To give effect to the proclamation, there was the need for the British legal occupation of the Ilaje country contiguous with Lagos which already was a British colony. Thus, on the 24th October ...

According to the National Population Commission, a census was first conducted in the area known today as Nigeria in the year 1866 by the British colonial government within the Colony of Lagos.

But as many Nigerians stay home to celebrate, I hope they will watch the Netflix documentary series Journey of an African Colony ... commissioner for justice in Lagos State and a historian ...

(The Lagos colony was later incorporated into the Southern Nigeria Protectorate for budgetary reasons). This is what Lord Lugard was referring to in his infamous description of how a marriage ...

Advices from Lagos, capital of the British colony of that name on the slave coast of West Africa, report a serious state of affairs there. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The first such force was created to police the Lagos colony in 1861. Subsequent constabularies were formed in what became the northern and southern protectorates. The composition of these police ...

Furthermore, in 1861, the British Navy entered Lagos and annexed it as a British Colony via the Lagos Treaty of Cession. Consequently, Lagos came under the protection and direct British ...

The prison was built in 1882 before being revamped This was the first of Her Majesty's Prisons to be established after the British navy had captured the town and set up Lagos Colony in 1861.

It was built in 1887 in honour of the second governor of Lagos Colony, Sir John Hawley Glover. It was, in 1903, the first to host the public screening of a film in Nigeria. After a rigorous ...

To give effect to the proclamation, there was the need for the British legal occupation of the Ilaje country contiguous with Lagos which already was a British colony. Thus, on the 24th October ...

The prison was built in 1882 before being revamped This was the first of Her Majesty's Prisons to be established after the British navy had captured the town and set up Lagos Colony in 1861.