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Sokoto - LoveToKnow 1911 (1569 words) |
 | The sultan of Sokoto throughout the 19th century exercised an overlordship over the Hausa states extending east from the Niger to Bornu and southward to the Benue and Adamawa. |
| The province of Sokoto occupies the north-west corner of the British protectorate, and is bounded west and north by French territory. |
| The emir of Sokoto took an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and Sokoto became a British province, to which at a later period Gando was added as a subprovince - thus making of Sokoto one of the double provinces of the protectorate. |
| The Sultan of Sokoto | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited (675 words) |
| Born in Sokoto, he was the eldest son of Sir Siddiq Abubakar III, who ruled as Sultan from 1938 to 1988, spanning the later colonial period and the three turbulent decades after Nigeria's independence. |
| Although the succession in the sultanate depends on the kingmakers' choice from among the families of the descendants of Dan Fodio, Maccido always had the "electable" feel of a crown prince, and was given the title Sarkin Kudu (lord of the south). |
| In the course of Maccido's sultanate, Sokoto was to mark two significant anniversaries - one, in 2003, the sombre centenary of the surrender of the caliphate to Lord Lugard and British rule; the other, the celebration of the 200th centenary of the launch of Dan Fodio's famous jihad. |
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