CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -F. D. Lugard, later Baron Lugard (of Abinger), (born Jan. 22, 1858, Fort St. George, Madras, India-died April 11, 1945, Abinger, Surrey, Eng.), British colonial administrator. In Nigeria he served as high commissioner (1900–06) and governor and governor-general (1912–19).

Detailed explanation-2: -Lugard’s greatest contribution to the making of Modern Nigeria was the successful amalgamation of the North and South in 1914. Even after the amalgamation, the two parts remained as two separate countries with separate administrations.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lord Lugard was Governor-General of Nigeria from 1914–1919. He was succeeded by Hugh Clifford.

Detailed explanation-4: -On January 1, 1914, Lord Frederick Lugard, the governor of both the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, signed a document consolidating the two, thereby creating the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Forty-six years later in 1960, Nigeria became an independent state.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1912, Frederick Lugard was appointed Governor-General of both Southern and Northern Nigeria with the mandate to unite the two Protectorates. His main mission was to complete the amalgamation into one colony.