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If the pace of the the relocation of the seat of government since the formal proclamation of Abuja as the nation’s new federal capital was hitherto slow and sluggish, the events of Sunday April 22, 1990 accelerated the snail-paced process. Murtala Ramat Mohammed, an army general and Nigerian Head of State, had on February 4, 1976, promulgated a law which decreed Abuja as the nation’s new federal capital. Lagos, which had since independence in 1960 served as the Nigerian capital, had become largely unsuitable with accentuating population, urban congestion and intractable traffic snarls, which encumbered the business of governance. Mohammed and his advisers therefore conceived of a brand new capital territory built from scratch, in the manner of Brasilia.

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