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GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO AFRICA IN MICROFORM General Editor: Neville Rubin
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO NIGERIA 1862-1960
Introduction by Dr. D.C. Dorward
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GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO AFRICA IN MICROFORM General Editor: Neville Rubin
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO NIGERIA 1862- 1960
Introduction by Dr. D.C. Donvard
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GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO NIGERIA, 1862-1960 This four part series of microfilms consists of the complete runs of British colonial government periodical publications, i.e. Annual Reports, Blue Books, Government Gazettes and Trade Supplements, as well as selected Command Papers, relating to: (Group I) The Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, 1862 - 1906; (Group 11) The Niger Coast (Oil Rivers) Protectorate, 1891 1899, and the Protectorates of Southern Nigeria, 1899 - 1913, and Northern Nigeria, 1900 1913; (Group 111) the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, 1914 - 1939; and (Group IV) the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, 1940 - 1959, each division of the documentation corresponding to transitions in colonial administration. The geo-political entity "Nigeria" is a colonial creation whose origins are to be found in the three British proto-colonial economic polities, the Colony of Lagos, which was under the supervision of the Colonial Office, the Niger Coast (Oil Rivers) Protectorate under the Foreign Office, and the territory of the Royal Niger Company, a royal chartered company vested by Her Majesty's Government with judicial and administrative powers. This introduction seeks to provide a brief account of the successive amalgamations which led to the creation of Nigeria and other historical background to the government publications, as well as to draw the reader's attention to various anomalies and alterations which have occurred in the various publications over the course of the colonial era. The sources in Group I commence with the events of December, 1851, when, in response to mounting pressure from British ti-aders and missionaries and in reaction to an earlier abortive attempt at armed intervention in Lagos politics by the British Consul for the Bights of Benin and Biafra, a British naval force deposed the reigning Oba of Lagos, Kosoko, and installed his principal rival, Akitoye, who promptly signed a treaty with the British government granting protection and support to Christian missionaries, free trade privileges to British subjects and most-favoured-nation status to the British government, as well as agreeing to the abolition of human sacrifice and the export trade in slaves, with the concession that, "If at any time it shall appear that Slave Trade has been carried o n through or from the territory of the King and Chiefs of Lagos, the Slave Trade may be put down by Great Britain by force upon that territory.. . 'I. Thus Britain, whose commercial ties with the coastal region of the Bights of Benin and Biafra were long-standing, embarked upon a course of action which was to lead to increasing involvement and responsibility in the internal affairs of Lagos.' During the following decade swcessive British Consuls at Lagos sought to advance British interests in the face of repeated elyorts by Kosoko to regain his throne, the disruptive effects of the Yoruba civil wars in the Lagos hinterland, and clashes between European commercial and missionary factions. Confronted with an apparently anarchistic situation, British officials became increasingly convinced that the solution lay in direct political control through the annexation of Lagos as a British colony. This was effected by means of the treaty of 30" July, 1861, wherein Docemo, Akitoye's successor, ceded Lagos to the British in return for an annual pension.' I
See Command Paper No. 1445, "Papers relative to the Reduction of Lagos, with Plan" (1852), 1445. The familiar prefix C was not added to Command Paper numbers until 1868. See Command Paper Nos. 2982 and 3003, "Papers relating to the Occupation of Lagos" (1862), 2982; "Additional Papers relating to the Occupation of Lagos" (1862), 3003.
The annexation of Lagos proved not to be a panacea. The economic dependence of Lagos upon trade with the interior and of the colonial government upon revenue derived from duties upon that trade is clearly illustrated in the accounts of the Lagos Blue Books. Yet, as H. Stanhope Freeman, the first Governor of the colony, emphasized in his Annual Report for 1863, trade had been brought practically to a standstill by witr between Ibadan and Abeokuta, in the hinterland beyond his jurisdiction. John Hawley Glover, who governed Lagos from 1864 until 1872, tried on several occasions to establish peace in the hinterland through active intervention but without lasting success.' Moreover, Glover's "forward" policy was not viewed with favour in London.
