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optimistically and simplistically believed that the problem of African economic development was largely the problem of law and order; that once the slave trade was suppressed the chaos and anarchy believed to be the bane of life in Africa would disappear and African endeavour would be channelled to the collection of the national produce of the tropical forest for the satisfaction of European needs. The view came to be held that Africans by themselves were incapable of maintaining law and order to the level needed to bring about the much-desired economic revolution and that only European rule could do it.
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It was not enough for the colonial power to impose and maintain law and order though. It was also necessary to promote and develop free movement and natural growth and trade. Also it was the generally accepted assumption that the economic efforts and products of a colony should supplement, rather
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should be incorporated into Southern Nigeria since the people were Yoruba, or remain in Northern Nigeria since the ruler was Muslim and for some time Ilorin had been subject to the Uthmaniyya Caliphate. There was argument about the administration of duties on goods landed on the coast and carried
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as High Commissioner for the Southern Nigeria Protectorate. He held both offices until 28 February 1906. On that date, the two territories were formally united and Egerton was appointed Governor of the new Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, holding office until 1912. In the new Southern
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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
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The British economic policy for Africa at the time was founded on the belief that if African peoples were brought to embrace European civilisation with its emphasis on law and order their economic resources would be more effectively and thoroughly exploited to the benefit of all. It was
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Egerton endorsed the development of rubber plantations, a concept familiar to him from his time in Malaya, and arranged for land to be leased for this purpose. This was the foundation of a highly successful industry. He also thought there could be great potential in the tin fields near
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from the West African Medical Service and saying that no European should take orders from an African, which had the effect of ruling out African doctors from serving with the army. Egerton himself did not always approve of these policies, and they were not strictly upheld.
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Egerton was a strong advocate of colonial development. He believed in deficit financing at certain periods of a colony's growth, which was reflected in his budgets from 1906 to 1912. He had a constant struggle to obtain approval for these budgets from the colonial office.
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When in 1900 the protectorate passed from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office, Ralph Moor became High Commissioner of Southern Nigeria and laid the foundations of the new administration, his health failing, he retired on pension on 1 October 1903.
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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
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than compete with or undermine, the economic efforts and products of the metropolitan country. This was a survival of the mercantilist system which had come to grief in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
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As early as 1908, Egerton supported the idea of "a properly organized Agricultural Department with an energetic and experienced head", and the Department of Agriculture came into being in 1910.
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lands in the southwest of what is now Nigeria, in 1903. The colonial office wanted to amalgamate the Lagos Colony with the protectorate of Southern Nigeria, and in August 1904 also appointed
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He also sponsored extensive road construction, building on the legislative foundation laid by his predecessor Moor which enabled use of unpaid local labour.
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Nigeria, the old Lagos Colony became the Western Province, and the former Southern Nigerian Protectorate was split into a Central Province with capital at
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into Northern Nigeria. And there was dispute over whether railway lines from the north should terminate at Lagos or should take alternative routes to the
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Claimed in 1908; territory formed 1962; overlaps portions of Argentine and Chilean claims, borders not enforced but claim not renounced under the
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on the Niger, since navigation southward to the coast was restricted to the high-water season, and even then was uncertain.
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Egerton came into conflict with the administration of Northern Nigeria on a number of issues. There was debate over whether
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From its foundation, southern Nigeria was administered by a high commissioner. The first high commissioner was
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Lugard returned to Nigeria as Governor of the two protectorates. His main mission was to complete the
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Merchant Prince of the Niger Delta: The Rise and Fall of Nana Olomu, Last Governor of the Benin River
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to accept the establishment of the Supreme Court in the main towns. In 1912, Egerton was replaced by
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Egerton's administration imposed policies that tended towards segregation of Europeans and Africans.
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states of the Lagos Colony was not clear, and it was not until 1908 that Egerton persuaded the
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He favoured rail over river transport, and pushed to have the railway further extended to
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Southern Nigeria in Transition, 1885–1906: Theory and Practice in a Colonial Protectorate
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When Egerton became Governor of Lagos he enthusiastically endorsed the extension of the
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Egerton had reason on his side in objecting to the proposed line terminating at
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north. Southerners, on their part, were not eager to embrace the extension of
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reasons and the colonial administration sought to use the budget surpluses in
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Nigerian history, politics and affairs: the collected essays of Adiele Afigbo
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Postage stamps and postal history of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate
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trade by the combination of indigenous middlemen and traders based in
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was later added in 1906, and the territory was officially renamed the
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Egerton shared Moor's views on the damage that was being done to the
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The Warrant Chiefs: Indirect Rule in Southeastern Nigeria, 1891–1929
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City of Blood Revisited: A New Look at the Benin Expedition of 1897
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The Evolution of the Nigerian State: The Southern Phase, 1898–1914
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Barkan, Joel D.; Gboyega, Alex; Stevens, Mike (August 2, 2001).
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The African diaspora: African origins and New World identities
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Colonialism in Africa, 1870–1960: The economics of colonialism
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Egerton became Governor of Lagos Colony, covering most of the
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Governor of the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria
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The legal relationship between the Lagos government and the
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The foundations of Nigeria: essays in honor of Toyin Falola
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Governor of the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria
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Public Sector and Capacity Building Program: Africa Region
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High Commissioner of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate
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High Commissioner of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate
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