Today 1st of October, 2023 marks Nigeria's 63rd Year of Independence. 63 years after been freed from colonial rule by Britain, Nigeria is indeed standing strong with a population of over 200 million people and an uninterrupted democracy that's already lasted for 24 years not a lot, but for Nigerians it's a milestone considering the 33 years spent in military rule. Now for most people the fore mentioned information is common but there is a much more popular question ask on every Independence Day celebration- how developed is the country since from 1960- it is also no secret that the answer to this question is much more negative than positive. But today we are not going to talk about the development status of the country but rather the most important and glaring issue the country has faced since 1960, "unity". In 1914 the British colonial administration led by Lord Lugard fused together three regions from Western Africa, the conservative Nothern Nigeria Prote
EDUCATION AND EXCLUSION It is clear from early Arabic sources that traders who migrated into Hausa-land followed a traditional pattern of settlement in the "strangers quarters". They were usually under the immediate authority of their leaders but still ultimately subject to the sovereign authority of their host. After 1911 the British Administration established a more rigid segregation of this areas from the local population. By 1914 Sabon Gari settlements, populated primarily by Southerners that worked for the railroad system as government clerks and employees of the European firms were well established in Kano and Zaria. In 1914 the township ordinance which regularized the Sabon Gari system officially established the areas as second class townships throughout Northern Nigeria. In the South Sabon Gari was located within the city walls, in the North they were usually outside the city thereby providing a distinct physical separation between the indigenous community and the str