OUR NATION... OUR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
(will be published on weekly episodes from today).
This write-up is for patriots. Patriotic to God's kingdom, and not the geographic divide called NIGERIA. It's void of Biafran or Nigerian bias.
This write up in it's different episodes, will try to trace our pre-colonial heritage, the different cultures that came to make up our nation, the circumstances leading to the amalgamation, our tussle for independence, the civil war, and down to our contemporary political and prophetic climate.
DARE TO FOLLOW THE EPISODES...
I'm sure you are aware that God is totally in charge of the affairs of this world, though sometimes in our tiny human brains, we myopically envisage things spiralling out of control. The good news is that God is still in charge of the cosmos.
The nation NIGERIA was born IN THE BEGINNING, when God created the heavens and the earth 🌍. Those moments that darkness was everywhere. Some historians at this point will say I'm out of my mind, because for them, Nigeria was birthed when Britain amalgamated the Northern and Southern protectorate through the efforts of Lord Lugard in 1914.
I'll give a detailed rundown of our history:
"Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.
The Lagos colony was later added in 1906, and the territory was officially renamed the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. In 1914, Southern Nigeria was joined with Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the single colony of Nigeria. The unification was done for economic reasons rather than political—Northern Nigeria Protectorate had a budget deficit; and the colonial administration sought to use the budget surpluses in Southern Nigeria to offset this deficit.
Sir Frederick Lugard, who took office as governor of both protectorates in 1912, was responsible for overseeing the unification, and he became the first governor of the newly united territory. Lugard established several central institutions to anchor the evolving unified structure. A Central Secretariat was instituted at Lagos, which was the seat of government, and the Nigerian Council (later the Legislative Council), was founded to provide a forum for representatives drawn from the provinces. Certain services were integrated across the Northern and Southern Provinces because of their national significance—military, treasury, audit, posts and telegraphs, railways, survey, medical services, judicial and legal departments—and brought under the control of the Central Secretariat in Lagos.
The process of unification was undermined by the persistence of different regional perspectives on governance between the Northern and Southern Provinces, and by Nigerian nationalists in Lagos. While southern colonial administrators welcomed amalgamation as an opportunity for imperial expansion, their counterparts in the Northern Province believed that it was injurious to the interests of the areas they administered because of their relative backwardness and that it was their duty to resist the advance of southern influences and culture into the north. Southerners, on their part, were not eager to embrace the extension of legislation originally meant for the north to the south"...(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate).
"Northern Nigeria 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 states of the Sokoto Caliphate and parts of the former Bornu Empire, conquered in 1902. The first High Commissioner of the protectorate was Frederick Lugard, who actively suppressed revolutions and created a system of administration built around native authorities.
The Protectorate was ended on 1 January 1914, when its area was unified with the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Lagos Colony, becoming the Northern Province of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate)
To be continued...
(will be published on weekly episodes from today).
This write-up is for patriots. Patriotic to God's kingdom, and not the geographic divide called NIGERIA. It's void of Biafran or Nigerian bias.
This write up in it's different episodes, will try to trace our pre-colonial heritage, the different cultures that came to make up our nation, the circumstances leading to the amalgamation, our tussle for independence, the civil war, and down to our contemporary political and prophetic climate.
DARE TO FOLLOW THE EPISODES...
I'm sure you are aware that God is totally in charge of the affairs of this world, though sometimes in our tiny human brains, we myopically envisage things spiralling out of control. The good news is that God is still in charge of the cosmos.
The nation NIGERIA was born IN THE BEGINNING, when God created the heavens and the earth 🌍. Those moments that darkness was everywhere. Some historians at this point will say I'm out of my mind, because for them, Nigeria was birthed when Britain amalgamated the Northern and Southern protectorate through the efforts of Lord Lugard in 1914.
I'll give a detailed rundown of our history:
"Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.
The Lagos colony was later added in 1906, and the territory was officially renamed the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. In 1914, Southern Nigeria was joined with Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the single colony of Nigeria. The unification was done for economic reasons rather than political—Northern Nigeria Protectorate had a budget deficit; and the colonial administration sought to use the budget surpluses in Southern Nigeria to offset this deficit.
Sir Frederick Lugard, who took office as governor of both protectorates in 1912, was responsible for overseeing the unification, and he became the first governor of the newly united territory. Lugard established several central institutions to anchor the evolving unified structure. A Central Secretariat was instituted at Lagos, which was the seat of government, and the Nigerian Council (later the Legislative Council), was founded to provide a forum for representatives drawn from the provinces. Certain services were integrated across the Northern and Southern Provinces because of their national significance—military, treasury, audit, posts and telegraphs, railways, survey, medical services, judicial and legal departments—and brought under the control of the Central Secretariat in Lagos.
The process of unification was undermined by the persistence of different regional perspectives on governance between the Northern and Southern Provinces, and by Nigerian nationalists in Lagos. While southern colonial administrators welcomed amalgamation as an opportunity for imperial expansion, their counterparts in the Northern Province believed that it was injurious to the interests of the areas they administered because of their relative backwardness and that it was their duty to resist the advance of southern influences and culture into the north. Southerners, on their part, were not eager to embrace the extension of legislation originally meant for the north to the south"...(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate).
"Northern Nigeria 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 states of the Sokoto Caliphate and parts of the former Bornu Empire, conquered in 1902. The first High Commissioner of the protectorate was Frederick Lugard, who actively suppressed revolutions and created a system of administration built around native authorities.
The Protectorate was ended on 1 January 1914, when its area was unified with the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Lagos Colony, becoming the Northern Province of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate)
To be continued...
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