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As Nigeria Turns 60, Today…

Today, Nigeria clocks 60 years of political independence. It is a major milestone considering the fact that many countries that gained independence from the colonial masters along with Nigeria have since disintegrated. It is not out of place, therefore, if Nigerians across the country as well as those in the Diaspora roll out the drums to celebrate the country’s Diamond Jubilee anniversary with the characteristic pomp and pageantry.
For us in The Tide, 60 years of political independence is, no doubt, a great national achievement. With a sense of nostalgia, we recall that it was on this day in 1960 that the country’s Green and White flag was first hoisted at the historic event marked at the then Race Course, now Tafawa Balewa Square, Onikan, Lagos to usher in the new independent nation following the lowering of the Union Jack flag of the United Kingdom.
This historical event marked an eventual end to British colonial rule to the ecstasy of the founding fathers of the new nation.
The Independence Day Speech made by the then Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who received the constitutional instruments marking Nigeria’s political independence as a sovereign nation from Her Royal Highness, the Princess Alexandra of Kent, on behalf of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, was full of optimisms and captured the mood of the people on October 1, 1960.
Effusive in his declaration, the new Prime Minister, in his Independence Day Speech, said, “At last, our great day has arrived”.
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