Nigeria - 56 Years Later

2 October 2016

At midnight of October 1 1960, we who were not there have been told, a symbolic lowering of the Union Jack, the flag of the British Empire came down with an elegiac play of "Rule Britannia," and up came, fluttering in the midnight wind coming from the lagoon, the Green and white flag of Nigeria, and then a change of the guards marking Nigeria's independence from Britain. The Nigerian flag rose with the brash, marching tune of the new anthem:

"Nigeria we hail thee -

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