Annual report on Nigeria / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1949]
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Credit: Annual report on Nigeria / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    units, sanitary facilities, swamp reclamation, inter-village communications, and village planning. In November the Cameroons under U.K. Trusteeship were visited by a Visiting Mission of the Trusteeship Council, composed of mem¬ bers from Iraq, Belgium, Mexico and the United States of America. The Mission’s terms of reference required it “ to observe the develop¬ ing political, economic, social and educational conditions in the Territory, its progress towards self-government or independence and the efforts of the Administering Authority to achieve this and other basic objectives of the International Trusteeship System ”. The Mission was also authorised to receive, and, where necessary, investi¬ gate petitions. It visited many parts of the Trust Territory, and in particular enquired into the petition presented to the United Nations in 1948 by the Bakweri Tribe for the return of certain lands stated to have been acquired by the Germans and alienated during the period of German rule. Its report was received early in 1950.