In 1865 a Parliamentary Select Committee recommended the gradual curtailment of British commitments in West Africa. Accordingly, in 1866 the "Administrator" of Lagos was placed under the supervision of the Governor of West African Settlements, stationed at Freetown, Sierra Leone. Distance and poor communications facilities tended to nullify the effectiveness of such supervision, consequently in 1874 British administration on the coast was again reorganized, with a Lieutenant-Governor at Lagos u.nder the authority of the Governor of the Gold Coast. In the mid-1880s, however, the tempo of activity at Lagos began to accelerate once more.4
In 1886, Lagos regained its status as a separate colony and, under the energetic governorship of Sir Gilbert Carter (1891 - 1897) and of his successors, the Yoruba hinterland was gradually brought under British sovereignty as the Protectorate of Lagos.' Finally, in 1906, the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos were amalgamated with the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria to form the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, which had its headquarters at Lagos. The government publications not only record these changes, they were affected by them. The Annual Reports, while published as Command Papers, separate from the Blue Books, were in fact covering letters which accompanied the annual Blue Books and which tended to contain item by item commentaries on the essentially statistical information contained in the Blue Books. However, over the course of time, Annual Reports came to contain an increasing amount of information, particularly of a political and social nature, not directly related to material in the Blue Books. As to their presentation, from 1862 until 1886 the Lagos Annual Reports were included in an often multi-volume annual Command Paper, "Reports Showing the Present State of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions, Transmitted with the Blue Books".6 Beginning in 1887, Colonial Annual Reports were normally presented separately, though under a common annual Command Paper number, each individual possession's report being distinguished by a distinct sub-section number. One of the effects of the demotion of Lagos to the position of a satellite between 1866 and 1886 was that the Annual Reports and Blue Books, commencing with those for the year 1865, were forwarded to London. via Freetown or later Cape Coast Castle and therefore were 'See Command Papers C 3523. "Papers relating to the War among the Native Tribes in the Neighbourhood of Lagos" (1865); 3523. 4 See Command Papers C 4957, C 5144; and C 5249-33, "Correspondence respecting the War between Native Tribes in the interior and Negotiations for Peace conducted by the Government of Lagos" (1887), C 4957; "Further Correspondence respecting the War between the Native Tribes in the interior and the Negotiations for Peace conducted hy the Government of Lagos" (1887), C 5144; "Report of the Resources and Conditions of the Western District, Lagos" (1888), C 5249-33. Sec Command Paper C 7227; "Dispatches from Sir Gilbert T. Carter, furnishing a report of the Lagos Interior Expcdition of 1893, with the reply of the Secretary of State" (1893/4), C 7227. As a result, the Lagos Annual Reports for 1885 and 1886 bear a common Command Paper number, C 5239, having been printed as parts of the same paper.
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accompanied by a second covering letter from the supervisory Governor, which was also included in the printed report. Moreover the system led to delays and confusion. The entry for the Lagos Annual Report for 1870 bears the notation "Not Received", while no Annual Reports for Lagos were submitted to Parliament for t.he years 1883 or 1884. The Annual Report for 1865 consists of a covering letter by Governor Samuel Blackall in Freetown, but none from the Administrator in Lagos, while Glover's report for 1866 is very succinct. On the other hand, the Annual Report for 1869 contains an interesting report by William J. Maxwell, Deputy Collector of Customs at Lagos and one of the highest ranking non-Europeans in the Lagos administration. Furthermore, it should he noted that though there exists a Gold Coast and Lagos Annual Report,for 1885, it contains very little material relating to Lagos and should not be confused with C 5239, the Lagos Annual Reportfor 1885. Similarly, the Annual Report for Southern Nigeria (Lago~y) for 1905, Cd 2684-53, the last in the Lagos series and in Group I of these microfilms, should not be conhsed with the Annual Reportfor Southern Nigeria for 1905, Cd 2684-58, which is included in Group I1 of the microfilms. Finally, a single combined Annual Report was presented for the years 1900 and 1901, though separate Blue Books for Lagos were submitted for 1900 and 1901, thus illustrating the divorce of the Annual Reports from the Blue Books. The Blue Rooks were far more uniform in content and format. While new items were added to the list of categories, e.g. Postal Iteturns in 1868, Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums in 1870, and Criminal Statistics in 1875, most change was in the direction of an increase in the quantity and quality of the information provided, a generalisation applicable to the Blue Books throughout the colonial era. Some indication of the scope and contents of the BZue Books can be seen from the following list of subject headings: Taxes, Duties and other sources of Revenue Statements of Revenue and Expenditure Expenditure on Public Works Military Expenditure The Public Debt Legislation, Laws, and Proclamations Civil Establishment, including names, ranks, and salaries Population Statistics, Marriages, Births, and Deaths Ecclesiastical Returns Education Import and Export Statistics Agriculture; Cultivated and Uncultivated Land and Uses Wages Average Prices of Selected Staple Foodstuffs Manufacturing, Mines, and Fisheries Grants of Land Gaols and Prisons Meteorological Observations
