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Cameroons becomes a separate federal territory within Nigerian administration

Constitutional reforms treated Southern Cameroons with a distinct status while still linked to Nigerian administration.

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1954

Cameroons becomes a separate federal territory within Nigerian administration

Constitutional reforms treated Southern Cameroons with a distinct status while still linked to Nigerian administration.

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Constitutional reforms treated Southern Cameroons with a distinct status while still linked to Nigerian administration. This arrangement set up later plebiscite politics.

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