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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] |