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The British ended the slave trade in 1807.

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In 1914, the Nigerian legislative council was established by the National Council of British West Africa and they demanded half of those members to be Africans.

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The British established the Oil River Protectorate in 1884 in the Oil Rivers of Nigeria, which allowed them to economically benefit from Nigeria's natural resources.

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Nigeria was colonized by the British during the Berlin Conference in 1885.

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After Nigeria's independence, the began developing an economic plan. The government began to make abrupt changes because more than half of the Nigerian population worked in agriculture.

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The British adopted a divide-and-rule policy that separated Nigerian groups from one another. In the South the British created a political hierarchy where they ruled through people who held traditional positions of authority or not.

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Europeans took greater control over the production of commodities. Their main goal was to provide maximum economic benefit to the colonizing power at the lowest possibility prices.

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The British combined two separate ethnic groups into one country. Northern Nigeria was where the Mulisms lived and southern Nigeria was where the Christians resided. This made cultural conflicts inevitable.

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Nigeria gained its independence on October 1st, 1960. World War 2 loosened the hold on imperial powers and the British noticed this and tried to steer Nigeria towards a self governance model. Despite now being free, there was still a conflict as the group that came to power (NPC) was largely Muslim and the group that opposed it (NCNC) were the Christians and Igbo.