Najeriya a matsayin mulkin mallaka

Bayan da gwamnatin Biritaniya ta karbe iko da yankunan kamfanin Royal Niger Company kai tsaye, sai aka mayar da yankunan arewa suna zuwa ga kare Arewacin Najeriya, sannan kuma kasar da ke yankin Neja-Delta da gefen rafin ta kara da yankin Neja Coast Protectorate, wadda aka sauya mata suna zuwa ga kare Kudancin Najeriya. Legas ta kasance babban birnin kudu, tare da Zungeru sabon babban birnin arewa. A ranar 1 ga Janairu, 1914, bin shawarwarin Sir Frederick Lugard, an haɗa ƙungiyoyin kare biyu don kafa Mulkin Mallaka da Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Gwamna ɗaya a Legas. Tsakanin 1919 zuwa 1954 taken ya koma gwamna.