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Moment Pres Buhari Arrived Abuja Eagles Square In Armored S550 Mercedes Benz Car When (PHOTOS)
President Muhammadu Buhari participated in Nigeria’s 60th Diamond anniversary. The president is the chief host of the event came into the Eagle’s Square in this armoured S550 Mercedes Benz.
President Buhari also inspected the guard of honour mount in his honour in the presidential carriage Mercedes Benz open-air carriage vehicle.
Nigeria has been home to a number of ancient and indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms over the millennia.
The modern state originated from British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century and took its present territorial shape with the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914 by Lord Frederick Lugard.
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The British set up administrative and legal structures while practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms; Nigeria became a formally independent federation on October 1, 1960. It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970.
It thereafter alternated between democratically-elected civilian governments and military dictatorships until it achieved a stable democracy in 1999, with the 2015 presidential election marking the first time an incumbent president had lost re-election.
A multinational state, Nigeria is inhabited by more than 250 ethnic groups with over 500 distinct languages all identifying with a wide variety of cultures.
The three largest ethnic groups are the Hausa–Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the west, and Igbo in the east; comprising over 60% of the total population.
These are photos taken from Eagles Square in Abuja.
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