Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria. Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the...
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Colonial Nigeria (redirect from Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria)
major regions (Northern protectorate, Southern protectorate and the Colony of Lagos). Progressive constitutions after World War II provided for increasing...
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of administrators and governors of Lagos State. Lagos State was formed on 27 May 1967 from Colony province and Lagos federal territory. The Office of is...
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established Lagos as being under British protection. Ten years later, the forced Lagos Treaty of Cession led to the formal establishment of the Lagos Colony. In...
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Lago Colony was a community located on the east end of the island of Aruba, near the area presently known as Seroe Colorado. The town consisted of 377...
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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...
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The CMS Grammar School in Bariga, a suburb of Lagos in Lagos State, is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria, founded on 6 June 1859 by the Church Missionary...
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larger Lagos Island. Their ruler Olofin divided the island among his ten sons. One of them, Aromire, planted pepper on the nearby island of Lagos. The palace...
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Lagos State, a state in south-western Nigeria Lagos Colony, former British Colony in south-western Nigeria Lagos Island, in the city of Lagos Lagos,...
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but that project had been acquired by the Lagos State government. Following a lengthy 10 year court case, Lagos State government offered other parcels of...
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Victoria Davies Randle (category People from Lagos Colony)
a socialite in Victorian Lagos Colony. Victoria Davies was the eldest child of James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos merchant, and Sara Forbes...
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the 1866 census of the British-controlled Lagos Colony. Beginning in 1871, censuses were taken in Lagos Colony every 10 years (1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901)...
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with the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Lagos Colony, becoming the Northern Province of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. The Berlin Conference...
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The Cathedral Church of Christ Marina, Lagos is an Anglican cathedral on Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The foundation stone for the first cathedral building...
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Obafemi Owode and Odeda local governments. Other Egba are located in Lagos West, Lagos East, Oyo North, and Oyo South senatorial zones. Before the creation...
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Alimotu Pelewura (redirect from Lagos Market Women's Association)
Lagos Market Women's Association, a Lagos-based market women advocacy group. She was also an important political ally of Herbert Macaulay. The Lagos Market...
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Representatives Badge of the British West African Settlements Badge of the Lagos Colony Badge of the Oil Rivers Protectorate Badge of the Niger Coast Protectorate...
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American Civil War as well as opposition from the leaders of the British Colony of Lagos and disputes between the Egba people and the British, his settlement...
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Herbert Macaulay (category People from Lagos Colony)
School, Lagos. Macaulay started primary school in 1869 and from 1877, he was educated at St Paul's Breadfruit School, Lagos and CMS Faji School, Lagos. From...
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The Colony of Singapore was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom that encompassed what is modern-day Singapore from 1946 to 1958. During this period, Christmas...
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identical to the colonial arms of the Gold Coast, The Gambia and the Lagos Colony. Sierra Leone was granted its own unique coat of arms in 1914, and the...
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name neighbouring Lagos Island, Ikoyi and the Lekki Peninsula by the Lagos Lagoon. It is the main business and financial centre of Lagos State, Nigeria....
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Saro people (category History of Lagos)
Nigeria, especially the colony of Lagos for economic reasons; some were administrative personnel who were reassigned to Lagos. An expedition of the river...
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Lagos (KCL) is a secondary school in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. It was founded on 20 September 1909 with 10 students on its original site at Lagos Island...
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General Hospital, Lagos, is the oldest hospital in Nigeria. General Hospital, Lagos Odan is situated in Odan, Lagos Island, between Broad Street and Marina...
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Lagos State University of Science and Technology is a government-owned tertiary institution located in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. The institution...
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Benjamin Campbell (consular agent) (category History of Lagos)
who served as the first Consular Agent for the Lagos Colony. Campbell originally settled in the Colony of Sierra Leone and traded in the Nunez River,...
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half of the 19th century, the first colonies started to acquire their own colony badges, but it was not until the UK Parliament passed the Colonial Naval...
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William MacGregor (category Governors of the Lagos Colony)
July 1919) was a Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Lagos Colony, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland. MacGregor was born...
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their first match in 1904, when a team representing the Lagos Colony played the Gold Coast Colony. The Nigeria Cricket Association has been an associate...
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