caa a22 4500 388041978 CHVBK 20180307125025.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199806 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020860400090987 doi S0020860400090987 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020860400090987 Nwobodo Ofor Operational cooperation between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Nigerian Red Cross Society [Elektronische Daten] [Ofor Nwobodo] The Nigerian Red Cross Society has its roots in the year 1917, when the country was still under British rule. In that year the British Red Cross for the first time organized a fund-raising event in Lagos. There followed the formation of what was then known as the Nigeria Central Branch of the British Red Cross Society, with headquarters in Lagos. The branch had divisions in the then three regions of the country — Eastern, Northern and Western — with headquarters respectively in Enugu, Kaduna and Ibadan. Once Nigeria achieved independence, on 1 October 1960, the Nigerian Red Cross Society was born through an act of parliament ("The Nigerian Red Cross Society Act of 1960”). Today, the Society has a branch in each of the country's 36 states as well as in Abuja, in the Federal Capital Territory. Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998 International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 221-232 0020-8604 38:323<221 1998 38 RCE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020860400090987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020860400090987 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nwobodo Ofor NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 221-232 0020-8604 38:323<221 1998 38 RCE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge