Sacred Nigerian statues were scheduled to be auctioned off in Paris, but a Nigerian commission has demanded that the event be called off on the grounds that the artifacts were stolen. The artworks were lawfully acquired, according to Christie’s auction house, and the sale will take place on Monday. In recent years, French courts have…
1. The British arrived in Nigeria in 1851, took control of Lagos in 1861, and established the Oil River Protectorate in 1884. 2. On January 8, 1897, Flora Louisa Shaw, a British journalist, novelist, and wife of Lord Frederick Lugard, proposed the name “Nigeria” for the British Protectorate on the Niger. 3. The first Federal…
An image of the former military president Ibrahim Babangida riding in a carriage with Queen Elizabeth II during his 1989 visit to London can be found below.