STATES AND REGIONS CREATION IN NIGERIA

GOVERNMENT/REGIME          YEAR     NO        NAME OF STATE AND REGION

Lord Lugard                              1952      4           Northern, Western, Mid West and Eastern Regions.

General Yakubu Gowan              1967     12         North East, South East, Beanue, Plateau, East Central,

                                                                        Kano, Kwara, Lagos mid West, North West, North Central,

                                                                        rivers, South Western State.                  

General Muritala Muhammed      1976     19         Sokoto, Niger, Ondo, Oyo, Kaduna, Bauchi, Imo. Kano, Kwara

                                                                        Rivers, Cross River, Gongola, Anambra, Borno, Bendel, Benue

                                                                        Ogun, Plateau. Lagos

General Ibrahim Babaginda        1987       2          Kastina, Akwa-Ibom.

General Ibrahim Babaginda        1991     10         Yobe, Osun, Taraba, Jigawa. Kogi, Abia, Delta, Enugu, Edo, Adamawa

General Sani Abacha                 1996     6          Zamfara, Bayelsa, Gombe, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Nasarawa