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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ïaxatioN of Natives in Northern nïgèrîà. 55 get accustomed to decentralization, and for the district heads to learn to use their authority, and do useful work. The people are pleased, but the tax is at present somewhat heavy. There is no extortion, as each village knows exactly what it has to pay. The tax has, on the whole, been very well received. KONTAGORA. Native Rulers and Communities. There is only one Principal Chief, the Emir of Kontagora, and the territory included in this Emirate is only a very small part of the whole province. The remainder is placed under five independent district headmen, including the unsettled Dakakerri tribe in the north. Administrative Organization. There are s’x administrative divisions : Kontagora, Yelwa, Ivwiambana, Zuguma, Kotonkoro and Sakaba. These should be reduced to two or at most three, viz., Kontagora and Zuguma (and possibly either Yelwa or Sakaba). Kontagora comprises 16 districts under headmen, and each of the others is under a district head; total 21. There are thus six units of taxation and 493 towns or villages. Jakadas still receive the tax, but this will be discontinued. District heads all reside in their districts. Consolidation of Districts. This province was not divided into fiefs as most others were. The Emir’s capital was merely a war camp. The new districts under their own chiefs are, I understand, self-contained. Office Holders. Though the Emirate of Kontagora is a very small one, and its adult population is only 21,600, there are 16 office-holders, who are paid salaries amounting to £42, and 10 others paid by the Emir out of his net income. Owing to the fact that the Emir of Kontagora and all his chiefs fled after their defeat, and remained absent for a very long time, there were special opportunities in this province for abolishing these useless titles and offices, and refusing to reconstitute them. In other Emirates they have, for the most part, been absorbed as district heads, or (as in Nupe) simply disallowed. If Kontagora is absorbed in the double province of Zaria this matter will be dealt with.

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