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Nigeria has since become an important source of oil and petroleum for China's rapidly growing economy and Nigeria is looking to China for help in achieving high economic growth; China has provided extensive economic, military, and political support. In 1996, as the Clinton administration lobbied in favor of sanctions against Nigeria. China ...
Nigerien crisis (2023–2024) On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger, during which the country's presidential guard removed and detained President Mohamed Bazoum. Subsequently, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, the Commander of the Presidential Guard, proclaimed himself the leader of the country and established the National Council for ...
Eunice Atuejide (born 16 August 1978) is a Nigerian business woman, lawyer, and politician. Atuejide was born and raised in Lagos State Nigeria, although her family originates from Enugu State. She is best known for founding the youth led, technology driven political party known as the National Interest Party (NIP) in Nigeria.
Anti-Igbo sentiment (also known as Igbophobia) encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards the Igbo people. The Igbo people make up all of south-eastern Nigeria and a part of South-South and Middle Belt Nigeria 's geopolitical zones. Igbophobia [1] is observable in critical and hostile behaviour such as political and ...
71 −14 ACN 18 +12 CPC 7 New ANPP 7 −9 Labour 4 +4 DPP 1 +1 APGA 1 +1 Accord 0 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Politics of Nigeria Constitution Human rights Government President (list) Bola Tinubu Vice President Kashim Shettima Cabinet Federal Parastatals Legislature National Assembly of Nigeria Senate President Godswill Akpabio (APC) Deputy President ...
Career Dike was born in Awka, eastern Nigeria. He attended Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone and also Durham University for his BSc, the University of Aberdeen for his MA, and King's College London for his PhD. During the 1960s, as a member of the University of Ibadan's history department, he played a pioneering role in promoting African leadership of scholarly works published on Africa. As the ...
Political developments are particularly significant for the activities of NILDS as an institution of democracy. Democratic governance returned to the country in 1999 against the background of several challenges, one of which was a highly weakened parliamentary institution in Nigeria.
The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons [a] was formed in 1944 [2] by Nnamdi Azikiwe and Herbert Macaulay. [3] Herbert Macaulay was its first president, while Azikiwe was its first secretary. [4] The NCNC was made up of a rather long list of nationalist parties, cultural associations, and labor movements that joined to form NCNC.