Is Nigeria not a British contraption? During the colonial era, it was Lord Frederick Lugard, a one-time governor general of Nigeria, who cobbled Nigeria’s northern and southern protectorates together for administrative convenience. And his mistress, Flora Shaw, christened the place Nigeria. Nigeri
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