What date is Nupe?

The Nupe are an ethnic group native to North Central Nigeria. They are the dominant ethnic group in Niger State and a minority in Kwara State. The Nupe are also present in Kogi State and The Federal Capital Territory.

What date is Nupe?

The Nupe Day Celebration is a traditional and cultural event or celebration observed in Nigeria on 26 June.

The 26th of June is celebrated every year as the Nupe Day because it marks the only day, in the entire history of imperial Great Britain, on which the almighty British Army was decisively defeated by a native African army.

On the 26th of June, 1896, a British Constabulary provocatively wandered off the ‘British Protectorate’ of Lokoja and approached the Bida Army camp at Udi in Ogidi, today’s Kogi State. In the resulting skirmish, the Bida army resoundingly defeated the British Constabulary and seized the Union Jack.