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45-713: In 1967, Northern Nigeria was divided into the North-Eastern State , North-Western State , Kano State , Kaduna State , Kwara State , and the Benue-Plateau State , each with its own Governor. The Nok culture , an ancient culture dominated most of what is now Northern Nigeria in prehistoric times, its legacy in the form of terracotta statues and megaliths have been discovered in Sokoto , Kano , Birinin Kudu, Nok and Zaria . The Kwatarkwashi culture ,

90-580: A concubine of the Hausa founding father, Bayajidda . Thus, they are called the Banza Bakwai , meaning Bastard Seven. The Banza Bakwai adopted many of the customs and institutions of the Hausa Bakwai but were considered unsanctioned or copy-cat kingdoms by non-Hausa people. These states include: Between 500 and 700, Hausa people , who are thought to have slowly moved from Nubia and mixing in with

135-546: A modified Arabic script known as Ajami to record their own language; the Hausa compiled several written histories, the most popular being the Kano Chronicle . Usman Dan Fodio , the 18th century revolutionary and a social, religious and political reformer finally united the seven Hausa States with newly created provinces into the Sokoto Caliphate . The Sokoto Caliphate was under the overall authority of

180-685: A single United African Company ; he then acted as the combined firm's agent in the territory. Almost immediately, the firm saw renewed competition as two French firms—the French Equatorial African Association and the Senegal Company —and another English one—the Liverpool and Manchester Trading Company —begin establishing posts on the river as well. A native attack on the UAC's outpost at Onitsha in 1879

225-588: A trading post for the African Steamship Company " at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers. The expedition failed, with 40 of the 49 members dying of fever or wounds from native attacks. One of the survivors, Macgregor Laird , subsequently remained in Britain but directed and funded expeditions to the country until his death in 1861. He opposed the failed Niger expedition of 1841 but

270-718: A variant of the Nok culture centred mostly around Zamfara in Sokoto Province is thought by some to be the same or an offshoot of the Nok. The Fourteen Kingdoms unified the diverse lore and heritage of Northern Nigeria into a cohesive ethno-historical system. Seven of these kingdoms developed from the Kabara legacy of the Hausa people . In the 9th century as vibrant trading centers competing with Kanem-Bornu and Mali slowly developed in

315-514: Is in the North-Central part of the country. The Kano Native Authority, an offshoot of the fula Kano Emirate , inherited the ancient trade industries that fuelled the trans-Saharan trade with North Africa. The Province of Zaria is home to the City of Kaduna, an autonomous capital city that serves as the nation's capital and home to its national institutions. Groundnut and cotton industries in

360-582: Is plains of tall grass which are interrupted by trees. Sudan savanna is similar but with shorter grasses and shorter trees. Sahel savanna consists of patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast. In the Sahel region, rain is less than 20 inches (508 mm) per year and the Sahara Desert is encroaching. In the dry north-east corner of the country lies Lake Chad , which Northern Nigeria shares with Niger , Chad and Cameroon. The South Western part of

405-664: The British government being overcome, a charter was at length granted (July 1886), the National African Company becoming The Royal Niger Company Chartered and Limited (normally shortened to the Royal Niger Company), with Lord Aberdare as governor and Goldie as vice-governor. It was, however, evidently impossible for a chartered company to hold its own against the state-supported protectorates of France and Germany , and in consequence its charter

450-728: The Commander of the Faithful . Under Dan Fodio, the Empire was bicephalous and divided into two territories each controlled by an appointed vizier . Each of the territories was further divided into autonomous Emirates under mainly hereditary local Emirs . The Bornu Empire was initially absorbed into the Sokoto Caliphate of Usman dan Fodio but broke away a few years later. Initially, the British involvement in Northern Nigeria

495-685: The Emirates of Kontagora and Ilorin were the first to be conquered by the British. In February 1903, the great fort of Kano, seat of the Kano Emirate was captured, Sokoto and much of the rest of its Caliphate soon capitulated. On 13 March 1903, the Grand Shura of Caliphate finally conceded to Lugard's demands and proclaimed Queen Victoria as suzerain of the Caliphate and all its lands. Governor Lugard, with limited resources, controlled

