRIAL WAS CLIMAXED BY THE MOUNTING OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST SECURITY OPERATIONS IN NIGERIA'S HISTORY.
CHIEF ENAHORO ON TRIAL FOR TREASON (18 May 1963)
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1963/05/18/FS180563002/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
June 1963
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1963/06/25/FS250663003/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
8th September 1963 - ITN News
CHIEF ANTHONY ENAHORO, DEPUTY-LEADER OF NIGERIA'S PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION IMPRISONED FOR TREASON
CHIEF ANTHONY ENAHORO, 40-YEAR-OLD DEPUTY-LEADER OF NIGERIA'S PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION, WAS SENTENCED IN LAGOS YESTERDAY (SATURDAY) TO 15 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT FOR PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT BY FORCE.HIS LAWYERS STATED THEY'LL APPEAL AGAINST THE VERDICT.
CHIEF ENAHORO APPEARED UNMOVED WHEN THE JUDGE FOUND HIM GUILTY.FIFTEEN FEET AWAY HIS WIFE HELEN WIPED A TEAR FROM HER EYE.OUTSIDE IN THE COURTYARD HER SMALL DAUGHTER PLAYED WITH RELATIVES.THEIR TWO SONS, AGED 7 AND 8, ARE IN ENGLAND ATTENDING SCHOOL.
CHIEF ENAHORO'S TRIAL BEGAN IN LAGOS ON JUNE 24 AND ENDED ON AUGUST 1.AFTER TWO-AND-A-HALF HOUR JUDGMENT YESTERDAY HANDED DOWN BY MRS.SIGISMUND LAMBO HE WAS FOUND GUILTY ON THREE COUNTS: TREASONABLE FELONY, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FELONY AND CONTRAVENING THE FIREARMS ACT.
AMONG THE PROSECUTION'S EVIDENCE WAS THE CLAIM THAT THE CHIEF HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO SELECT 200 ACTIONS GROUP YOUTHS FOR MILITARY TRAINING OUTSIDE NIGERIA FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT.
STRICT SECURITY MEASURES WERE IN FORCE FOR YESTERDAY'S COURT JUDGEMENT.OUTSIDE THE COURT MORE THAN 200 STEEL-HELMETED RIOT POLICE, EQUIPPED WITH AUTOMATIC RIFLES AND TEAR GAS PISTOLS, CORDONED OFF THE STREETS AND DROVE BACK THE CURIOUS,
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SENTENCE THE CONVICTED CHIEF WAS WHISKED BACK TO KIRIKIRI JAIL UNDER A STRONG MOTORISED ESCORT.
(CHIEF ENAHORO WAS DEPORTED FROM BRITAIN LAST MAY TO FACE TRIAL AFTER A FIVE-MONTH LEGAL BATTLE IN BRITISH COURTS AND PARLIAMENT TO PREVENT HIS EXTRADITION.HE WAS ARRESTED IN LONDON WHILE ON A VISIT TO HIS TWO SONS.THE LABOUR AND LIBERAL PARTIES OPPOSED THE DEPORTATION ORDER WHILE THE RULING PARTY, THE CONSERVATIVES, WERE DIVIDED ON THE ISSUE.EARLY REACTION IN BRITAIN TO THE SENTENCE HAS BEEN CRITICAL.MOST HAVE CONSIDERED IT "EXCESSIVE".
Below Lagos 1963
CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO JAILED FOR TEN YEARS
NIGERIA'S ACTION GROUP LEADER AND FORMER PREMIER OF THE WESTERN REGION, CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO, HAS BEEN JAILED FOR TEN YEARS.A LAGOS COURT YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) FOUND HIM GUILTY OF PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
SEVENTEEN OTHERS GOT PRISON SENTENCES RANGING FROM TWO TO SEVEN YEARS.THREE OTHERS WERE ACQUITTED.ALL HAD PLEADED NOT GUILTY.
CHIEF AWOLOWO'S DEPUTY, CHIEF ENAHORO, WHO WAS DEPORTED FROM BRITAIN TO FACE TRIAL, WAS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS ON SATURDAY WHEN CONVICTED OF SIMILAR TREASON CHARGES.
