Showing posts with label Kano Riots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kano Riots. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

"Nobody professes to want a Nigerian Pakistan—which would be economic nonsense." Why the Bristish discouraged Northern Nigerian from seceding in 1953

Nobody professes to want a Nigerian Pakistan—which would be economic nonsense. Why the Bristish discouraged Northern Nigerian from seceding in 1953 
The account of The Spectator, a London based newspaper of the infamous Kano Riot of 1953, provides an incontrovertible proof of why the British government discouraged the North from seceding from their artificially-created Nigeria.