ethnic groups, number of, 25
exports/revenues from, 47
on Failed States Index, 250
Fourth Republic (2004), 248–49
independence, transition to, 48–51
independence fiasco, artists’ reaction to, 52–53
Indigenization Decree (1974), 234, 236–37
interethnic tensions, 46–47, 74–78, 123
Islamist terrorism in, 250–51
majority groups of, 47. See also Igbo people; Yoruba people
military
and coup of 1966, 78–82
versus political class, 71–72
minorities, regions of, 47
nationalists, 44–48
National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), 88
Northern dominance, 46–47, 50–52, 65, 69
Northern group, 51. See also Hausa/Fulani people
oil industry. See Oil production
People’s Redemption Party, 244
post-independence crises, 64
post-war status of, 243–53
prime minister, first, 50, 51–52
questions for better future, 252–53
sedition, British penalties for, 47
Southern group, 46–47
Sovereign National Conference, 252–53
university educated, position of, 25–26, 48–49
Western group, 44–45, 47, 52, 72
Nigeria-Biafra war