The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose remains date from at least 13,000 BC through early civilizations such as the Nok ...

The area began to come under British control in 1861 and was made a British colony in 1914. Nigeria gained independence in 1960 and became a republic in 1963.

The History of Nigeria from about 1849 until it attained independence in 1960 is largely the story of the transformational impact of the British on the people ...

Many indigenous polities emerged in Nigeria before the British took control in the late 19th century. In the north there were several large and developed ...

The Lagos Colony came into existence in 1861 following the conquest of Lagos by the British. The colony was administered by a Governor with a legislative ...

Therefore, much of the fictional writing of novelists and dramatists focused on Nigeria's pre- colonial past and incorporated distinctly indigenous symbolism.

Nigeria has been home to several indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms since the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization in the 15th century BC ...

The history of Nigeria can be traced back to as early as 11,000 BC when a number of ancient African communities inhabited the area that now makes Nigeria. The ...

In the 19th Century, the British had conquered the different parts of the present Nigeria at different times, and established control and authority over them.

Long before the creation of the entity called Nigeria, the various peoples that existed independently then had established their own indigenous systems of ...