March 19 in Nigeria History.

     It was in the year 1990, on a day like this, when lady Oyinkansola Abayomi, founder of the Nigeria women’s party and first Nigerian chief guide commissioner of the girl guides movement in Nigeria died.

     When she was knighted in 1954, she became known as Lady Oyinkan.

     She did fundraising and promoting for Queen’s College through the West African Educated Girls’ Club, an organization she founded.

      It opened in 1927, she was a founding teacher at the school and the only Nigerian to work there.

     At that time, she was one of the first women to drive a car in Lagos.

    Also,on this day in 2003: Boatloads of Nigerian troops headed for the oil-rich Niger Delta to put down days of ethnic violence that left dozens dead and disrupted multinational oil operations.