Protectorate of Southern Nigeria
The Protectorate of Southern Nigeria (English Southern Nigeria Protectorate ) was a British protectorate in West Africa from 1900 to 1914 . Together with the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria , it formed the basis of the former colony of Nigeria .
history
The Protectorate of Southern Nigeria was formed in 1900 from the Protectorate of Niger Coast and Territories of the Royal Niger Company . On February 16, 1906, the crown colony of Lagos was attached to the protectorate, which was renamed "Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria" (English Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria ). In 1914, the Southern Nigeria Protectorate united with the Northern Nigeria Protectorate into a single colony whose areas but in fact were segregated until the 1946th
Southern Nigeria was administered by a high commissioner until 1906, then by a governor. High Commissioners were 1900-1904 Sir Ralph Denham Rayment Moor , who was represented in 1900 by Henry Gallwey , and 1904-1906 Sir Walter Egerton . Governors from 1906 to 1912 were again Walter Egerton, who was represented by James Thorburn in 1907 , and from 1912 to 1914 Frederick Lugard , who also held the office of governor of Northern Nigeria.
See also
literature
- Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo: The Warrant Chiefs. Indirect Rule in Southeastern Nigeria, 1891–1929 . Longman, London 1972, ISBN 0-582-64664-2 (especially pp. 118-161).