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Though the Blue Book.9 for the years 1862 to 1878 and 1881 to 1883, inclusive, were not printed, they retain a uniformity of style since entries were made in ink upon printed forms which were then bound. Naturally these early manuscript Blue Books are extremely rare, having been copied by hand for limited distribution, and unfortunately no copy of the Lagos Blue Book for 1864 appears to have survived.' In 1879 and 1880 the Blue Books were printed in Lagos, by "Jacob Sylvanus George, Government Printer", who also produced many of the Blue Books after that of 1885, when the annual Blue Books were consistently printed, generally in Lagos. As for the Lagos Government Ga'zefte, which commenced in 1881, it was the official journal of the colonial government, containing important judgments of the Lagos High Court, legislation and ordinances, appointments, postings, and promotions, and other public notices, as well as a wide range of miscellaneous detailed information, such as jury lists, monthly shipping intelligence, and "Simple Rules of Advice to Officers who have to go out in the sun to perform their duties". The issue for the 11" July, 1887, No. 7 of 1887, is a fascinating Extraordinary Jubilee Edition. Group I1 of the microfilm series commences with the publications relating to the Niger Coast (Oil Rivers) Protectorate, something of an administrative anomaly since it came under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Office. In 1885, Her Majesty's Government had declared a protectorate over the "Niger Districts", a paper protectorate which included the line of coast between the Lagos Protectorate on the west and the west bank of the Rio del Rey on the east.* On the 10" July, 1886, a Royal Charter was granted to the "National African Company", later renamed the "Royal Niger Company", empowering it with authority within a large part of the ill-defined territory of the Niger basin claimed by Britain.9 However, except for the irregular intervention of the British Consul for the Bights of Benin and Biafra," it was not until the appointment of Major Claude MacDonald as "Commissioner and Consul-General in the Oil Rivers Protectorate" in 1891 that an administrative organization for the coastal region came into being. A notice appeared in the London Gazette on the 13Ih May, 1893, changing the name of this latter territory to that of the "Niger Coast Protectorate". On the 1" April, 1899, the Foreign Office handed over control of the Niger Coast Protectorate to the Colonial Office and, on the 1" January, 1900, the Protectorate was amalgamated with part of the territory formerly administered by the Royal Niger Company to form the "Protectorate of Southern Nigeria". The greater part of the territory ostensibly under the control of the Royal Niger Company became the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria. As has already been noted, the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria absorbed the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, on the 1'' May, 1906. Finally, on the 1'' January, 1914, the Colony and Protectorate of The Blur Book for 1864 was submitted, as can be seen from Glover's Annunl Report for 1864, however careful investigation has failed to locate a copy The appropriate entry in the catalogue of the CO151 series at the Public Record Office, London, bears the notation "missing". X London Gazette, 5"June, 1885. ' The National African Company (Royal Niger Company) was a private company exercising authority under a Royal Charter and its publications and records therefore fall outside the scope of this microfilm series. However two Command Papers, C 7977 and C 9372, relating to the Royal Niger Company are included. "Report by Sir John Kirk on the Disturbances at Brass" (l8Y6), C 7977; "Papers relating to the Revocation of the Royal Niger Company's Chatter and to the Government of the Niger Districts; Notes on the Niger Districts and Niger Coast Protectorate, 1882-1893; the Royal Charter of the National African Company; List of Treaties with Native Chicfs: Balance Sheets and Statements of Revenue and Expenditure, 1887-1898" (1899), C 9372. See Command Paper C 5165, "Papcrs relating to King Jaja of Opobo and the opening of the West African Market to British Trade" (1888), C 5165