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540-468: The Mali Empire adopted Islam in the 11th century. By the 12th century, the Hausa were becoming one of Africa's major powers. The architecture of the Hausa is perhaps one of the least known but most beautiful of the medieval age. Many of their early mosques and palaces are bright and colourful and often include intricate engraving or elaborate symbols designed into the facade. By 1500, the Hausa utilized

585-731: The Niger and the Benue River which converge at Kabba province from where it travels southwards ultimately emptying into the Atlantic Ocean . The expansive valleys of the Niger and Benue River valleys dominate the southern areas of the region. To the southeast of the Benue river, hills and mountains which forms the Mambilla Plateau create the highest plateau in Northern Nigeria with 1350 above sea level. This plateau extends to

630-703: The Northern Peoples Congress under Bello dominated parliament while the Northern Elements Progressive Union became the main opposition party. In 1967, Northern Nigeria was disestablished by subdivision. The government of Northern Nigeria was modelled after the Westminster system . A premier acted as head of government and presided over the day-to-day affairs of government, while a Governor of Northern Nigeria acted as viceroy and as commander-in-chief of

675-563: The British in 1960, a Governor continued to be appointed until 1967 as representative of the new administration in Lagos. The governor presided over all ceremonial functions and appointed the members of the nation's upper legislative house, the Northern Nigerian House of Chiefs. The highest point in Northern Nigeria is Chappal Waddi at 2,419 m (7,936 ft), which is located at gasha gumti Taraba state. The main rivers are

720-538: The Central Sudan, a collection of kingdoms merged – the Hausa Kingdoms or Hausa Bakwai – dominating the great savannah plains of Hausaland. Their primary exports were leather , gold , cloth , salt , kola nuts , animal hides, and henna . The seven Hausa states included: The growth and conquest of the Hausa Bakwai resulted in the founding of additional states with rulers tracing their lineage to

765-527: The NAC's over 400 treaties with local leaders obliged the natives to trade solely with or through the company's agents. Large tariffs and license fees eliminated competing firms from the area. The terms of these private contracts were made into general treaties by the British consuls, whose own treaties expressly incorporated them. Similarly, when King Jaja of Opobo organized his own trading network and even began running his own shipments of palm oil to Britain, he

810-538: The Niger River during the negotiations at the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference on African colonization . Goldie himself attended the meetings and successfully argued for including the region of the NAC's operations within a British sphere of interest. Pledges from him and the British diplomats that free trade (or, in any case, non-discriminatory tariff rates) would be respected in their territory were dead letters:

855-573: The Niger interior and unite it with the rest of the British Empire. The protectorate of Northern Nigeria was proclaimed at Ida by Frederick Lugard on January 1, 1897. The basis of the protectorate was the 1885 Treaty of Berlin which broadly granted Northern Nigeria to the British sphere of influence , on the basis of their existing protectorates in Southern Nigeria. Hostilities with the powerful Sokoto Caliphate soon followed.

900-563: The North Central. Hausa , Fulani , Nupe and the Kanuri people are chiefly Muslims. A small part of the Hausa population also adheres to the ancient religion of Hausa Animism . Large Christian populations also exist in the north, mostly in the North Central, they were converted to Christianity after the colonisation of the country by the British. With fighting on both sides, there have been attacks by Fulani herdsmen on villages in

945-654: The North resulting in 6000 deaths since 2015, and Christian farmers have murdered Fulani and their livestock. 10°31′N 7°26′E  /  10.517°N 7.433°E  / 10.517; 7.433 North-Eastern State North-Eastern State is a former administrative division of Nigeria . It was created on 27 May 1967 from parts of the Northern Region . Its capital was the city of Maiduguri . On 3 February 1976, two states were carves out of North-Eastern state, namely Bauchi state and Gongola state , and

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990-514: The North, including eventually in the areas of foreign relations and customs policy. The Protectorate of Northern Nigeria was established by the British colonial administration in 1900, marking a significant chapter in Nigeria's colonial history. This entity encompassed the predominantly Muslim and Hausa-Fulani dominated regions of the north, distinct from the southern territories under direct British rule. The British aimed to consolidate control over

