WHAT YEAR LAGOS BECAME A CROWN COLONY?

Iamovadouz

11 years ago

Lagos was annexed as a coony in 1861..became a colony in 1862. Was a crown colony in 1874

Johnson101

11 years ago

1906

nuella stephneey

11 years ago

The British consulate was established in 1849,and the territory under the consulate included the area from lagos to Bimbia in the Cameroon. In 1853,Lagos became a separate consulate. In 1861, Lagos became a crown colony. In 1900,the British government divided the entire Nigeria into three administrative units- the northern protectorate, the southern protectorate and the already existing lagos colony. In 1906, the British government merged the southern protectorate and the lagos colony understand the same name, "protectorate of the southern Nigeria and the colony".In 1914,the British government through Lord Lugard, amalgamated the two existing protectorates under a single administration and this resulted to the unification of Nigeria.

Abdulqudri

11 years ago

Lagos became a crown colony of the

British Empire in 1861. Before that

time, the British government had

perfected its colony administration

system of administration in the West

Indies and in India. And so, it did not

take any time to set up its typical

crown colony administration in Lagos.

By October 1862, a Legislative Council

comprised of a Chief Justice, Colonial

Secretary and a senior military officer

in command of British troops stationed

in Lagos, had been constituted.