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Southern Nigeria was amalgamated with the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria to form the "Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria". The publications relating to the Niger Coast (Oil Rivers) Protectorate differ from those of the other colonial administrations as a result of its having been under the Foreign Office for most of its existence. Instead of the usual Annual Reports, there is a series of Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade andFinance, covering the years 1891 to 1895/6, which overlap and mesh with a series of Reports on the Adniinistration of the Niger Coast Protectorate, both series being published'as Command Papers. Command Paper C 8277-52 bears the hybrid title Diplomutic and Consular Report on Trade and Finance, Africa: Report for the Year 1895/6 on the Administration of the Niger Coast Protectorate. Only the last of the series of reports, that for the year 189819, bears the more familiar title Annual Report. The Diplomatic and Consular Reports tend to focus on trade, rather than administration. However, Major MacDonald's Report on the Administration of the Niger Coast Protectorate, Azrgxst 1891 - August 1894, (1895) C 7596, provides a summary covering this earlier period. MacDonald's Report on the Administration of the Niger Coast Protectorate, 1894/5, (1 895) C 7916, is also of particular interest since it is composed of a number of signed departmental reports with covering notes by MacDonald, unlike the usual compilation by a Governor or High Commissioner. The Blue Books for the Niger Coast Protectorate, four volumes covering the years 1896/7 to 1899/1900, are ofthe standard type, being on Colonial Office forms with the words "Colony of" crossed out. There were no Blue Rooks for the Oil Rivers Protectorate, though some relevant information of the type normally found in the Blue Books, particularly on matters relating to trade, can be found in the Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Moreover, no Government Gazette was published by the Niger Coast (Oil Rivers) Protectorate. Finally, in addition to those Command Papers relating to the Royal Niger Company, three Command Papers relating to important events in the history of the Protectorate have been included." The Annual Reports and Blue Books for Southern Nigeria require little special comment, other than to note that there was an Annual Reportfor 1899/1900, Cd.431-7, covering the period from the assumption of Colonial Ofice authority, as well as an Annual Report for 1900, Cd.788-23, and to reiterate that the Annual Report for Southern Nigeriafor 1905, Cd.2684-58, should not be conhsed with the Annual Report for Southern Nigeria (Lagos)for 1905, Cd.2684-53, the latter being included in Group I of the microfilm series. However the relevant Government Gazettes did undergo alterations. From 1900 until the final "Extraordinary Government Gazette" of lstMay, 1906, it was the Government Gazettefor the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria (Calabar). Afier the amalgamation with Lagos, the title changed to the Southern Nigeria Government Gazette. The Annual Reports, Blue Books, and Government Gazette for Northern Nigeria, which form the third sub-section of Group I1 of the microfilm series, are of the standard format. On the other "correspondence respecting the Disturbances in Benin and the operations against the Chief Nanna, 1894" (1895), C 7638; "Papers relating to the Massacre of British Officials near Benin and the Consequent Punitive Expedition" (1898); C 8677: "Further Correspondence relating to the Benin Temtories Expedition in 1897" (1899). C 9529. "
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hand, the first High Commissioner for Northern Nigeria, Sir Frederick Dealtry Lugard, was far more effective than most at using the Annual Reports to convey his own views on a wide range of issues and they bear the stamp of his personality. This section also includes four Command Papers on correspondence relating to the Kano Campaign," Lugard's Memorandum on Taxation,13 correspondence relating to the Munshi Campaign and the Satiru R~sing,'~and Lugard's monumental Amalgamation Report.'s Group I11 of the series covers the heyday of colonial rule in Nigeria, from 1914 to 1939. In addition to the Anrtuul Reports, Blue Books and Government Gazette, this section includes a series of publications variously known as the Nigerian Trade Statistical Abstract and Nigerian Trade Report, as well as the famous Command Paper Cmd 3784, relating to the 1929 disturbances in Eastern Nigeria.16 'There are relatively few anomalies worthy of note. During the First World War years of 1916, 1917 and 1918, the relevant Blue Books were drastically reduced in volume, with a large number of topics being ~ m i t t e d . 'Two ~ interesting additions to the Blue Books were the inclusion of information on Port and Harbours in 1920 and on Air Service in 1936. One of the impacts of the Second World War, at the end of the period, was the discontinuation of the publication of the Annual Reports. No Annual Report for 1939 appeared. Group IV covers the period from 1940 to independence, the period of decolonisation. In 1946, the Blue Book, which had weathered the war years, disappeared, while the Annual Reports reemerged in a revised and enlarged form which incorporated much of the material formerly contained in the Blue Books and which contained a new "public relations" aspect, with emphasis on "colonial development". An increasingly regional focus led to the discontinuation of these Annual Reports for Nigerza in 1955. The Goveernment Gazette, however, continued to appear throughout the period to independence. One of the major themes of this final period was the constitutional developments which occurred in response to the growth of Nigerian nationalist consciousness. The series of eleven Command Papers relating to this theme have therefore been included on Reel 177.