1035-678: The Northern Nigeria Protectorate, after 1914 the Lieutenant Governor, Chief Commissioner, or Governor-General of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, was effectively the viceroy of Northern Nigeria, exercising British suzerainty as representative of the Crown . The office of High Commissioner was first established on 1 January 1897, by letters patent from Queen Victoria. After the departure of

1080-615: The border with Cameroon , this montane land forms part of the Bamenda Highlands in Cameroon. The great savanna belt of the Great Plains of Hausaland dominates much of the rest of the province. this region experiences rainfall between 20 and 60 inches (508 and 1,524 mm) per year. The savanna zone's three categories are Guinean forest-savanna mosaic , Sudan savanna , and Sahel savanna . Guinean forest-savanna mosaic

1125-594: The company's capitalization to £100 000. He then managed to corral £ 1 000 000 in investments in a new concern—the National African Company —which bought up the UAC and its interests in 1882. The death of Léon Gambetta the same year deprived the French companies of their support within the French government and the strong subsidies it had been providing them. Goldie's cash-flush NAC

1170-634: The constabulary. The lower house of parliament, called the House of Assembly was composed of elected representatives from the various provinces of the country. The Upper House of parliament, called the House of Chiefs, was similar to the British House of Lords, composed of unelected emirs of the various Native Authority Councils of the nation's provinces. In 1967, the Federal Military Government of General Yakubu Gowon broke up

1215-466: The diverse regions of Nigeria, leveraging indirect rule through traditional Hausa rulers and Emirs. This strategy aimed to maintain stability while extracting resources for British interests. The Protectorate of Northern Nigeria evolved through administrative reforms and faced challenges such as resistance to colonial rule and socio-economic transformations. Northern Nigeria gained self-government on 15 March 1957 with Sir Ahmadu Bello as its first premier.

1260-527: The four regions that until then had constituted the Federation of Nigeria, creating twelve new states. Northern Nigeria was divided into the North-Eastern State , North-Western State , Kano State , Kaduna State , Kwara State , and the Benue-Plateau State , each with its own Governor and government. The High Commissioner or Governor of Northern Nigeria, originally the High Commissioner of

1305-518: The local Northern population, established a number of strong states in what is now Northern Nigeria and Eastern Niger. With the decline of the Nok and Sokoto, who had previously controlled Central and Northern Nigeria between 800 BCE and 200, the Hausa were able to emerge as the new power in the region. They are closely linked with the Kanuri people of Kanem-Bornu ( Lake Chad ), the Birom, Gwari, Nupe and Jukun. The Hausa aristocracy , under influence from

1350-637: The main manufacturing sector. And also, irrigation plant at Dadin Kowa Dam in Gombe State (present day Gombe State). Northern Nigeria though an ethnically and religiously diverse region, is an overwhelmingly majority Muslim region. The Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri dominate much of the North Western and Eastern part of the country while the Yoruba , Nupe , Tiv , Igala and Idoma are dominant in

1395-568: The protectorate after some years, serving in Hong Kong , but was eventually returned to work in Nigeria, where in 1914 he sought the merger of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate with Southern Nigeria , creating the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria . Agitation for independence from the radically different Southern Protectorate, however, led to a formidable split in the 1940s. The Richards constitution proclaimed in 1945, gave overwhelming autonomy to

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1440-524: The province of Kano provided the main source of revenue for Northern Nigeria. Tin mining in the Province of Plateau , Steel mining in the Province of Benue, and other metal industries in the Province of Sokoto, built up the diverse mining industry of the region. Cement industries in Sokoto , Bauchi and Ashaka cement at Gombe (present day Funakaye LGA) other processing industries in Kano constituted

1485-637: The region in 1877, George Goldie argued for the amalgamation of the surviving British firms into a single monopolistic chartered company , a method contemporaries supposed had been buried with the ultimate failure of the East India Company following the Sepoy Rebellion . By 1879, he had helped combine James Crowther's WAC, David Macintosh's Central African Company , and the Williams Brothers' and James Pinnock's firms into

