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the Portuguese sailors start trading on the coast
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the British come to West Africa, lots of Nigerians are sent to America for the slave trade
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the British stop all slavery
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a war breaks out in the south of Nigeria
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Nigerians discover oil
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a civil war begins and one million people are said to be dead by 1970
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the capital of Nigeria is changed from Lagos to Abuja
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Olusegun Obasanjo is elected president
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the first Nigerian satillite is launched into space
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Umaru Yar'Adua is elected the new president
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vice president Goodluck Jonathan is elected president after Umaru Yar'Adua dies
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many Nigerians are pronounced dead after Norther riots break out over the election of the new president Goodluck Jonathan
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Iran shares nuclear technology with Nigeria
