Nigeria

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    1979 - 2015

  • Alhaji Shehu Shagari elected

  • Major-General Muhammad Buhari seizes power

  • Ibrahim Babangida seizes power, curtails political activity

  • Elections canceled, forecasted victor Chief Moshood Abiola

  • Interim National Gov't takes over

  • General Sani Abacha seizes power

  • Abiola arrested after declaring himself rightful president

  • Ken Saro-Wiwa hanged. EU imposes sanctions, Commonwealth suspends Nigerian membership

  • Abacha dies, succeeded by Abubakar

  • Abiola dies on the date of his release under suspicious circumstances

  • Olsegun Obasanjo elected president

  • Adoption of Sharia law in North, resulting in tensions and violence between Muslim/Christian populations

  • NEPAD

  • First legislative elections since end of military rule in 1999

  • Olusegun Obasanjo elected for second term, "Serious irregularities"

  • Nigeria's first satellite launched

  • Paris Club of rich lenders agrees to write off 20 billion of Nigeria's debt

  • Debt to Paris Club paid off

  • Senate rejects proposed changes to the constitution which would have allowed President Obasanjo to stand for a third term

  • Umaru Yar'Adua becomes President

  • Nineteen opposition parties unite to compete against the governing People's Democratic Party

  • Boko Haram, hundreds dead

  • Yar'Adua dies. VP Goodluck Jonathan becomes President.

  • Goodluck Jonathan wins presidential elections

  • Boko Haram kidnaps more than 200 girls from a boarding school