1530-404: The region included Ogidi , Iyamoye, Iyara that have deep forests inter spacing the guinea savannah areas (and borders the forested areas of southern protectorate and as such shared similar rain patterns and given to the cultivation of cash crops such as coffee and cocoa). Northern Nigeria was divided into thirteen provinces: Kano, the largest of the provinces in terms of population and economy,

1575-534: The region with the consent of local rulers through a policy of indirect rule , which he developed into a sophisticated political theory. The geographical area included in the Northern Nigeria Protectorate included the Okun-Yoruba land of Kabba, Ogidi, Ijumu, Gbede, Yagba, as well as Ebira land, Igala land fashioned collectively under Kabba Province. The Ifelodun, Offa, Omuaran, Ifelodun and Irepodun areas, also Yorubas, were fashioned into Ilorin province. Lugard left

1620-449: The remaining portion of thr North-Eastern state was renamed to Borno state . The North-Eastern state was divided into Bauchi , Borno and Gongola states. Gombe State was later split out of Bauchi, Yobe State from Borno and Gongola was split into Taraba State and Adamawa State . This Nigeria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Royal Niger Company The Royal Niger Company

1665-577: The success of the Pleiad' s first mission in 1854 led to annual trips under Baikie and the 1857 foundation of Lokoja at the Niger–Benue confluence. There were no voyages for the three years following Laird's death, but the establishment of the West African Company was soon followed by several other firms. The competition reduced prices to the point that profits were minimal. Arriving in

1710-575: Was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. It was formed in 1879 as the United African Company and renamed to National African Company in 1881 and to Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1929, the company became part of the United Africa Company , which came under the control of Unilever during the 1930s and continued to exist as a subsidiary of Unilever until 1987, when it

1755-544: Was absorbed into the parent company. The company existed for a comparatively short time (1879–1900) but was instrumental in the formation of Colonial Nigeria , as it enabled the British Empire to establish control over the lower Niger  against the German competition led by Bismarck during the 1890s. In 1900, the company-controlled territories became the Southern Nigeria Protectorate , which

1800-565: Was in turn united with the Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914 (which eventually gained independence within the same borders as Nigeria in 1960). The Royal Niger Company was eventually integrated into Unilever . Richard Lander first explored the area of Nigeria as the servant of Hugh Clapperton . In 1830, he returned to the river with his brother John ; in 1832, he returned again (without his brother) to establish

1845-511: Was lured onto a British warship and shipped into exile on Saint Vincent on charges of "treaty breaking" and "obstructing commerce". Despite treaties extending British control over the tribes of the Cameroons , however, Britain was willing to recognize the German colony that usurped the area in 1885 as a check on French activity in the upper Congo and Ubangi watersheds. The scruples of

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1890-663: Was predominantly trade-related and revolved around the expansion of the Royal Niger Company , whose interior territories spread north from about where the Niger River and Benue River joined at Lokoja the Mount Patti hill. The Royal Niger Company's territory did not represent a direct threat to much the Sokoto Caliphate or the numerous states of Northern Nigeria. This changed, when Frederick Lugard and Taubman Goldie laid down an ambitious plan to pacify

1935-417: Was repulsed with help from HMS Pioneer , but the Gladstone administration subsequently denied Goldie's attempt to procure a government charter in 1881, on the grounds that the international rivalry might occasion unnecessary conflict and that the united firm was undercapitalized for the expense of genuine colonial administration. Goldie first began addressing the administration's concerns by increasing

1980-423: Was revoked in 1899 and, on 1 January 1900, the Royal Niger Company transferred its territories to the British Government for the sum of £ 865,000. The ceded territory together with the small Niger Coast Protectorate , already under imperial control, was formed into the two protectorates of Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria . The company changed its name to The Niger Company Ltd and in 1929 became part of

2025-439: Was then able to maintain 30 trading posts along the river, and ruin its competition in a two-year price war: by October 1884 all three had permitted him to buy out their interests in the region and the NAC's annual report for 1885 was able to crow that it "remained alone in undisputed commercial possession of the Niger–Binué region". This monopoly permitted Britain to resist French and German calls to internationalize trade on

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