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Portuguese and British slave traders established coastal ports

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the town of Bagadry was one of the biggest slave ports

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Christian missionary activities in Southern Nigeria (Igbo, Yoruba) with schools => language and culture were imposed on the people (could also be seen as a means of control), under British control (North: indirect rule with the help of local chiefs (Muslim), South: controlled directly (Christian), began to develop a railway system

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Nigeria was cobbled together by British colonialists Over 200 ethnic groups were brought together into one country

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The Royal Dutch Shell Groupbegan working in the Nigerian oil fields

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There was a general strike in Nigeria

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Oil was discovered in the south-east

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Nigeria gained full independence from Britain

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Gulf Oil Began oil production in Niigeria

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Massacre of thousend Igbo people

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After a mass migration of Igbo people to their homeland they called themselves the Republic of Biafra

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Britain (the former colonial power) supported the federal troops of Nigeria against the Biafran "rebels".

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Nigeria banned all routes to and from the Biafra region. This resulted in starvation of the Biafran population.

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The federal government passes a law that gives all mineral rights to the federal government

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Biafra had to surrender to the Nigerian forces and reintegrated
into Nigeria

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AgipPetroli an Italian oil firm began oil operations at Akaraolu

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Ethno-religous hostility. Radical Islamic group "Book Haram" killed 1000 people in northern Nigeria

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unequal jobs and population ratio in the present time

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unequal jobs and population ratio in the present time

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Not enough jobs for the population = Highly-skilled people and students migrate or "check out" as Nigerians call it, even though Nigeria belongs to the "Next Eleven"  which are African countries who have large economic potential.