1953 Kano Riot Kano riot was a political crisis mainly between northerners and southerners in ancient city of Kano in May 1953. The nature of the riot was clashes between Northerners who were opposed to self-government and Southerners made up of the Yorubas and the Igbos under the aegis of the Action Group (AG) and the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC) who supported self-government for Nigeria in 1956. The political riot lasted for four days. Many lives were lost and many persons were wounded. The Causes of 1953 Kano Riot The immediate cause of the crisis was the motion of self-government moved in the Federal House of Representatives by a member of Action Group (AG) Chief Anthony Enahoro in 1953 on the need for Nigeria to attain self-government in 1956 from British imperial masters. The Northern representatives under the aegis of the Northern People's Congress (NPC)...
Human Rights First, rights refer to the moral or legal entitlement over something. Human rights are rights inherent in all human beings by virtue of being human. Everybody is entitled to enjoy them regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or status. Human rights can also be explained as privilege to be enjoyed by human beings. Such rights include right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom from slavery, freedom of religion, right to education, right to personal liberty, freedom from torture, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination. Furthermore, Heywood (2007:326), seem to have summarized what human rights entail when he rightly observed thus: "Human rights are rights to which people are entitled by virtue of being human; they are a modern and secular version of natural rights. Human rights are ‘universal’ in the sense that they belong to all humans rather than to members of any particular ...
8 STEPS IN BOOK WRITING BY EZE ANDREW OFORMA [ THE FOUNDER AND NATIONAL COORDINATOR OF YOUNG AFRICAN WRITERS LEAGUE] Book writing is so multifaceted and laborious. Hence, everything has tactics and need to be well planned . If you plan and programme yourself, you will come to understand that there is enjoy in book writing. The followings are the basic steps one has to follow before he/she can gallantly answer an AUTHOR. STEP 1- planning stage: this is the must critical part of book writing. It is a stage in which you start to think whether you have the skill of writ ing, and which area to write about. STEP 2- summarize your idea: here you can summarize you idea in two or more sentences. That is, when you finally concluded that you can write something which you have to mention. STEP 3- outline stage; here you detail your plan. Under this stage you sketchly outline you table of contents which will guide you. STEP 4- preparing for the first draft; under this stage you ...
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