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Lord and Lady Lugard. Lugard married, on 10 June 1902, Flora Shaw, [59] daughter of Major-General George Shaw, and granddaughter of Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet. She was a foreign correspondent for The Times and coined the place name Nigeria. There were no children from the marriage.
The Battle of Kwatarkwashi was a decisive battle between the British administered Protectorate of Northern Nigeria and forces of the Sokoto Caliphate's Kano Emirate. The defeat of the Kano cavalry in the battle marked the formative end of the Kano Emirate.
Nigeria is divided roughly in half between Muslims, who live mostly in the north part of the country, and Christians, who live mostly in the south; indigenous religions, such as those native to the Igbo and Yoruba ethnicities, are in the minority. [20] Nigeria is a regional power in Africa and a middle power in international affairs.
From 1914 to 1919, Lugard was made Governor General of the now combined Colony of Nigeria. Throughout his tenure, Lugard sought strenuously to secure the amelioration of the condition of the native people, among other means by the exclusion, wherever possible, of alcoholic liquors, and by the suppression of slave raiding and slavery.
Population census in Nigeria carries political and religious implications, thus, some Nigerians, especially of Northern extraction rose in opposition to his comments. [21] Governor of Kano State in Northern Nigeria, Rabiu Kwankwaso, visited President at the time Goodluck Jonathan and demanded the dismissal of Odimegwu. He was issued a query ...
In 1914 the two were merged into the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, with roughly the same boundaries as the modern state of Nigeria. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The first British High Commissioner for Northern Nigeria, Lord Frederick Lugard , tried to rule through the traditional rulers, and this approach was later extended to the south.
Edward Lugard, British army officer. Sir Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, British colonial bureaucrat and military officer. Lugard Footbridge, in Kaduna, Nigeria, named after Baron Lugard. Lugard Road, one of many places in Hong Kong named after Baron Lugard. PS Lugard, a Uganda Railway paddle steamer named after Baron Lugard and built in 1927.
Northern Nigeria (Hausa: Arewacin Najeriya) was a British protectorate which lasted from 1900 until 1914, and covered the northern part of what is now Nigeria. The protectorate spanned 660,000 square kilometres (255,000 sq mi) and included the emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate and parts of the former Bornu Empire , conquered in 1902.