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In the IANA time zone database, Nigeria is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Lagos. Lagos is Nigeria's capital city. "NG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Nigeria directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [8]
Biafra became a topic in the 1968 United States presidential election and on 9 September 1968, future Republican president Richard Nixon called for Lyndon B. Johnson to take action in helping Biafra, stating: Until now, efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of central government of Nigeria to pursue total and ...
Due to the large size of the British company rule in Rhodesia, it meant Rhodesia observed three standards of time: UTC+01:30, +2:15 and +2:30; this was problematic for the railway system, so on 1 August 1899 the standard time zones UTC+02:30 was adopted nationwide, [10] consequently resulting in this being the first standard time in Africa.
Biafra (/ b i ˈ æ f r ə / bee-AF-rə), [4] officially the Republic of Biafra, [5] was a partially recognised state in West Africa [6] [7] that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970. [8] Its territory consisted of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, predominantly inhabited by the Igbo ethnic group. [1]
Time in office 1 C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933–2011) 30 May 1967 8 January 1970 2 years, 223 days Military: Fled to Ivory Coast at the end of the Nigerian Civil War [2] 2 Philip Effiong (1925–2003) 8 January 1970 15 January 1970 7 days Military: Surrendered Biafra to Nigeria [3]
Nigeria Biafra: Victory: Midwest Invasion of 1967 (1967) Nigeria Biafra: Victory: First Invasion of Onitsha (1967) Nigeria Biafra: Biafran victory: Operation Tiger Claw (1967) Nigeria Biafra: Nigerian victory: Fall of Enugu (1967) Nigeria Biafra: Victory: Second Invasion of Onitsha (1968) Nigeria Biafra: Victory: Abagana Ambush (1968) Nigeria ...
Nigeria nicked their group-stage meeting 1-0, but we fancy the Ivorians to edge it this time. Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
The Republic of Benin was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state in West Africa that existed for seven hours in 1967. It was established on 19 September 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War as a puppet state of Biafra, following its occupation of Nigeria's Mid-Western Region, and named after its capital, Benin City, with Albert Nwazu Okonkwo as its head of government.