The Creator Of The Zoo Nigeria, Druckard Frederick Lugard

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In 1894 Lugard visited West Africa for the first time. Employed by the Royal Niger Company, he led an expedition to forestall a French effort to establish a position on the lower Niger River. After a brief tour to Bechuanaland for the British West Charterland Company, he returned to the Niger in 1897 as commissioner for the hinterland of Nigeria and commander of the West African Frontier Force, a military contingent designed to aid the Royal Niger Company in defending its territorial claims.

When the charter of the Royal Niger Company was revoked in 1900, the British government assumed administrative responsibility for former territories of the company, and Lugard became high commissioner for Northern Nigeria. At that time, Northern Nigeria existed in name only, since the company had never extended any form of administration beyond the banks of the Niger. During his tenure Lugard laid the foundations of British rule in the North, first establishing British sovereignty by conquest of the Moslem states which had resisted alien domination and then by developing the forms of administration whereby the British would rule.

In 1906 Lugard resigned as high commissioner and the following year accepted an appointment as governor of Hong Kong, where he remained until 1911. Then, in 1912, he returned to Nigeria as governor of both the Northern and Southern protectorates, charged with amalgamating the two territories into a single unit.

Lugard's plans for amalgamation provided for the extension into the Southern Protectorate of the policy of indirect rule which he had developed in the North. Indirect rule was designed to allow for the administration of colonized peoples through the agency of indigenous institutions. Although indirect rule was not uniformly effective among peoples of very diverse traditional institutions, Lugard pushed hard for its adoption and as a guide published his Political Memoranda, earlier directives he had circulated in establishing the Northern administration. By 1919, when Lugard retired as governor general, Nigeria had been set well on its way to becoming a unified territory administratively.

Upon his return to England, Lugard set to work on his second book, The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (1922). In this book he set out in detail his conceptions of indirect rule and expressed his belief that Britain as an imperial power was responsible for aiding in the social, political, and economic development of its African dependencies. The book was hailed as an authoritative statement of British policy and became a guide to the administration of British dependencies.

Lugard never resumed his service abroad but remained an active public figure until his death in 1945. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1920 and was a member of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations from 1922 to 1936; he also served on several other national and international commissions dealing with Africa. In 1928 he was raised to the peerage. His wife, the former Flora Shaw, was the author of A Tropical Dependency, a history of Nigeria.

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colony is a smart word for "slave camp"!

The criminals came and enslaved us in our fathers land and called us Nigeria!

The British people with their brutish agenda brainwashed us into believing that we are lower than them and our fathers shamelessly worshiped them!

Nigeria is slavery glorified! Her days are numbered.

This has happened..the world has moved on...Germany lost out in ww1 and ww2 but have arisen to be an undustrial power...ffs we werent the only nation colonised...india was also colonised but at this time and age they r exporting technology.......even if we split, the corrupt leaders r equally divided amongst all tribes...the corrupt leaders are not from one part of the country.now that southerners(christians) have ruled naija for 15 years , are we any better? the colonial masters r nt the one preventing our leaders from tarring and putting motorable long lasting roads in all nooks and quandry of the country; they arent the ones responsible for ASUU been on strike for 7 months, arent the ones making doctors to be at home while we have a raging epidemic...the current minister of health(from one part of the country) was removed from office in 2008 in ebonyi in an alleged 36million naira fraud and we all close our eyes while he was appointed the minister of health;that wasnt the work of lord lugard...farouk lawan(from another part of the country) was implicated in a bribery scandal and the case has died;that aint the work of lord lugard......nigeria doesnt have a database of its citizens for effective management and policy making;that aint the work of lord lugard...we have 20billion dollars missing;that aint the work of lord lugard..we are in debt running into billions of dollars;that aint the work of lord lugard....Nigeria cant boast of constant power which should be a 120th century issue;thats not lord lugards fault...nigeria doesnt have good working refineries and so we refine crude oil abroad and them buy it back at more expensive prices;is that lord lugards fault??
In the years to come and when ur child is grown up and nigeria has probably failed and ur child asks u,'mama what happened to this country,...will ur answer be 'Its that idiot lord lugard'.


