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Operational cooperation between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Nigerian Red Cross Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2010
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The Nigerian Red Cross Society has its roots in the year 1917, when the country was still under British rule. In that year the British Red Cross for the first time organized a fund-raising event in Lagos. There followed the formation of what was then known as the Nigeria Central Branch of the British Red Cross Society, with headquarters in Lagos. The branch had divisions in the then three regions of the country — Eastern, Northern and Western — with headquarters respectively in Enugu, Kaduna and Ibadan. Once Nigeria achieved independence, on 1 October 1960, the Nigerian Red Cross Society was born through an act of parliament (“The Nigerian Red Cross Society Act of 1960”). Today, the Society has a branch in each of the country's 36 states as well as in Abuja, in the Federal Capital Territory.
- Type
- Cooperation between National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross
- Information
- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 38 , Special Issue 323: Cooperation between National Societies and the ICRC , June 1998 , pp. 221 - 232
- Copyright
- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998
References
1 Article 5(3) of the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (1986).
2 According to World Population Projections to 2050, a UN publication, “the population of Nigeria has reached 115 million and will climb to about 191 million in the year 2015, a 66% increase in 18 years.”
3 Articles 47, 48, 127 and 144 respectively.
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