NICOLSON, I. F.2025-02-052025-02-0519690 19 821652 Ihttps://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1837The book is itself intended in part as a kind of acknowledgement to past generations of public servants in Nigeria, and also as something which may be of some use to their hard-pressed Nigerian successors. Published individual acknowledgement of all who have helped with information, comment, and advice is for various but sufficient reasons not possible.• 1900—The Starting Point • The Planners and the Plan • Lagos and the Yorubaland Protectorate, 1900-1904 • The Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, 1900-1905 • The Amalgamation of Lagos and Southern Nigeria, 1905-1912 • The Protectorate of Northern Nigeria, 1900-1912: Reality and Myth • Lugard’s Amalgamation of Nigeria, 1912-1918 • Administocracy, 1918-1948 IX Transition to Ministerial Rule, 1948-1960 • The Problems of the Present • IndexenBook