Who can tell which of today's events will prove most consequential in the future? Here is presented a list of events which proves to be one. This list covers the periods 1951 to 1954. Many things happen every single day. Only the future can tell what would emerge the most consequential. #Nigeriainthe50s #InformationAboutNigeria #LitCafEncycloepdia
- Ogunde sings Yoruba Ronu
- Awolowo and colleagues form the Action Group (AG)
- AG turnes the tables on Zik’s NCNC through grassroot canvassing. Zik retreats to the East “whence he came”
- Awolowo resumes office as Premier of the Western Region under colonial rule
- Shell in collaboration with British Petroleum exploits 450 barrels of oil in Akata I oil well
- Gabriel Okara wins the first ever National Poetry Prize
- Novel by Amos Tutuola, The Palm-wine Drinkardis published and becomes the first Nigerian book to achieve critical acclaims and international fame.
- Akintola Williams arrives from UK to establish, at 32, Africa's first indigenous chartered accounting firm.
- Process for Nigeria’s independence begins with first Constitutional Conference in London
- Fatai Olagunju starts his musical career after encountering the music of legendary artists like Tunde King and Irewole Denge
- Northern NPC parliamentarians rejects self-government, asking to first consult their 123 constituencies.
- Nnamdi Azikiwe becomes the Premier of the Eastern Region
- Azikiwe leads the African delegation to the Pan-African congress in Manchester, England, alongside Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta.
- Emmanuel Ifeajuna wins gold at the 1954 Vancouver Empire Games
- Victor Olaiya launches his own band, the Cool Cats at the West End Café in Lagos and became popular, promoting himself with numerous recorded hits.
- Novelist Mabel ?Segun is published in German anthologies, becoming arguably Nigeria’s first female to be published.
- Cyprian Ekwensi’s People of the City brings him to limelight
- Margaret Ekpo, women activist meets counterpart, Funmilayo Kuti in Abeokuta
- Nigerians expelled from Ghana
- Oba Adeniran Adeyemi, theAlafin of Oyo asked by Western region government to go into voluntary exile
