Adubi WarNigeria · 1918“Draw near — the atlas keeps this thread, and tonight the fire lends it a voice.”Abeokuta held a rare thing under the British flag: treaty-recognised self-rule, the Egba United Government. Then came Lugard's amalgamation, forced labour for the war, and new direct taxes — and in June 1918 thirty thousand Egba rose, tearing up the railway and dropping its telegraph poles like harvest stalks.