She helped negotiate Nigerian independence from Britain and is said to have been the first Nigerian woman to drive a car.

In 1905, he was Norway's emissary to Stockholm to negotiate Norwegian independence from Sweden.

The UK government would not require a referendum of any kind to allow it to negotiate independence with Scotland.

It can choose to negotiate independence with Basildon if it so chooses - referendums have no fixed status in the UK constitution.

In a referendum in Quebec in 1980, 60 percent of the voters refused to give the Parti Quebecois a mandate to negotiate independence.

He helped negotiate independence, but was bitterly disappointed by the partition of his country.

When Barbados negotiated full political independence from Britain on 30 November 1966, the office was renamed Prime Minister.

Idris spent the early part of his career attempting to negotiate independence for Cyrenaica.

In May of 1980, the province of Quebec voted against a proposal to negotiate independence from Canada.

He was assassinated in 1947 after negotiating independence from Britain.