Showing posts with label Northern Nigeria Kano Riot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Nigeria Kano Riot. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Why the British discouraged Northern Nigeria from seceding in 1953

Nobody professes to want a Nigerian Pakistan—which would be economic nonsense. Why the British discouraged Northern Nigeria 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.