"Correspondence relating to Kano" (1903), Cd 1433. "Memorandum of the Taxation of Natives in Northern Nigeria" (1907), Cd 3309. 14 "Correspondencerelating to Sokoto. Hadeiga and the Munshi Country" (1907), Cd 3620. I5 "Report by Sir Fredenck Lugard on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration, 1912-1919" (1919); Cmd468. l6 "Disturbances in 1929 - Despatches from the Secretary of State to the Officer Administering the Government of Nigeria regarding the Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Disturbances at Aba and other places in South Eastern Nigeria in November and December, 1929" (1930/1), Cmd 3784. I? The Blue Books were reduced from a non-wartime average of approximately five hundred pages to around onelmndred and twenty-five pages during lhese war years.
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GOVERNMENT PUBLllCATIONS RELATING TO NIGERIA 1862 - 1960
INDEX TO THE MICROFILMS Group I: Lagos Colony and Protectorate 1862 - 1906 Reel 1
1862 - 1882, 1885 - 1905
Annual Reports
The Report for I870 consists merely of’ a notice stating that the Annual Report for I870 had not been received It would appear that no Annual Reports were submitted fbr the years I883 - 1884. From I874 - I886 the administrations of Lagos and the Gold Coast weye merged under the authority of the Governor at Cape Coast Castle in the Gold Coast. However, there is no material relating to Lagos in the Gold Coast Reports. A “Gold Coast and Lagos” Report for I885 was submitted but it contains nothing concerning Lagos and should not be confused with the Lagos Annual Report for I885 Miscellaneous Additional Command Papers: Papers relative to the Reduction of Lagos (1 852) Papers relating to the Occupation of Lagos (1 862) Additional papers relating to the Occupation of Lagos (1862) Papers relating to the War among the Native Tribes in the Neignbourhood ofLagos (1865) Correspondence respecting the War between Native Tribes in the Interior C 4957 and Negotiations for Peace conducted by the Government of Lagos (1887) Further correspondence respecting the War between the Native Tribes in C 5144 the Interior and the Negotiations for Peace conducted by the Government ofLagos (1887) C 5249-33 Report of the Resources and Conditions of the Western District of Lagos (1888) C 7227 Dispatches from Sir Gilbert T. Carter, hrnishing the report of the Lagos Interior Expedition of 1893, with the reply of the Secretary of State (1893/4) 1445 2982 3003 3523
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Reel 2
BlueBooks
1862 - 1863, 1865-1868
Reel 3
BlueBooks
1869 - 1871
Reel 4
BlueBooks
1872 - 1874
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Reel 5
BlueBooks
1875 - 1880
I
Reel 6
BlueBooks
1881 - 1886
I
Reel 7
BlueBooks
1887 - 1898
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Reel 8
1899 - 1905
BlueBooks
With the exception of the Blue Books for I879 and 1880, Lagos Blue Books were not printed, as such, before 1884. Information was entered in ink by hand on printed forms supplied by fhe Colonial Ofice. In format, therefore, they have the consistency of printed documents, yet entries are in pen and ink, hence their manuscript qualiw. Because the Lagos Blue Books before 1884 were hand copied, distribution was extremely limited No Lagos Blue Book for 1864 exists. Afier I905 information regarding Lagos was included in the Blue Books for Southern Nigeria. Reel 9
Government Gazettes
1887 - 1888
Reel 10
Government Gazettes
1889 - 1890
Reel I 1
Government Gazettes
1891 - 1892
Reel 12 Government Gazettes
1893 - 1894
Reel 13
Government Gazettes
1895 - 1896
Reel 14
Government Gazettes
1897 - 1898
Reel 15
Government Gazettes
1899 - 1900
Reel 16 Government Gazettes
1901 - 1902
Reel 17 Government Gazettes
1903 - 1904
Reel 18
1905
Government Gazettes
1906 (Jan to April only)
Reel 19 Government Gazettes
Group IIA: Niger Coast (Oil Rivers) Protectorate 1891 - 1899
Reel 20
Annual Reports on Trade and Administration
Though the British government declared a Protectorate over the 'Tv'iger Districts in I885 by a notfzcation in the London Gazette on 5" June 1885 it was not until the appointment of Mqjor Claude MacDonald as Consul-General and Commissioner in 1891 that the administration began to assume the bureaucratic attributes of a structured organisation, the territory being referred to as the "Oil Rivers Protectorate". On the 13'h May I893 a notice appeared in the London Gazette changing the name to the "Niger Coast Protectorate I! 'I
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In 1899 the administrative jurisdiction for the Niger Coast Protectorate was transjerredfiom the Foreign Office to the Colonial Ofice, whereupon the name was again changed, this time to the "Protectorate of Southern Nigeria". At the same time the territorial limits were extended by the incorporation of the area south of Iddah on the Niver River which had former& been administered by the Royal Niger Company under a royal charter. C 6550-125 Foreign Olfice Annual Series 1063, 1892. Dipolomatic and Consular Report on Trade and Finance; Africa. Report for the year 1891 on the Trade of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Old Calabar) C 6855-31 Foreign Ofice Annual Series 1144, 1892. Diplomatic and Consular Report on 'Trade and Finance, Africa; Report for the year 1891/92 on the Trade of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Old Calabar) C 6855-102 Foreign Office Annual Series 1215,1893. Diplomatic and Consular Report on Trade and Finance; Africa. Further Report for the year 1892 