A Turbulent History of Nigeria

The West African country of Nigeria has a complex and turbulent history marked by colonialism, political instability, and economic challenges. The country also had military coups and long periods of military rule whose era deepened corruption and economic mismanagement.
This episode looks at the full story of Nigeria and its turbulent history. From the Nok civilisation to the 1851 bombardment of Lagos, the 1897 invasion of Benin, the 1902/1903 fall of Sokoto and Kano, the 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates of Nigeria, the country’s eventual independence on October 1, 1960, the military coups, the 30-month brutal Civil War, the June 12, 1993, presidential annulment, the Abacha Years and, of course, the #EndSars protests in October 2020. #HistoryVille
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:30 The Nok Civilisation
00:12:52 The Benin Kingdom
00:24:44 The Fulani Jihad
00:34:27 The 1851 Bombardment of Lagos
00:47:30 The Yoruba Civil Wars
01:05:52 Jaja of Opobo, Nana Olomu
01:23:23 The 1897 British Invasion of Benin
01:37:22 The 1914 Amalgamation of Nigeria
01:54:47 The 1902 British Destruction of Arochukwu
02:12:20 Nigeria in the World Wars
02:20:08 Constitutional Conferences and the 1960 Independence
02:36:03 The First Republic
02:53:33 Operation Wetie
03:22:02 The 1967 Aburi Accord
03:46:10 The 30-Month Civil War
04:05:50 Murtala/Obasanjo: The Second Republic
04:20:18 Buhari/Babangida: The June 12 Annulment
04:37:11 The Abacha Years (1993-1998)
04:56:09 The Obasanjo Presidency (1999-2007)
05:09:44 The Yar'Adua Presidency (2007-2010)
05:31:29 The Doctrine of Necessity
05:46:59 The Jonathan Presidency (2010-2015)
06:15:00 The Buhari Presidency (2015-2023)
06:30:59 The 2020 EndSARS Protest
06:43:06 Outro

[@asabadragon4052]

Love from Spain 🇪🇸 Igbos are good people

[@lolaadesina5362]

🤦🏽‍♀️

[@1am3.142]

😂😂😂

[@FynyeFynye]

Excellent Programme ,very impressive comprehensive history of the many peoples that make up, and make Nigeria such a rich and vibrant country . Well done

[@faxroom3219]

Thank you for posting this. Best wishes

[@godwinamaku172]

Hatred, ethnic interest were promoted in Nigeria leading to backwardness, corruption and difficult governance up till now.

[@jennifereguakhide4176]

Well documented.

[@A.F.U-A]

This is a lot of work! Well done! Nigerian here 🥂

[@MrIbadanBoy]

Can't believe I'm seeing 6 hours + content on Nigeria.. a gem of work here.. kudos to your team

[@HistoryVille]

Thank you.

[@johannesm7259]

​@@HistoryVillethanks for your work. Is there a good recent book you can recommend?

[@HistoryVille]

@@johannesm7259 You are welcome. Not at the moment.

[@karoosogba8900]

This is an insane amount of work, you guys inspire me. 🙏

[@HistoryVille]

Thank you.

[@teddynganga4179]

I always love the soundtrack and the content

[@HistoryVille]

Thank you.

[@oyegbolabashir5943]

I must commend your efforts in producing this firstly for your intellectual sagacity and secondly, for committing the time, resources and energy. Anyone who's into video production would know this is a product of months of painstaking works. As with all works on history, some aggressive counter-narratives would emerge trying to water-down your efforts. Know that you have indeed told a cerebral narrative that would stand the test of time. Good job!

[@HistoryVille]

Thank you for your kind words.

[@zohayerhossain55555]

Love from Bangladesh🇧🇩.Keep doing the good work.

[@HistoryVille]

Thank you so much.

[@Mainika]

Thank you for your efforts You omitted Abdussalmi regeme after the death of Sani Abacha before Obasanjo's....

[@ALLiZMENTAL]

15:11 I love the map. May I ask what year the map is from or who published it ?

[@thomaswilliams4004]

Thanks!

[@HistoryVille]

We appreciate your kind gesture.

[@Adeola_Ori-Ade]

This is real history!!!!

[@user-gk6zk3yp4p]

Your research was full of distortions and biases, yet, I commend your efforts

[@oladunjoyeopeyemi551]

Kindly highlight these distortions for knowledge sake

[@ademolafayemi9093]

@@oladunjoyeopeyemi551 i doubt if there's any. you can still point it out for arguments and credibilty sake

[@okeyasuzu4431]

@@oladunjoyeopeyemi551 The Igbos were deliberately made insignificant and marginal in their narration of origin and civilization of the Africans in what the british imposed as nigeria even though in real and actual fact, the Igbos were the founders and originators of not not just what became of nigeria, but also entire mankind. The narrators anchored and located precolonial nigeria civilization to Nok culture around 500 BCE, but the truth is that what the british called "nok culture" were fragments of domineering Igbo civilzation that dated at least, 3500 BCE starting at Ugwuele, an Igbo community in Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State which houses a Stone Age site that provides evidence that humans inhabited the region as far back as 250,000 years ago. It was the largest hand-axe factory in Nigeria, and possibly in the world. The narrators also conveniently ignored the Nsude Step pyramid at Nsukka which was a replica of ancient Egypt's Step pyramid at Saqqara built by the first human genius, Imhotep and who was believed to be of Igbo descent.. The Nsude pyramid was carbondated around the same time as it more famous Step pyramid of ancient Egypt over 6,000 years ago today. Igboukwu in Anambra state was actually the bronze manufacturing capital of the ancient world and crafted and carved artefacts and monuments thousands of years before there was Nok or Ife and Bini. In fact, Igboukwu was the first site in today's nigeria to be excavated for carbon testing following an accidental siting of treasures in its underbelly by a villager resulting in british archaeologist, Thurstan Shaw digging the area and carting away lorry loads of treasures in artefacts and monuments to britain twice in 1953 and 1959. There are more I can list, but these are three major igbo driven civilizations that were unrivaled and unmatched by any not just in today's nigeria, but entire world. Watching the documentary struck me the extent and degree of revisionism by phobic nigerian establishment at suppressing true Igbo origin and civilization. And it permeates the entire segment of the documentary including the post flag independence crisis and role apportioning. Even Ojukwu was almost demonized for his intelligence and self determination for his people! They conveniently forgot to narrate how nigeria got its name and the real reason for its british imposition. One masked but interesting information is the role of ajai crowther in british colonization of nigeria and its resultant consequence in human, economic and political cost till date.

