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Brief History. Five hundred years before Christ, there arose in central Nigeria a culture that was among the most advanced and richest of the ancient world and it stretched from Africa to Europe and the Middle East. Portugal was the first European power to establish trading stations in the 1400s, but control was taken over by Britain shortly. The tide changed after Britain abolished slavery and sought to eliminate slave trading. In 1861, Nigeria was made a British colony and in 1906, land east of the Niger River was incorporated into the colony. Slowly, Britain began to prepare the country for self-rule and in 1999, the first popularly-elected president in 16 years came into office.

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Nigeria: Ghana - Profiting Where Country Loses (AllAfrica.com)
Lagos ? All things being equal, United States President, Mr. Barrack Obama, will arrive in Ghana, a neighbouring West African country on July 10, 2009 on a two-day working visit. Obama's visit to Ghana will be his first official visit to Africa since he assumed office last November.

Nigeria: News Analysis - Labour Protest Avoidable (AllAfrica.com)
Yesterday's protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and the Civil Society Coalition was focussed on three main issues: the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, demand for a national minimum wage and the haphazard implementation of the Uwais Electoral Reform Committee (ERC) by the Federal Government.

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Six U.S. counties become majority minority (UPI)
WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- Six U.S. counties became majority-minority between 2007 and 2008, meaning half their populations were other than single race, the U.S. Census Bureau said.