on the Trade of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Old Calabar) C 7828-35 Foreign Otfce Annual Series 1618, 1895. Diplomatic and Consular Report on Trade and Finance; Africa. Report for the year 1894 on the Trade of the Niger Coast Protectorate Africa, No 9 (1895). Report on the Administration of the Niger Coast C 7916 Protectorate, 1894 - 1895 C 8277-52 Foreign Ofice Annual Series 1834, 1897. Diplomatic and Consular Report on Trade and Finance; Africa. Report for the year 1895/6 of the Administration of the Niger Coast Protectorate Africa, No. 1 (1895). Report on the Administration of the Niger Coast C 7596 Protectorate, August 1891 -August 1894 Africa, No. 3 (1898). Annual Report on the Niger Coast Protectorate, C 8775 1896 - 1897 Africa, No. 2 (1899). Annual Report on the Niger Coast Protectorate, C 9124 1897 - 1898 Annual Report on the Niger Coast Protectorate, 1898 - 1899 Cd 3-12 Blue Book
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Reel 21
Blue Books
1897/8 - 1898/9
Reel 22
Blue Book
1899/1900
Miscellaneous Additional Command Papers:
C 5365 C 7638 C 7977
Papers relating to King Jaja of Opobo and the opening of the West African Market to British Trade (1888) Africa, No. 3 (1895). Correspondence respecting the Disturbances in Benin and the operations against the chiefNanna (1894) Report by Sir John Kirk on the Disturbances at Brass (1896)
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C 8677
C 9529 C 93 72
Papers relating to the Massacre of British Oficials near Benin and the Consequeni: Punitive Expedition (1898) Further Correspondence relating to the Benin Territories Expedition in 1899 Papers relating to the Revocation of the Royal Niger Company's Charter and to the Government of the Niger Districts; Notes on the Niger Districts and Niger Coast Protectorate, 1882 - 1893; the Royal Charter of the National African Company; Lists of Treaties with Native Chiefs; Balance Sheets and Statements of Revenue and Expenditure, 1887 - 1898
Extensive research has,failed to reveal a single copy of a Government Gazette for the Niger Coast Protectorate. None is listed in the Public Record Office's catalogue and there are no references to such in other relevant sources. One can only conclude that, IJ' a Government Gazette for the Niger Coast Protectorate was printed, no copies appear to have survived Group IIB: Protectorate of Southern Nigeria 1899 - 1913
The Protectorate qf Southern Nigeria was created in 1899j?om the territoryformerly known as the Niger Coast Protectorate and part of the territory formerly administered by the Royal Niger Conipuny. In I906 it absorbed the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, only to be amalgamated in 1 9 I l with the Protectorate of' Northern Nigeria to ,form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria Reel 23
Annual Reports Blue Book
1899/1900 - 1913 1900
Reel 24
Blue Books
1901 - 1902
Reel 25
Blue Books
1903 - 1904
Reel 26
Blue Book
1905
Reel 27
Blue Books
1906 - 1907
Reel 28
Blue Book
1908
Reel 29
Blue Book
1909
Reel 30
Blue Book
1910
Reel 3 I
Blue Book
1911
Reel 32
Blue Books
1912 - 1913
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Afer 1913, information pertaining to Southern Nigeria is to be found in the Biue Books for Nigeria. Reel 33
Government Gazettes plus Customs Statistics June to November 1901
1900 - 1901
Reel 34
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1902 - 1903
These Gazettes often included Supplements, and occasionally an Extraordinary Gazette was issued, the pages of which were numbered in a d!flerent sequence to that of the main body of the Gazette. Consequently the pagination in these reels offilm is not continuous, but the publications are kept in strict chronologzcal order. Reel 35
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1904 - 1905
Reel 36
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1906
lintil 1906, the Southern Nigeria Gazette was published in Culabar, but jkom 1907 onwards it was published in Lagos. In I906 the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria absorbed the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos and its headquarters were moved,fr.omCalabar to Lagos. Reel 37
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1907 Jan - June
Reel 38
Government Gazettes and Supplements plus Southern Nigeria Financial Report for 1907
1907 July - Dec
Reel 39
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1908 Jan - June
Reel 40
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1908 July - Dec
Reel 4 1
Government Gazettes arid Supplements
1909 Jan - June
Reel 42
Government Gazettes and Supplements plus Southern Nigeria Financial Report for 1908 (this appears after Gazette No. 62)
1909 July - Dec
Reel 43
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1910 Jan - June
Reel 44
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1910 July - Dec
Reel 45
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1911 Jan-June
11
Reel 46
Government Gazettes and Supplements plus Southern Nigeria Financial Report for 1910 (this appears after Gazette No. 91)
1911 July-Dec
Reel 47
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1912 Jan - April
Reel 48
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1912 May - Aug
Reel 49
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1912 Sept - Dec
Reel 50
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1913 Jan - June
Reel 5 1
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1913 July - Dec
Group IIC: Protectorate of Northern Nigeria 1900 - 1913 Reel 52
