August 1961 - Nigeria's Fourth State Is Born - Chief

August 1961 - Nigeria's Fourth State Is Born - Chief Anthony Enahoro speaks to reporters on his return from one of his many trips abroad to explain the Nigerian situation. A new region is born. The new Mid-West State is now in existence and the pressure is on for two more states to be formed out of the current set-up. April 4 this year saw the writing of a new chapter in Nigeria's constitutional history. It was on that epoch-making day that legislators of Nigeria's highest parliament, the federal House of Representatives, endorsed without dissentient voice the demand of the people of the Mid-West areas for a separate state. (Photograph by Drum Photographer @ BAHA)

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