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Title:The Fiscal Imperative in the Amalgamation of 1914
Author:Lawal, Adebayo A.
Year:2002
Periodical:Humanities Review Journal
Volume:2
Issue:2
Pages:1-12
Language:English
Geographic terms:Nigeria
Great Britain
Subjects:colonialism
fiscal policy
political unification
Politics and Government
History and Exploration
Economics and Trade
Development and Technology
Abstract:Many historians who have written about Nigeria have shown a great deal of interest in the factors which accounted for the amalgamation of 1914 by which Nigeria was established as a single political entity. The various works published have treated exhaustively the administrative and political factors. The present paper emphasizes the financial and economic factors responsible for the union of the Southern and Northern Protectorates. It views amalgamation as an arrangement required for administrative unification, which was only possible by means of financial unification. Although the fiscal imperative is emphasized in this paper, other imperatives were administrative uniformity and centralization, economic unity, political unity and stability. Bibliogr., ref., online sum. [Journal abstract]
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