Zachariah
Banned
Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria, with a protectorate over most of Yorubaland established in the aftermath of prolonged wars between the mainland Yoruba states between 1890 and 1897. The colonial office wanted to amalgamate the Lagos Colony with the protectorate of Southern Nigeria, and in August 1904 appointed Walter Egerton, the last Governor of Lagos Colony, as High Commissioner for the Southern Nigeria Protectorate as well. He held both offices until 28 February 1906, when the two territories were amalgamated, with the combined territory called the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. And in 1914, the Governor-General Sir Frederick Lugard amalgamated this territory with the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria to form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. So, what if the Lagos Colony (and by extension, its own protectorate over Nigerian Yorubaland) had never been merged with Southern Nigeria, and had instead remained administered separately from both Southern Nigeria and Nigeria?