Chaired by Sir Stafford Foster-Sutton (Chief Justice, Federation). Investigated Premier Azikiwe's role as a shareholder of ACB which received Eastern Region Government deposits. Found misconduct as a public officer; no criminal liability. Politically damaging but no formal sanction.
Colonial / Federal1956· Status: Partial· Chapter II · Law
Foster-Sutton Tribunal
Investigation into Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe's interest in the African Continental Bank. Found 'misconduct' but no criminal liability.
Sources
- · Foster-Sutton Tribunal Report (1957)
What it cost — political & economic reality
The political and economic reality
Nigeria in 1956: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.
British colonial administration
Sir Frederick Lugard → Sir James Robertson
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
- Aba Women's War (1929)
- Iva Valley shooting of striking miners (1949)
- Kano riots (1953)
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)
Methodology
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Redline
Wikipedia is never a source.