1900 - 1913
Annual Reports Miscellaneous Additional Command Papers: Cd 1433 Cd 3309 Cd 3620 Cd 468
Northern Nigeria; Correspondence relating to Kano (1903) Northern Nigeria, Memorandum on the Taxation of Natives in Northern Nigeria (1907) Northern Nigeria, Correspondence relating to Sokoto, Hadeija and the Munshi Country (1907) Report by Sir Frederick Lugard on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration, 1912 - 1919
Blue Books
1900 - 1901
Reel 5 3
Blue Books
1902 - 1906
Reel 54
Blue Books
1907 - 1910
Reel 55
Blue Books
1911 - 1913
After 1913 information pertaining to Northern Nigeria is to be found in the Blue Rooks for Nigeria Reel 56
Government Gazettes
1900 - 1905
Reel 57
Government Gazettes
1906 - 1909
Reel 58
Government Gazettes arid Supplements
1910 - 1911
12
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Reel 59
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1912 - 1913
Group 111: Nigeria 1914 - 1939 Reel 60
1914 - 1938
Annual Reports
From I939 - I945 no Nigeria Annual Reports were published for reasons of waTtime economy. Reel 61
Blue Book
1914
Reel 62
Blue Books
1915 - 1918
Reel 63
Blue Books
1919 - 1920
Reel 64
Blue Books
1921 - 1923
Reel 65
Blue Books
1924 - 1925
Reel 66
Blue Books
1926 - 1927
Reel 67
Blue Books
1928 - 1929
Reel 68
Blue Books
1930 - 1931
Reel 69
Blue Books
1932 - 1933
Reel 70
Blue Books
1934 - 1935
Reel 71
Blue Books
1936 - 1937
Reel 72
Blue Books
1938 - 1939
Reel 73
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1914 Jan - April
Reel 74
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1914 May - Aug
Reel 75
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1914 Sept - Dec
Reel 76
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1915 Jan - June
Reel 77
Government Gazettes arid Supplements
1915 July - Dec
Reel 78
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1916 Jan - April
13
Reel 79
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1916 May - Aug
Reel 80
Government Gazettes and Supplements
1916 Sept - Dec
Reel 81
Government Gazettes Supplements
1917 Jan - Dec 1917 Jan - June
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Supplements
1917 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes Supplements
1918 Jan - Dec 1918 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes Supplements
1919 Jan - Dec 1919 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes Supplements
1920 Jan - Dec 1920 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes Supplements
1921 Jan - Dec 1921 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1922 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1922 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1923 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1923 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes Supplements
1924 Jan - Dec 1924 Jan - June
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Supplements
1924 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1925 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1925 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1926 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1926 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1927 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1927 Jan - June
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Supplements
1927 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1928 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1928 Jan - June
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Supplements
1928 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1929 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1929 Jan - June
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Supplements
1929 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1930 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1930 Jan - June
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Supplements
1930 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1931 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1931 Jan-Dec
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Supplements
1931 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1932 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1932 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1933 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1933 Jan - June
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Supplements
1933 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1934 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1934 Jan - June
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Supplements
1934 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1935 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1935 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazette
1936 San - Dec
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Supplements
1936 San - Dec
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Government Gazette
1937 San - Dec
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Supplements
1937 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazette
1938 San - Dec
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Supplements
1938 San - Dec
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Government Gazette
1939 Jan - Sept 7&
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Supplements
1939 Jan - Sept (No. 56)
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Government Gazette and Supplements
1939 Sept 9&- Dec
Reel I3 1A Miscellaneous Additional Trade Statistics
1913 - 1916
