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| 1914 |
| | British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony | |
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| 1958 |
| | Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London | |
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| 1960 |
| | Niger becomes independent, with Hamani Diori as the new nation's first president | |
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| 1960 |
| | Nigeria wins independence, with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa as prime minister, but its stability is threatened by tribal and regional factions | |
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| 1967 |
| | The Ibo of eastern Nigeria claim independence for their region – as the republic of Biafra | |
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| 1970 |
| | The breakaway province of Biafra surrenders after three years of devastating civil war in Nigeria | |
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| 1975 |
| | Yakubu Gowon, who united Nigeria after the Biafran war, is thrown out in a military coup | |
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| 1995 |
| | Ken Saro-Wiwa, playwright and pro-democracy campaigner in Nigeria, is among a group hanged by the ruling junta | |
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| 1998 |
| | Nigerian forces expel Johnny Koroma from Freetown and reinstate Sierra Leone's elected civilian president, Ahmad Kabbah | |
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