[@wanderfull5829]

Very nice presentation. I'm breaking up my views

[@Utumeify]

Where is Nigeria now?

[@Vipor3111]

I sat in the same spot and watched the whole thing.

[@HistoryVille]

Wow.

[@AhmedNgonze]

😂😂😂

[@Vipor3111]

@@HistoryVille should I watch every video you made?

[@rasheedshidi189]

Who ever ignores history is a fool enough to repeat the same mistake....

[@brandonhailey3005]

As an African American I found out that most of my ancestry comes from Nigeria, and in specific, the Igbo people 🙏🏽🧡

[@HistoryVille]

That's good to know. 🙏🏼💛

[@fatimaahmed7249]

Sir Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Akintola, Oko tiebo., Awolowo., Azikiwe, Adaka Boro,.All Great men( may their souls rest in peace)! The legacy they all left behind being made into rubbish by all those who came after them! Thanks for this clip❤❤❤

[@faithpromise5216]

Lol corruption don dey before independence 😂😂😂

[@aoajibadeouscaaoa653]

🤔🧐🙄🤨On the surface, this is well teched and orchestrated presentation.. only that, an informed listener will easily pick out the holes in the skewed narrative.. I don't know you or your motives for running history as the content of your channel, but .. as impressive as it looks and sounds, it is lightweight . . e.g your treatment of Benin Empire is inaccurate, the so called "NOK" culture is NOT that, and it is just an inaccurate labelling shenanigan of the superiority complexed archaeologists, the content they've released is scant and shady in order to preserve their world view on history, then, if you mentioned the "Nok" .. you SHOULD have mentioned the GREATEST ÓÒTÙ ÌFẸ Expansion Empire, Ọ́YỌ́ Empire, ÌBÀDÀN Kingdom, BARIBA "BÉRI-BÉRI" extraction, DZÙKÙN /JÙKÙN, TIVI, & LÉ'NPÈÉ (NÚPÉ) Crystalization amongst others since you "treated" the "YÓRÙBÁ civil wars", the few names you picked on to foster as the villains of indigenous participation in the enslavement of The people is lopsided, there are an obvious set of easily spotted family lines by their names who did so much bad in that regard that you've not touched, hint double barrelled western compound names ..🤷🏿‍♂️❗❓ .. did you know and remember to include the fact that a big part of the problems endured by the YÓRÙBÁ are as result of The reprimand meted out on a prince that was caught engaging in enslavement resulting in war and curses, and the caucasia favouring deflection heaping on indigenous complicity in enslavement neglects the fact that the caucasians plied the seas with heavy artillery and sleek gun boats raiding up river for over 200 years before involving the corrupt few when they needed to drag more from far hinterland, The Pope, The Kings and Queens and the Black Cloth wearing people sponsored and drove this via currency and proclamations, .. there's more.. but this is already too long .. ✨👑🧔🏿✨⚖️📖📚📱💻🖥️⏳⌛⏰

[@greatmindwisdom7116]

Well said, thank you

[@DavidNfila]

If we don't do it for ourselves, those who do will always portray their lopsided narratives.

[@user-gk6zk3yp4p]

Honestly, you have made good efforts but your narrative comprised of occasional distortions and biases . Bravo !!!

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

Oh right🫵

[@paulorazulike9284]

Humans, always looking for who to blame for it’s failures. Abeg, Nigeria is what it is today because of Nigerians.

[@Novikedocumentary]

stop talking trash sir

[@paulorazulike9284]

@@Novikedocumentary Ok sir, I will do just that.

[@iduuisuridentity8693]

There's no county called Nigeria but a geographical location created by evil Britain to destroyed humanity 😢. That's just the bitter Truth 😭. Go and read a book by Adewale Ademoyega, Why we struck. 😢. We can continue to deceive ourselves nd fooling the up coming generation 😢that we have been capture. I refuse to be a conquer slave. It's a man mad disaster 😢 upon man.

[@Novikedocumentary]

if Nigeria can seperate or go back to regional system of government it would be great.

[@LifestylesWithAjikeWilliams]

What is sad here and what I always suspected is Africans sold their own people into Slavery which is a sad, sad thing, I know there was tribal warfare, however, to sell your own people into Slavery is tragic. I hope/pray Africans have learned that the life of selling your own people into slavery is tragic, Africans owe as well as Europeans their descendants. I really don't want to continue watching this video any longer, this is painful to watch.

[@zion-985]

Please answer my question. As great as the Benin kingdom, they left everyone in their land to go and beg prince Oromiyan to go and rule over them? Please he was a "banished' prince that the Benins asked to come back to take his position as a king.

[@wahabolusola9408]

Thou this is written but our leader is our problem with religion intolerant leaders acquire wealth the leaves in this world they will not go grave with wealth thank God