Special Report

Nigeria@60: In search of a strong, united country

With soldiers in the back seat

Nigeria in the next 60 years

There was something resonant and promising in the way the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on October 1, 1960 at the Tinubu Square in Lagos,…

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With soldiers in the back seat
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Nigeria would have been great if first generation of leaders survived beyond 1966 – Prof. Hamman
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October 1, 2020

Division not solution to Nigeria’s problems – Abdulsalami

Former head of state, retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar

October 1, 2020

Judiciary battles political interference, corruption, poor funding

October 1, 2020

Nigeria’s independence: 6 images from 6 decades

After 16 years of brutal military rule, interrupted by 82 days of a civilian government in 1993, democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999. Gen Abdulsalam Abubakar transferred power to Olusegun Obasanjo, who had won nationwide elections. The 1990s was a packed decade in Nigeria’s political history - including the annulment of an election by the military in 1993, the global condemnation of the 1995 hanging of nine environmental activists, among them Ken Saro-Wiwa by military ruler Gen Sani Abacha, and Abacha’s own death in 1998. The handover to democratic rule was seen by many as a culmination of these three events. The 21 years since have seen the longest uninterrupted republic in Nigeria’s history.

October 1, 2020

The journey so far

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

October 1, 2020

How we celebrated Nigeria’s independence – Retired teacher

Mrs Comfort Adeyinka Agbi, a retired primary school teacher born in 1944