As i said earlier, INDIA was also colonised.

uzoexcel: This has happened..the world has moved on...Germany lost out in ww1 and ww2 but have arisen to be an undustrial power...ffs we werent the only nation colonised...india was also colonised but at this time and age they r exporting technology.......even if we split, the corrupt leaders r equally divided amongst all tribes...the corrupt leaders are not from one part of the country.now that southerners(christians) have ruled naija for 15 years , are we any better? the colonial masters r nt the one preventing our leaders from tarring and putting motorable long lasting roads in all nooks and quandry of the country; they arent the ones responsible for ASUU been on strike for 7 months, arent the ones making doctors to be at home while we have a raging epidemic...the current minister of health(from one part of the country) was removed from office in 2008 in ebonyi in an alleged 36million naira fraud and we all close our eyes while he was appointed the minister of health;that wasnt the work of lord lugard...farouk lawan(from another part of the country) was implicated in a bribery scandal and the case has died;that aint the work of lord lugard......nigeria doesnt have a database of its citizens for effective management and policy making;that aint the work of lord lugard...we have 20billion dollars missing;that aint the work of lord lugard..we are in debt running into billions of dollars;that aint the work of lord lugard....Nigeria cant boast of constant power which should be a 120th century issue;thats not lord lugards fault...nigeria doesnt have good working refineries and so we refine crude oil abroad and them buy it back at more expensive prices;is that lord lugards fault??
In the years to come and when ur child is grown up and nigeria has probably failed and ur child asks u,'mama what happened to this country,...will ur answer be 'Its that idiot lord lugard'.


As i said earlier, INDIA was also colonised.

Your points are quite noted and your logic very sound!
yet, let me put it this way!

Luggard laid the foundation of the mirage called Nigeria!
We dont have a national ideology!

From the so called independence until now, politics at the centre has been do or die.
If Northerner is in charge, the south will cry of marginalisation!
If a southerner is in charge, the North will cry fowl.

Did you hear of "making the nation ungovernable"?
How do you build a nation with such mentality?

We should move on?
I am Biafran, we fought a war for our independence but lost, and we are ready to move on!
Yet, let me ask you, are the Jihardists up North ready to move on?
Move on? from where and how?

Why should we flog a dead horse?
Nigeria is not working and it will never work!

Everything is seen from ethnic/religious angle.
Soludo was hated so much by the north and Sanusi is a cursed name in the south!

What we have is a supremacy fight by different constituents of Nigeria!
Bros, this fight will never stop.
There is no need for that.

Let us go our ways and build separate nations.

In India, the bases of admission into schools, is it based on where one comes from? Are you aware that in Nigeria, a child who scored 69% in an entrance exam was denied admission while another that scored 1% was offered the same admission?

In India, are people like Sanusi who read Sharia studies appointed Central Bank governors just because of where he comes from? The whole of national polices are sacrificed on the alters of "quota system"?

Bros, honestly, we are wasting our time! Let Biafra, ND Republic, Arewa, Odua and MD Republic come up and see giant strides.

nice points...between i v thought abt the pros and cons of staying or moving out...as said earlier the corrupt leaders we have r equally split in all parts of the country and a splitting of the country may not change anything;maybe....the fact is we havent had any real leader for this so called country..most v ruled and sown hatred amongst ourselves..v indian friends and the acrimony between the south and the north is there but they dont wash their linens in public...also they put progress of their country ahead of disenchantment within themselves...

also lastly i looked at the nigerian/west african map and if these nation splits, biafra may be landlocked..i mean if the south south dont fall under biafra...this is because any ship from the niger/onitsha would flow through delta,bayela and then rivers state before it gets to the high seas and we may have to pay dues..i m nt really sure hw it works though as i m nt well versed with maritime laws though

noblezone:

Your points are quite noted and your logic very sound!
yet, let me put it this way!

Luggard laid the foundation of the mirage called Nigeria!
We dont have a national ideology!

From the so called independence until now, politics at the centre has been do or die.
If Northerner is in charge, the south will cry of marginalisation!
If a southerner is in charge, the North will cry fowl.

Did you hear of "making the nation ungovernable"?
How do you build a nation with such mentality?

We should move on?
I am Biafran, we fought a war for our independence but lost, and we are ready to move on!
Yet, let me ask you, are the Jihardists up North ready to move on?
Move on? from where and how?

Why should we flog a dead horse?
Nigeria is not working and it will never work!

Everything is seen from ethnic/religious angle.
Soludo was hated so much by the north and Sanusi is a cursed name in the south!

What we have is a supremacy fight by different constituents of Nigeria!
Bros, this fight will never stop.
There is no need for that.

Let us go our ways and build separate nations.

In India, the bases of admission into schools, is it based on where one comes from? Are you aware that in Nigeria, a child who scored 69% in an entrance exam was denied admission while another that scored 1% was offered the same admission?

In India, are people like Sanusi who read Sharia studies appointed Central Bank governors just because of where he comes from? The whole of national polices are sacrificed on the alters of "quota system"?

Bros, honestly, we are wasting our time! Let Biafra, ND Republic, Arewa, Odua and MD Republic come up and see giant strides.

Oh is that the drunkard?