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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TAXATION OF NATIVES IN NORTHERN NIGERIA. 43 NURE. Native Rulers and Communities. There are four Principal Chiefs, the Emirs of Bida, Lapai, and Agaie, and the Kuta. There are also some independent com munities who pay to no principal chief, but through their own district heads. There are no unsettled districts. Administrative Organization. There are three administrative divisions, of -which the first includes the bulk of the province : — (1.) The first division includes five units : the Bida Emi rate (2G districts, 1,204 farms); the Kedi, or river population, under the Kuta (four districts and 122 farms) ; the Kakanda (river) (one district, 15 farms) ; the independent villages near Jebba (one district 16 towns); and the section of the Gwari tribe (six districts and 12 towns) ; total, 38 districts and 1,369 villages or farms. (2.) The second division includes the Emirate of Agaie with 10 districts and 318 villages or farms, all pay ing through Agaie. (3.) The third comprises two units, viz., the Emirate of Lapai (eight districts, 244 farms) ; and Sakka (three district#, 93 farms). Total, three divisions, eight units, 59 districts, and 2,024 villages or farms. The formation of districts is not yet completed and headmen have yet to be appointed in the densely populated area around Bida, but temporary groups have been made under village headmen. Consolidation of Districts. The old fief-holders have been abolished; they numbered 76. Their soreness has now disappeared, and the districts are all self-contained. Some of them are retained as office-holders, but none would leave the capital to become district heads. The Emirates here, as in all provinces, comprise two separate classes : (a) the farmers of the densely populated home districts near the capitals, chiefly Mohammedan; and (b) the outlying and tributary pagans. The latter are already divided into districts under headmen. They have hitherto paid unit by unit to the Emir, but in future will pay through the district head. The former owned allegiance to various chiefs at the capital indi viduals in a single village often acknowledging different chiefs or patrons to whom they paid. The abolition of this system, and the substitution of district headmen having executive

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