Who can tell which of today's events will prove most consequential in the future? Here presented is our list of events which proves to be one. This list covers the periods 1954 to 1955. Many things happen every single day. Only the future can tell what would emerge the most consequential.
- Awolowo declares free education in the Western Region
- Socony Vacuum (now Mobil), a global giant, granted oil prospecting license in Nigeria
- Railway Act of 1955 enacted
- Oil is struck in commercial quantity at Oloibiri
- Queen of England visits Nigeria
- Osita Osadebe begins his professional musical career
- Anthony Enahoro moves a motion for self-government in Nigeria
- John Amata makes film, Freedom, abroad
- LadokeAkintola moves a second motion for independence in Parliament and asked for Nigeria to gain independence from the British in 1959. This motion was passed by the Federal House but the British authorities refuses to acquiesce to it.
- Benjamin Adekunle a.k.a. Scorpion, enlists in Nigerian army
- Willink Commission reports that the Niger Delta people are poor, backward and neglected, and should be on the concurrent list as a "special area" needing special attention”.
- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa coins National Unity Tenet - Unity in Diversity
- University College Hospital Ibadan moves to its permanent site.
- Discovery of Bomu oil field in Ogoniland brings Nigeria into the committee of global oil producing states
- Motion for independence on April 1, 1960, moved by AG Parlimentarian, Remi Fani- Kayode is accepted and acquiesced to by the British
- Constitutional conference holds in Lancaster House in London
- Chinua Achebe, a 28-year-old broadcaster, introduces the world to African Literature through Things Fall Apart.
- FRA Williams becomes first African to be appointed Queen's Counsel, QC
- Olusegun Obasanjo enlists in the Nigerian army.
- Liberty Stadium (now Obafemi Awolowo Stadium) officially opened
- Future Cardinal of the Roman Catholic, Arinze Francis becomes an ordained priest
- Adelabu Adegoke, leader of the opposition in the West, dies in motor accident. He is called penkelemesi because of favourite phrase 'peculiar mess,' frequently used by him to describe the opposition.
- At the instance of the British who needed a few more months, Tafawa Balewa moves a final motion for independence in October 1 of 1960 instead of April 1.
- Southern Cameroun, formerly part of Nigeria, joins the Republic of Cameroon after a referendum
- Federal elections holds. Zik’s NCNC placed second to the Northern Peoples' Congress (NPC), thus choosing to enter into an alliance with the winning party making Awolowo’s AG an opposition party.
- Hezekiah Oladapo Davies appointed as Queen’s Counsel
- First major play by Wole Soyinka ,The Invention, is staged by the Royal Court London where he works as teacher and actor
- Western Nigeria Television, WNTV (precursor to Nigeria Television Authority) conceptualized by Premier Awolowo becomes Africa’s first TV station as it commences operation in Ibadan.
