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Free Shipping Day was featured on NBC's Today show, Fox Business, CNN and CBS's Early Show, as well as in The New York Times, Real Simple, Better Homes and Gardens, O, The Oprah Magazine and more than 70 other media outlets. In 2010, the third Free Shipping Day began at 12 a.m. EST on Friday, December 17, and ended at 12 a.m. EST, December 18.
1 October. Next time. 1 October 2024. ( 2024-10-01) Frequency. Annual. Independence Day, known colloquially as October First, is an official national holiday in Nigeria, celebrated on the 1st of October. It marks Nigeria's proclamation of independence from British rule on 1 October 1960. [1]
Date Notes New Year's Day: 1 January Commemorates the beginning of the calendar year. Armed Forces Remembrance Day: 15 January Commemorates the end of the Nigerian Civil War. Workers' Day: 1 May Commemorates Workers' labor movement internationally. Children's Day: 27 May School holiday for Children. Democracy Day: 12 June
Nigeria and her important dates, 1900-1966. 1966. Day to day events in Nigeria : a diary of important happenings in Nigeria from 1960-1970. 1982. Twenty-one years of independence : a calendar of major political and economic events in Nigeria, 1960-1981. 1982. Institut für Afrika-Kunde; Rolf Hofmeier, eds. (1990).
The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose remains date from at least 13,000 BC through early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that is known today as Nigeria, such as the Kingdom of Nri, [1] the Benin Empire, [2] and the Oyo ...
The collapse undermined Songhai's hegemony over the Hausa states and abruptly altered the course of the regional history of the tzu people. Kanem-Bornu reached its apogee under mai Idris Aluma (ca. 1569–1600) during whose reign Kanem was reconquered. The destruction of Songhai left Borno uncontested and until the 18th century, Borno dominated ...
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The history of Nigeria before 1500 has been divided into its prehistory, Iron Age, and flourishing of its kingdoms and states. Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP ( Middle Pleistocene ). [1] Middle Stone Age West Africans likely dwelled continuously in West ...