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| - This article describes the timeline for the first phase (2051-2052) of the Nigeria War. Other sources should be consulted for the period 2053-2061 of the War, which saw additional troop surges, followed by the withdrawal of American forces after widespread1 protest. The bombing on October 5, 2050, of the Miami Sports Super-Dome, causing a partial collapse of the super-structure and ultimately leading to 83 deaths and over 700 injuries, ignited widespread shock and outrage of the American people. An unusually quick CIA investigation, concluding by the end of November, connected the incident to the regime of Jaja Achebe in Nigeria. The special interest group Americans for Patriotism (AFP), an arm of the Patriot Industries Alliance (a coalition of powerful military corporations), lobbied Congress to invade Nigeria and disband Achebe's regime before it could cause additional attacks. Military experts questioned why Achebe would suddenly provoke the United States. Jaja Achebe was a radical Igbo revolutionary who, in the 2020s, led an uprising in the South-East of the nation and overthrew the Islamist-controlled government. His administration was extremely nationalist, and oppressed all ethnic groups other than the Igbo tribe. His government revived African traditional religion and national pride for the Igbo tribe, and was antagonistic to the Western world, regarded as imperialistic. Jaja was extremely popular among the Igbo people, who regarded him as a great leader, but was viewed as a brutal dictator in other regions of Nigeria and around the world. The Yoruba people of South-Western Nigeria, as well as the Islamic Northerners, rose up to oppose Jaja’s regime, leading to the formation of the Yoruba Resistance Front, as well as the Islamic State of Nigeria. On February 10, 2052, the United States, led by President Timothy Baker, invaded Nigeria. Much of Jaja's forces were concentrated along the Southern coast of the country. Following a naval battle at Lagos, American forces pushed through the southern coast of the nation, ultimately capturing the capital Port Harcourt and subsequently causing Achebe's military to surrender. An insurgency soon built up to oppose the American occupation, followed by widespread tribal warfare. In December of 2052, a series of internal documents from the Defense Department revealed that the war was a conspiracy to produce a profit for military corporations. Willis Troop Security (producing weaponry and defense for individual soldiers, including machine guns, armor, rifles, and troop gear), Freedom Infrastructure (constructing roads, water pipes, electrical wires, and troop transport machinery for warfare), and Gamma Defense (producing large-scale military equipment including battle robots, drones, missiles, and the characteristic antimatter warheads widely used during the war {see Technology of the Nigeria War}) were large paramilitary corporations which banded together to form the Patriot Industries Alliance. These companies staged the bombings in Miami and bribed key government officials to initiate warfare.
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