04/08/2025
WHAT LORD LUGARD SAID ABOUT THESE TRIBES ON 25th of September 1918.
HAUSA:
The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself.
YORUBA:
I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met.
IGBO:
These people of predominantly Eastern Nigeria are fiercely rebellious with no regard for royal's authority. Though industrious and religious, indeference to the objectives of her majesty and the crown.
