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British control on the newly established province. This involved touring the province and 'pacifying' the inhabitants, including the Emirate of Fika and the formidable Chibuk people. He also witnessed the
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had a "well-disciplined army" and to "discover whether, as was said, he had sent some of his slaves to Lokoja to join the army there who, after their training, had returned to Kano and were now instructing the Emir's men in the arts of
European warfare." He arrived in
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provinces was adjusted, a new district was created, and Mai Maina was appointed its chief. To build the headquarters, he selected a site in the bush about thirty-five miles northeast of
Garkida. Upon its completion, he named the town
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in 1874. His father, Yerima Abdu, was the grandson of the chief of
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villages in the district. Refusing this demotion, Mai Maina resigned his position as chief and retired to
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Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources
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Was it only yesterday? : the last generation of Nigeria's "Turawa"
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Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science
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