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British officers inspecting Nigerian recruits. Nigeria participated in World War II as a British colony in September 1939, following the government's acceptance of the United Kingdom's declaration of war on Nazi Germany [1] and entering the war on the side of the Allies. It was a key country in the African theatre, a critical part of the Allied ...
Ita Ekpenyon was born in Creek Town in Calabar, Nigeria, in 1899. [1] His daughter Oku Ekpenyon stated that he was a headteacher in Nigeria before going to London in 1928. [1] [2] Ekpenyon lived in Great Titchfield Street, near Oxford Circus, and studied law, one of a small community of 15,000 black Africans in London at this time. [3]
In the immediate post-World War II period, Nigeria benefited from a favourable trade balance. Although per capita income in the country as a whole remained low by international standards, rising incomes among salaried personnel and burgeoning urbanization expanded consumer demand for imported goods.
British Nigeria; France French Equatorial Africa; German Empire. German Kamerun; Allied Victory: Bussa Rebellion (1915) Nigeria British Empire: Stalemate: Adubi War (1918) British Empire. British Nigeria; Egba rebels Victory: East African Campaign (World War II) [1] [circular reference] (1940–1943) Allied Powers: British Empire United Kingdom ...
Creation of Southern Nigeria Civil Service Union; later, Nigerian Civil Servants' Union. [2] 1914: January: Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated into Nigeria. British Crown gained monopoly rights over mineral extraction. Nigerian soldiers fight under British command in World War I. [2] 1918: The Adubi War is fought in Egba ...
British colonial Nigeria in World War II. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. P. Nigerian people of World War II (13 P) W.
Princess Adenrele Ademola or Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola (born 1916) was a Nigerian princess and nurse. [1] [2] She trained as a nurse in London in the 1930s, and remained working there through World War II. [3] She was the subject of a film, Nurse Ademola, made by the Colonial Film Unit and now considered lost. [4]
Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), [2] commonly referred to as Zik of Africa, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who served as the 3rd and first black governor-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966). [3]