On its third anniversary as an independent nation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" id="mwATM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> became a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_First_Republic" id="mwATQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nigerian First Republic">republic</a>.<sup about="#mwt100" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_1#cite_note-17" id="mwATU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATY">[17]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><cite about="#mwt97" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFFalolaOyeniyi2015"><a href="./Toyin_Falola" id="mwCPU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Toyin Falola">Falola, Toyin</a>; Oyeniyi, Bukola Adeyemi (2015). <i id="mwCPY">Africa in Focus: Nigeria</i>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ABC-CLIO" id="mwCPc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ABC-CLIO">ABC-CLIO</a>. p.<span id="mwCPg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>61.</cite><span about="#mwt97" class="Z3988" id="mwCPk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Africa+in+Focus%3A+Nigeria&amp;rft.pages=61&amp;rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.aulast=Falola&amp;rft.aufirst=Toyin&amp;rft.au=Oyeniyi%2C+Bukola+Adeyemi&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+1"></span></span>