On January 1, 1914, Lord Frederick Lugard, the governor of both the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, signed a document consolidating the two ...

Captain Frederick Lugard, Britain's first proconsul in East Africa. Photo: Courtesy Lugard Falls on River Galana in Voi town were named after Captain Frederick Lugard, Britain’s first proconsul ...

Nigeria was, and still is, a contraption of the incompatibles. Frederick Lugard was the lord of the confusion. The likes of Prof. Richard Olaniyan and Dr. Kayode Fayemi who are theorizing on ...

1. Lugard’s Rest House, Lokoja Lord Frederick Lugard, Nigeria’s first colonial governor, played a significant role in the country’s amalgamation in 1914. His residence, the Lugard Rest House ...

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra has laid curses on those who amalgamated Southern and Northern Nigeria. Northern and Southern Nigeria were on January 1st ...

The Mandates Commission as well as the League depended on British goodwill. After the U.S. failed to join the League due to opposition in the Senate, it was mainly a British creation—indeed, at ...

Begrudging signature. Frederick Lugard arrives, picks a site where to erect a fort unlike previous visitors who would seek permission. A confident Lugard, just a week after his arrival in Buganda ...

Four days after the fall of the city Sir Frederick Lugard, the Commissioner of Northern Nigeria, arrived at Sokoto. And yet this little expedition is little only in the sense that it has not been ...

Makubuya said streets and monuments named after Sir Frederick Lugard, who he said was “responsible for some humanly degrading treatment,” remain in Uganda and Nigeria, glorifying his colonial ...

then we have a chance of strengthening the house that Frederick Lugard built. The least one would expect is that all parts of the country would subscribe to the same set of general values — e ...