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Lugard Hall

government building, Kaduna, Nigeria
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Lugard Hall is the legislative assembly building in Kaduna, Nigeria, constructed in a simplified Islamic style. It is situated at the head of the main street in Kaduna, a city that became the capital of Northern Nigeria in 1917, replacing Zungeru. Sir Frederick Lugard, the first British governor of Northern Nigeria, selected the site for the town along the Lagos-Kano Railway, with construction beginning in 1913. The assassination of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the premier of Northern Nigeria, in Lugard Hall in 1966 was a pivotal event that led to the Nigerian Civil War.1

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