There is no dispute about the facts of Nigeria’s progeny and birth. The country was created by Britain through Lord Frederick Lugard, and his mistress Lady Flora Shaw who christened it after River Niger. The British had secured imperial control over Northern and Southern Nigeria by a combination o
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