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Lagos strike of 1897 was a labour strike in Lagos Colony (modern-day Lagos in Nigeria) which has been described as the first "major labour protest of...

Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria. Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the...

between Great Britain and Lagos on 1 January 1852. Britain annexed Lagos as a crown colony in August 1861 with the Lagos Treaty of Cession. British missionaries...

terms of the treaty, but under the threat of having Commander Bedingfield bombard Lagos, he relented and signed the Lagos Cession Treaty. Lagos proved...

crimes that were classified as "strikes", and requires a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 to life for a "third-strike offense." Proposition 36 adjusted...

the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2020. Knight, Heather; Lagos, Marisa (September 16, 2009). "Newsom backs Harris' decision". San Francisco...

President Barack Obama in the early part of his tenure, Carter stated his disagreements with the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists, Obama's...

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southern provinces sent an agitated telegram to Lagos: "The whole country is above area...is the state of rebellion." Reinforcements arrived from Lokoja...

frequently address the prior existence of the workers' movements of his time.) The first recorded labour strike in the United States was by Philadelphia...

(February 12, 2017). "Former Orlando Predator Jeremy Geathers dies after limo strikes him in Las Vegas". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on September...

protect British interests in the hinterland of the Lagos Colony and Nigeria against French aggression. In August 1897, Lugard organised the West African Frontier...

List of assassinated and executed heads of state and government List of heads of state and government who took their own lives List of heads of state...

2007. "H.R.4655—Iraq Liberation Act of 1998". October 31, 1998. "Address to the Nation on Completion of Military Strikes in Iraq". Presidency.ucsb.edu. December...

aeronautics was during the ill-fated three-men Arctic balloon expedition of 1897, led by Swedish engineer and aeronaut Salomon August Andrée, which unsuccessfully...

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Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795...

community of Eastern Orthodox Christians and Muslims. There is also a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, which has its headquarters in Pian da Lago. The...

Algiers-Lagos Highway the Dakar-Ndjamena Highway Niger shares a common currency, the CFA franc, and a common central bank, the Central Bank of West African...

role in the December 2002 – February 2003 national strike. As a result of the strike, around 40% of the company's workforce (around 18,000 workers) were...