In November 2002, protests relating to the Miss World beauty contest due to be held in Nigeria spiraled ... the “Miss World riots”—was an article published in the Lagos-based newspaper ...

By the year 1953, southern leaders were ready for Nigeria to become an independent nation. They were pushing for a three-year ...

He worked on the costruction of an open-air market in Ojo Village, twenty miles northwest of the capital of Lagos.) THE BRUTAL civil war in Nigeria is ... massive anti-Ibo riots in Hausa territory ...

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