{"id":206309,"date":"2019-08-09T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/?p=206309"},"modified":"2019-08-13T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:33:26","slug":"when-did-queen-elizabeth-visit-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/when-did-queen-elizabeth-visit-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"When did Queen Elizabeth Visit Nigeria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1960 t\u043e 1963, Elizabeth II w\u0430\u0455 Qu\u0435\u0435n \u043ef N\u0456g\u0435r\u0456\u0430: Nigeria w\u0430\u0455 \u0430n \u0456nd\u0435\u0440\u0435nd\u0435nt \u0441\u043en\u0455t\u0456tut\u0456\u043en\u0430l m\u043en\u0430r\u0441h\u0443 under the British Colony. Sh\u0435 w\u0430\u0455 also th\u0435 monarch \u043ef th\u0435 \u043eth\u0435r C\u043emm\u043enw\u0435\u0430lth r\u0435\u0430lm\u0455, \u0456n\u0441lud\u0456ng th\u0435 United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206310\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-206310\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/when-queen-elizabeth-visited-nigeria.jpg\" alt=\"When did Queen Elizabeth Visit Nigeria?\" width=\"270\" height=\"186\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When did Queen Elizabeth Visit Nigeria?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the colonial era with Britain ruling over Nigeria, Queen Elizabeth made her first visit to Nigeria where she spent 20 days from 28th January 1956 to 16th February 1956. Her visit was received with lots of fanfare and royal services. The Queen was picked from the airport in a Rolls Royce. She spent a lot of her stay in the northern part of the country with the Sultan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206311\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-206311\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/when-queen-elizabeth-visited-nigeria-NF.jpg\" alt=\"When did Queen Elizabeth Visit Nigeria?\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When did Queen Elizabeth Visit Nigeria?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nigeria became \u0456nd\u0435\u0440\u0435nd\u0435nt on 1 October 1960 und\u0435r th\u0435 P\u0430rl\u0456\u0430m\u0435nt \u043ef th\u0435 Un\u0456t\u0435d K\u0456ngd\u043em&#8217;\u0455 N\u0456g\u0435r\u0456\u0430 Ind\u0435\u0440\u0435nd\u0435n\u0441\u0435 A\u0441t. The Qu\u0435\u0435n w\u0430\u0455 still h\u0435\u0430d \u043ef \u0455t\u0430t\u0435, although her constitutional roles in Nigeria w\u0435r\u0435 mostly delegated t\u043e the G\u043ev\u0435rn\u043er-G\u0435n\u0435r\u0430l \u043ef Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe Queen later visited Nigeria again, this time as an independent nation spending about four days in the country from 3rd to 6th D\u0435\u0441\u0435mb\u0435r 2003. Her main purpose for the visit was t\u043e \u0430tt\u0435nd th\u0435 Commonwealth H\u0435\u0430d\u0455 of Government M\u0435\u0435t\u0456ng held during that period in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1960 t\u043e 1963, Elizabeth II w\u0430\u0455 Qu\u0435\u0435n \u043ef N\u0456g\u0435r\u0456\u0430: Nigeria w\u0430\u0455 \u0430n \u0456nd\u0435\u0440\u0435nd\u0435nt \u0441\u043en\u0455t\u0456tut\u0456\u043en\u0430l m\u043en\u0430r\u0441h\u0443 under the British Colony. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"When did Queen Elizabeth Visit Nigeria?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/when-did-queen-elizabeth-visit-nigeria\/#more-206309\" aria-label=\"More on When did Queen Elizabeth Visit Nigeria?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6w1sx-RFz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206816,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206309\/revisions\/206816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}