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1. www.bbc.com › news › world-africa-64654312Nigeria's naira shortage: Banks attacked in Warri and Benin City

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   Feb 15, 2023 · Frustration has been building for weeks after a shortage of the newly designed naira notes led to a lack of cash. Some customers in southern Nigeria's Warri and Benin City reportedly set fire to ...

2. knoji.com › article › the-biafra-war-in-nigeriaThe Biafra War In Nigeria: Causes, Development, And Aftermath

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   Mar 29, 2018 · On 15th of January, 1966, in response to claims of electoral fraud, Lt. Kaduna Nzeogwu and other junior Army officers, mainly of Ibo descent, launched a coup d'etat against the federal government. This coup resulted in the seizure of power by General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, who was an Ibo and head of the Nigerian army.

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4. www.hrw.org › reports › 2003The Warri Crisis: Fueling Violence: II. Background

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   The Urhobo, a much larger group numbering some millions related to the Edo-speaking people of Benin City, live in Warri town and to the north, on land. To the south and east, also in the swampy ...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Midwest_Invasion_of_1967Midwest Invasion of 1967 - Wikipedia

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   With the 12th Battalion moving west capturing Benin City and Ore, the 18th Battalion swung south, taking Warri, Sapele and Ughelli, while the 13th Battalion headed north for Auchi, Agenebode and Okene. Simultaneously, a plot to capture Mid-Western Governor David Ejoor at his home in Benin failed.

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6. www.cnn.com › 2021/08/23 › africaA new king was crowned in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region and ...

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   Aug 23, 2021 · Prince Tsola Emiko waves after being crowned as the 21st king or the Olu of Warri kingdom and the Ogiame Atuwatse III during his coronation at Ode-Itsekiri on August 21, 2021. The coronation of a ...

7. www.jstor.org › stable › 44509326VOLATILE IN THE WESTERN NIGER DELTA (1928-52)* - JSTOR

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   Nigeria, West Africa, colonial administration, ethnicity, politics, taxation, violence. Warri, a historic port town in the western Niger Delta, is now the capital city of Delta State in Southern Nigeria. In March 1997, the military government of Nigeria, under General Sani Abacha, decided to relocate the headquarters of the Warri South Local

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   What happened in Warri & Benin City?

   • Some customers in southern Nigeria's Warri and Benin City reportedly set fire to two commercial banks. Nigerians have faced long queues at cash machines with some sleeping outside banks to try and be first in line to get some money. People say they have been forced to skip meals and work without cash to pay for food or transport to their jobs.

   Nigeria's naira shortage: Banks attacked in Warri and Benin City

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   Which group attacked Benin City?

   • Benin City was attacked by Lt. Col. Banjo and his troops, who were mainly Yoruba. The Nigerian soldiers, who were supposed to defend the city, were mostly Ibo and did not put up much resistance.

   The Biafra War In Nigeria: Causes, Development, And Aftermath - Knoji

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   How did the Biafrans attack Benin City?

   • The Biafrans launched an offensive on the 9th of August and rapidly moved across the Niger River into the mid-western region. They captured Benin City, being stopped just 130 miles from Lagos, the Nigerian capital. Lt. Col. Banjo, a Yoruba, led the attack.

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   What happened in Warri?

   • Violence has regularly erupted in the region since then, leading to clamp-downs by the authorities. In October 1998, a curfew was declared in Warri town by the new military administrator, Navy Commander Walter Feghabor, after at least five people were shot dead in clashes between Ijaws and Itsekiris and a large number of houses set on fire.

   The Warri Crisis: Fueling Violence: II. Background - Human Rights Watch

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   What happened to the 12th Battalion in Benin?

   • With the Biafran 12th Battalion under Lt. Col. Festus Akagha moving west to Benin City, which was captured with little opposition as Biafran soldiers fired their weapons into the air upon entering the city.

   Midwest Invasion of 1967 - Wikipedia

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   What happened to Warri South West?

   • In September 1999, the Delta State Assembly passed a bill moving the Warri South West local government headquarters from Ogidigben to Ogbe Ijoh. Though the intense fighting of 1999 died down, there were new clashes throughout the next four years, in which, cumulatively, dozens of people were killed.

   The Warri Crisis: Fueling Violence: II. Background - Human Rights Watch

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9. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsWHO CONTROLS WARRI? HOW ETHNICITY BECAME VOLATILE IN THE ...

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   8 In the early anthropological scholarship of this area, Warri communities were considered derivative of their Edo counterparts in neighboring Benin Province, and even the Edo people were considered distant cousins to their Yoruba neighbors further west. R. E. Bradbury, The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria (London, 1964); J. U. Egharevba, A Short History of ...