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Development of Political Parties in Nigeria | Week 15 Topics
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Development of Political Parties in Nigeria: Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), The Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) | Week 25 Topics1 Quiz
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Development of Political Parties in Nigeria: The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), Action Group (AG), The Northern People Congress (NPC) | Week 36 Topics1 Quiz
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Development of Political Parties in Nigeria: Minority Parties (NEPU, UMBC) | Week 43 Topics1 Quiz
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Second Republic Political Parties: NPN, UPN, NPP | Week 56 Topics1 Quiz
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Second Republic Political Parties: GNPP, PRP AND NAP | Week 64 Topics1 Quiz
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Third Republic & Fourth Republic Political Parties | Week 78 Topics1 Quiz
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Major Political Crises in Nigeria: Kano Riot, Census Crisis, Action Group Crisis | Week 83 Topics1 Quiz
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Military Rule in Nigeria | Week 108 Topics1 Quiz
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Military Rule Continues: 1985 - 1993 | Week 114 Topics1 Quiz
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E-government | Week 123 Topics
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- Causes of the Nigerian Civil War
- Remote Causes of Nigerian Civil War
- Immediate Causes of the Civil War
- Efforts Made to Prevent Nigeria's Civil War
- Decisions of the Aburi Meeting in Ghana
- Effects of Nigeria's Civil War
- How to Prevent Any Civil War
Civil War: A war between groups of people in the same country e.g. Nigerian Civil War.
The Nigerian Civil War started on the 30th of May 1967 and ended on the 15th of January 1970. The main cause of the civil war was the power tussle within the Nigerian Military between Ojukwu and Gowon.
Causes of Nigerian Civil War:
Remote Causes of Nigerian Civil War:
- One of the remote causes of the Nigerian Civil War was unhealthy ethnic rivalry among the ethnic groups.
- Political Parties were based on ethnic groupings and these political parties were antagonistic to one another. e.g. NPC – Northern Party, AG – Western Party, NCNC – Eastern-based political party.
- The introduction of DecreeA decree is an official order given by a government or by a person with power. For example, the president can issue a decree making a particular day a national holiday.... More No. 34 of 1966 (Unification decree) by the military head of state, General J. T. U. Aguiyi Ironsi, did not go down well with some regions.
- Another remote cause was the census crisis of 1962/63. Some regions did
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