Originally, the country now known as Nigeria was treated as two distinct and separate countries but the two were merged to further entrench the colonial dominance over the area for the sake of propagating the hegemonic tendencies of the British Colonial Administration and was principally geared towards enhancing the economic base of the United Africa Company FORMED IN 1879 WHICH WAS TO LATER ASSUME A NEW NAME, Royal Niger Company in 1882.
Governor Clifford was succeeded by Governor’s Cameron and Bernard Bourdillon. Sad enough they left no remarkable imprints on the sands of constitutional development. Before he finally left the shores of Nigeria in 1943, all that Bourdillon succeeded in making were constitutional proposals.Sir Arthur Richards succeeded Sir Bernard Bourdillon and introduced constitutional reforms in 1946.
The main critique of Macpherson Constitution was that it sought to operate the country like a unitary state. The Federal Constitution of 1954 for the first time made provision for an exclusive legislative list reserved for the federal legislature. There was also a concurrent list containing matters that could be legislated upon by the federal and the regional legislatures. Items which were neither stipulated in the exclusive nor concurrent lists were reserved for the regions. These were residual matters.
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