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Historical Timeline for Nigeria - A chronology of key events
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Nigeria Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
1960 former British colony, Nigeria gains independence.
1966 a coup d'état imposes on power General Ironsi, an Ibo; his assassination a few months later sparked inter-ethnic riots.
1967-1970 Biafra war triggered by the secession of the Ibo in the east of the country. The war kills more than a million.
1973-1985 succession of military coups.
1985 dictatorship of General Ibrahim Babangida.
1993 cancellation by the army of the presidential election won in June by Moshood Abiola. In November, General Sani Abacha took power and banned the opposition.
1994 Moshood Abiola is arrested.
1995 the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigns against oil exploitation in the Niger Delta, which destroys the habitat of the Ogoni population, is executed, along with eight other Ogoni officials after an unfair trial. Nigeria is excluded from the Commonwealth.
1998 Moshood Abiola dies in prison
1999 return to democracy; Olusegun Obasanjo is elected president.
October 2000 the adoption of Sharia, the Islamic law, in several northern states, leads to riots between Christians and Muslims which claim several hundred victims.
September 2001 intercommunal clashes in the center of the country kill several hundred people.
January 2002 the explosion of an ammunition depot in Lagos, the capital, left more than 600 dead and thousands missing.
November 2002 clashes between Christians and Muslims kill nearly 220 in Kaduna (north)
April 2003 Olusegun Obasanjo is re-elected with 61% of the vote. The opposition and observers question the regularity of the ballot. His party wins the legislative elections.
May 2004 the attack by Christian militiamen on a Muslim farming village west of the capital Abuja leads to clashes that kill 630 people.
September-October 2004 a rebel movement from the Niger Delta threatens the state with all-out war. June 2006
2008
June President Yar'Adua announces that the Shell oil group will leave Ogoni country, in the Niger Delta region, by the end of the year. August 2008
September a military operation against the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) causes renewed violence in the region. November

2009[edit | edit source]

May the army and the police launch a vast offensive against the rebel groups in the delta. The Mend declares all-out war. Trial against Shell in the 1995 hanging death of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in US Federal Court in New York.
June publication of an Amnesty International report
that pollution in the Niger Delta has deprived tens of millions of people of their most basic right to food, water and health.
July the release of one of the leaders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Henry Okah, is followed by a truce. The attack on a police station in the state of Bauchi, in the north of the country, by Islamists, called Boko Haram in the Hausa
August the government offers an amnesty to insurgents in the Niger Delta who would lay down their arms.
November Head of State Umaru Yar'Adua leaves the country for emergency hospitalization in Saudi Arabia. His prolonged absence worries the country.

2010[edit | edit source]

January Federal High Court orders Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to exercise the powers of the president, hospitalized since November 23 in Saudi Arabia, until his return. Clashes between Christians and Muslims cause at least 200 deaths in the region of Jos.
February the two chambers of Parliament appoint the vice-president to act as interim head of the country. President Umaru Yar'Adua returns to Nigeria on February 23, but his health remains uncertain.
March Christian villages in the Jos region are again attacked by "Fulani herders". The death toll is at least 200.
May death of President Umaru Yar'Adua Interim President Goodluck Jonathan succeeds him.

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