Reel 131B Nigeria Trade Statistical Abstracts
1917 - 1920
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Annual Reports on the Customs Department ofNigeria
1921 - 1925
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Annual Reports on the Customs Department ofNigeria
1926 - 1930
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Nigeria Trade Reports
1931 - 1934
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Nigeria Trade Reports
1935 - 1939
Miscellaneous Additional Command Papers: Cmd 3784 Disturbances in 1929 - Despatches from the Secretary of State to the Oficer Administering the Government of Nigeria regarding Reports of the Commission of Enquiry into the Disturbances at Aba and other places in South Eastern Nigeria in November and December 1929 (1930 - 1931)
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1946 - 1955
Annual Reports
A s a wartime economy, no annual reports were published during the years I939 I945 No Annual keports for Nigeria were published @er 1955. From I956 onward9 the Regions each produced their own Annual Report, an apt reJlection of the regionalisation of Nigerian polity.
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1940 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1940 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1941 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1941 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1942 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1942 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1943 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1943 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1944 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1944 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1945 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1945 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1946 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1946 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1947 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1947 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1948 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1948 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1949 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1949 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes iind Supplements
1950 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1950 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1951 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1951 July-Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1952 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1952 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1953 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1953 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1954 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
1954 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes
1955 Jan - Dec
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Supplements
I955 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes a.nd Supplements
1956 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1956 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1957 Jan - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1958 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1958 July - Dec
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1959 Jan - June
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Government Gazettes and Supplements
1959 July - Dec
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Blue Books
1940-1945
The lmf two Blue Books in the series and attenuated volumes covering the periods 1913 - I914 and 1914 - 1945, respectively.
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Miscellaneous Additional Command Papers: Cmd 6599 Nigeria: Proposals for the Revision of the Constitution (1945) Cmd 8934 Report of the Conference on the Nigerian Constitution, London, July and August 1953 (1953) Cmd 9026 Nigeria: Report of the Fiscal Commission on the Financial Effects of the Proposed New Constitutional Arrangements, Lagos, December 8" 1953 (1953)
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Nigeria: Report of the Resumed Conference on the Nigerian Constitution (Chairman: Rt. Hon. 0. Lyttleton, M p ) held in January and February 1954, in Lagos (1954) Nigeria: Report of the Tribunal appointed to enquire into allegations Cmnd 51 reflecting on the Official Conduct of the Premier of, and certain Persons holding Ministerial and other Public Ofices in the Eastern Region of Nigeria (Chairman: Sir Stafford Foster-Sutton, KCMG, OBE) December 20" 1956 Nigeria: Report of the Nigerian Constitutional Conference (Chairman: Cmnd 207 Rt. Hon. Nan Lennox-Boyd, MF') held in London in May and June 1957 (1957) Cmnd 481 Nigeria: Report of the Fiscal Commission (Chairman: J. Raisman) June 24'h 1958 (1958) Cmnd 505 Nigeria: Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into the Fears of Minorities and Means of Allaying Them. (Chairman: H. Willink) July 30" 1958 (1958) Cmnd 569 Nigeria: Report of the Resumed Nigerian Constitutional Conference (Chairman: Rt. Hon. Alan Lennox-Boyd, MF') held in London in September and October 1958 (1958) Cmnd 1063 Nigeria: Constitutional Discussions held in London, May 1960 (1960) Cmnd 1214 Federation of Nigeria: International Rights and Obligations; Exchange of letters between the Federation of Nigeria and the Government of the United Kingdom (1960) Cmd 9059
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