Administrative Origins of Nigerian Federalism

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Title:	Administrative Origins of Nigerian Federalism
Author:	Ballard, J.A.
Year:	1971
Periodical:	African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:	70
Issue:	281
Period:	October
Pages:	333-348
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	colonial administration federalism Politics and Government colonialism History and Exploration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/721055
Abstract:	A historical outline of the British colonial administration and an exposure of political measures, which have inhibited a broad structural planning in Nigeria. Three main periods are to be distinguished: 1898-1919; gard's initial attempts to create an administrative superstructure and its failing; 1919-1935: Clifford's policy of co-ordinating administrative activity in a central secretariat and his attempts to limit the role of the Lieutenant Governors. After the inauguration of the Legislative Council in 1923 the whole issue around the Nigerian constitutional development was focussed to he question to reconcile or to separate the legislative Council and indirect rule through NAs; 1935-1945: a constitutional development through regional councils, which did not live however the regions a political identity firm enough to prevent separatism. Notes.