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Nigeria
Nigeria is having a hard time bringing together the Republic since before it was taken over by Britain in 1914 it was a land of three different regions who didn’t get along with each other due to religion. Their differences kept them from creating a stable nation, but now
Economy
They have great potential for a big agricultural industry and a vast supply of oil, but has had problems utilizing these opportunities. Nigeria is currently attempting to buy out privately owned businesses to profit off of these markets.
Britain creates distrust and disharmony between the north and south not allowing missionaries to educate the north and closing down schools. In 1914, Sokoto, an area with a population of 1.5 million, there were only 19 elementary schools left open.
In ’63 Britain ends its rulership in Nigeria but corruption repetitively keeps Nigeria from advancing as a nation.
They have a pretty low unemployment rate of 3.6% which isn’t bad
1914 Britain merges north and south into a protectorate after occupying Lagos in 1861
1963 Britain gives Nigeria up to be their own government.
Britain starts taking over control of Nigeria by 1884.
They tried stopping the huge amount of slave dealers from the Yoruba and Fulani wars when they abolished slavery in the early portion of the 1800’s
Nigerian slave dealers attack the British navy. 1897 When Britain tried to bring Benin under their control slave traders who operated there massacred them.
Britain establishes a monopoly business of Palm oil in 1884. The missionaries that came with them brought missionaries who would use assimilation by teaching kids into an administrative class that would develop in Nigeria.
Britain took away the zakat tax which was important for Nigeria because it was a tax set up by local government that funded education and facilitated the poor with necessities.
Nigeria is having a hard time bringing together the Republic since before it was taken over by Britain in 1914 it was a land of three different regions who didn’t get along with each other due to religion. Their differences kept them from creating a stable nation, but now
Economy
They have great potential for a big agricultural industry and a vast supply of oil, but has had problems utilizing these opportunities. Nigeria is currently attempting to buy out privately owned businesses to profit off of these markets.
Britain creates distrust and disharmony between the north and south not allowing missionaries to educate the north and closing down schools. In 1914, Sokoto, an area with a population of 1.5 million, there were only 19 elementary schools left open.
In ’63 Britain ends its rulership in Nigeria but corruption repetitively keeps Nigeria from advancing as a nation.
They have a pretty low unemployment rate of 3.6% which isn’t bad
1914 Britain merges north and south into a protectorate after occupying Lagos in 1861
1963 Britain gives Nigeria up to be their own government.
Britain starts taking over control of Nigeria by 1884.
They tried stopping the huge amount of slave dealers from the Yoruba and Fulani wars when they abolished slavery in the early portion of the 1800’s
Nigerian slave dealers attack the British navy. 1897 When Britain tried to bring Benin under their control slave traders who operated there massacred them.
Britain establishes a monopoly business of Palm oil in 1884. The missionaries that came with them brought missionaries who would use assimilation by teaching kids into an administrative class that would develop in Nigeria.
Britain took away the zakat tax which was important for Nigeria because it was a tax set up by local government that funded education and facilitated the poor with necessities.