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defining characteristic of administration in Northern Nigeria Protectorate was the inclusion of chiefs and emirsincluding the emir of Bornuas "native authorities" fitting into British administration (cf. the similar practice with chiefs, rajas, and maharajas in British India). Taxation proved very difficult in the protectorate for the first years of British rule. Lugard's attempts to institute poll taxes

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