CHIEF AWOLOWO, SPEAKING FROM THE DOCK BEFORE SENTENCE WAS PASSED, COMMENTED: "IT IS AN IRONY OF HISTORY THAT AS ONE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE I HAVE SPENT ALMOST HALF OF NIGERIA'S THREE-YEAR INDEPENDENCE IN CONFINEMENT."
THE CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST HIM WERE TREASONABLE FELONY, CONSPIRACY AND FIREARMS' POSSESSION.
LAST NIGHT POLICE USED TEAR GAS AND TRUNCHEONS TO BREAK UP GROUPS OF THE CHIEF'S SUPPORTERS.NEAR THE MAIN PRISON TEAR GAS WAS ALSO USED TO DISPERSE CROWDS.SOME ARRESTS WERE MADE.THE TRIAL WAS CLIMAXED BY THE MOUNTING OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST SECURITY OPERATIONS IN NIGERIA'S HISTORY.
CHIEF ENAHORO ON TRIAL FOR TREASON (18 May 1963)
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1963/05/18/FS180563002/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
June 1963
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1963/06/25/FS250663003/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date
8th September 1963 - ITN News
CHIEF ANTHONY ENAHORO, DEPUTY-LEADER OF NIGERIA'S PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION IMPRISONED FOR TREASON
CHIEF ANTHONY ENAHORO, 40-YEAR-OLD DEPUTY-LEADER OF NIGERIA'S PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION, WAS SENTENCED IN LAGOS YESTERDAY (SATURDAY) TO 15 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT FOR PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT BY FORCE.HIS LAWYERS STATED THEY'LL APPEAL AGAINST THE VERDICT.
CHIEF ENAHORO APPEARED UNMOVED WHEN THE JUDGE FOUND HIM GUILTY.FIFTEEN FEET AWAY HIS WIFE HELEN WIPED A TEAR FROM HER EYE.OUTSIDE IN THE COURTYARD HER SMALL DAUGHTER PLAYED WITH RELATIVES.THEIR TWO SONS, AGED 7 AND 8, ARE IN ENGLAND ATTENDING SCHOOL.
CHIEF ENAHORO'S TRIAL BEGAN IN LAGOS ON JUNE 24 AND ENDED ON AUGUST 1.AFTER TWO-AND-A-HALF HOUR JUDGMENT YESTERDAY HANDED DOWN BY MRS.SIGISMUND LAMBO HE WAS FOUND GUILTY ON THREE COUNTS: TREASONABLE FELONY, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FELONY AND CONTRAVENING THE FIREARMS ACT.
AMONG THE PROSECUTION'S EVIDENCE WAS THE CLAIM THAT THE CHIEF HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO SELECT 200 ACTIONS GROUP YOUTHS FOR MILITARY TRAINING OUTSIDE NIGERIA FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT.
STRICT SECURITY MEASURES WERE IN FORCE FOR YESTERDAY'S COURT JUDGEMENT.OUTSIDE THE COURT MORE THAN 200 STEEL-HELMETED RIOT POLICE, EQUIPPED WITH AUTOMATIC RIFLES AND TEAR GAS PISTOLS, CORDONED OFF THE STREETS AND DROVE BACK THE CURIOUS,
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SENTENCE THE CONVICTED CHIEF WAS WHISKED BACK TO KIRIKIRI JAIL UNDER A STRONG MOTORISED ESCORT.
(CHIEF ENAHORO WAS DEPORTED FROM BRITAIN LAST MAY TO FACE TRIAL AFTER A FIVE-MONTH LEGAL BATTLE IN BRITISH COURTS AND PARLIAMENT TO PREVENT HIS EXTRADITION.HE WAS ARRESTED IN LONDON WHILE ON A VISIT TO HIS TWO SONS.THE LABOUR AND LIBERAL PARTIES OPPOSED THE DEPORTATION ORDER WHILE THE RULING PARTY, THE CONSERVATIVES, WERE DIVIDED ON THE ISSUE.EARLY REACTION IN BRITAIN TO THE SENTENCE HAS BEEN CRITICAL.MOST HAVE CONSIDERED IT "EXCESSIVE".
Below Lagos 1963
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