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Lagos Marina 1892 Street in Lagos, c. 1910 Lagos saw protest regarding house and land tax in 1895 Following threats from Kosoko and the French who were positioned at Whydah , a decision was made by Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister) who noted in 1861, "the expediency of losing no time in assuming the formal Protectorate of Lagos". [ 36 ]
Lagos (/ ˈ l eɪ ɡ ɒ s / LAY-goss; [10] [11] also US: / ˈ l ɑː ɡ oʊ s / LAH-gohss; [11] [12] Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwest Nigeria.With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, and the most populous urban area on the African continent.
1859- The CMS Grammar School in Bariga, a suburb of Lagos in Lagos State, is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria, founded on 6 June 1859 by the Church Missionary Society 1860 - Catholic church established.
Aerial view of Lagos. Lagos is a city in the District of Faro, in Portugal.According to tradition, the city was founded about 2,000 years before the Birth of Christ, [1] having been under rule by the Carthaginians, [2] Romans [3] and Muslims. [4]
Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port ... There was a small legislative council which was established when the colony was founded in 1861 ...
Herbert Macaulay was born on 14 November 1864 on Broad Street, Lagos, [4] [5] to the family of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowther. His parents were children of people captured from what is now Nigeria, resettled in Sierra Leone by the British West Africa Squadron, and eventual returnees to present day Nigeria. [6]
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The establishment of the Magistrate Court gave birth to the High Court, the then Lagos State Supreme Court. [10] When the Supreme Court of Nigeria was founded, the Lagos Supreme Court metamorphosed into the High Court of the Federal Territory Lagos with the concurrent appointment of John Taylor as Chief Judge. [11]