Colonial Nigeria1919· £4,959,429 revenue · £4,529,176 spent· Chapter I · Money
The post-war produce boom. Revenue: £4,959,429. Expenditure: £4,529,176.
Actual outturn as reported after the year closed, not the estimate voted at the start of it.
• Revenue: £4,959,429 • Expenditure: £4,529,176
The post-war produce boom.
Colonial figures are in sterling; hyphenated years (e.g. 1925-26) are April–March financial years. What counts as 'revenue' changed over time — the railway was included from 1925-26 and excluded again from 1936-37 — so compare neighbouring years with care.
What it cost — political & economic reality
Nigeria in 1919: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.
British colonial administration
1900–1960
National reality
Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates (1914) under indirect rule. Marketing boards extracted cocoa, palm oil and groundnut surpluses; political agitation built through the press and the trade union movement.
Crises of the period
GDP (World Bank)
Pre-independence; no national accounts series
Cabinet (selected portfolios)
Full ministerial roster being compiled.
Government administered by Governors-General and Residents. The first indigenous federal ministers were appointed under the 1954 Lyttelton Constitution.
Source · Toyin Falola, A History of Nigeria (CUP, 2008)
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.