President Buhari should have asked the British high commissioner to Nigeria to mark the Platinum Jubilee with the opening of the first ever British shipyard in the Niger Delta

Ayo Akinfe I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the...