Northern Nigeria

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Identifikator:: 863607721

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45464

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry http://d-nb.info/gnd/117667412

Title:: Northern Nigeria

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Maj. Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1907

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (65 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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40 COLONIAL REPORTS—MISCELLANEOUS. Administrative Organization. Tlie province is divided into four administrative divisions: — (1.) The Bauchi Emirate (Mohammedan) including Ningi and Dass tribes; headquarters Bauchi. (2.) The Gombe Emirate (Mohammedan) including JNafada and Gongola tribes ; headquarters Gombe. (3.) Kanna includes Kanna, Duguri, Duguri Eree, Dan, and Kantana; headquarters Kanna. (4.) Bukuru includes Jengre-Jos, Buhaba, Bukuru, Kwoll, Vom, Boss, and Ngell; headquarters Bukuru. The Bauchi Emirate comprises 13 districts under headmen (who were formerly fief-holders and office-holders at the capital, but are now resident in the districts, and visit the capital twice yearly) together with Ningi (four districts and Dass eight districts, 33 towns). The Gombe division occupies the east, and comprises 11 fief-holders, who will become district heads, but the creation of districts is not yet completed. The Kanna division comprises five districts (calling Kanna itself only one, it will probably be sub-divided) forming a single unit, and numbering 101 towns. The Bukuru division comprises a great number of pagan tribes in the west and south-west ; 34 towns are assessed in 14 units, but no districts can as yet be formed, and the tribes pay direct to Government. Consolidation of Districts. The Emir was at first nervous about the decentralization involved in appointing headmen of districts, but is beginning to see the advantage of its gradual introduction. The former fief-holders are absorbed as district headmen in the Bauchi Emirate, but there are 24 representatives of independent towns or clans who do not acknowledge the authority of the district headmen These are allowed to live at the capital, and pay the taxes of their towns direct. It is hoped that they will gradually be absorbed in their districts which, at present, therefore, are not self-contained. Districts have not been finally settled in Gombe, and efforts are being made to group the pagan tribes under chiefs as district headmen. Office Holders. A separate income is at present only assigned to one office holder at the capital, viz., the Serikin Yara. The others are practically all absorbed as district headmen. m : % . ' . ' . - The General Tax. All the old native taxes (except jangali) are included. In the two (Mohammedan) Emirates the tax is shared equally

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