[9] The causes of the Egba-Dahomey War were rooted in the Dahomey Kingdom’s expansionist policies and the Egba people’s resistance to their territorial expansion.

The tension and conflicts spiralled as result of the territorial ambitions of the kingdom, under the leadership of Ghezo, who wanted to expand its influence and control over neighbouring states, including the Egba people.

The government was divided into several departments, including:[2][3][6] Tegumada Ademola (Gbadebo I) was the sixth Alake of Egba land who ruled from 1892 to 1920.

Gbadebo’s sovereignty was interrupted in 1914 with the termination of the Egba Unity Government, which educated elites had helped him arrange with his ascension to power.

There, he made acquaintance of King Edward VII of England who on the eve of his return to Lagos, presented him with a copy of the Bible.

As a member of the Egba council, he was a leading participant in negotiations with the Lagos State colonial government in 1889 for the rights to construct railway tracks passing through Egbaland.

Sir Olumuyiwa Jibowu, Kt (26 August 1899 – 1 June 1959) was a Nigerian jurist who was the first African to serve on the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

His son William Alfred Allen was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and in 1845 was brought back to LAGOS and later ABEOKUTA by his Father at the age of 10 years in December, 1854.

He played a key role in convincing the Egba rulers in leasing land to the Colonial Government for the establishment of the First railway line from Lagos to Abeokuta.

With the success of the EUG, the Egbas have continued to produce trusted, dependent and sound Administrators in different spheres of National, State and Local Governments, Education, International bodies, Private business and so on.

John Payne Jackson (25 March 1848 – 1 August 1915) was an Americo-Liberian journalist, born in Liberia who was influential in Lagos, Nigeria around the turn of the 20th century.

These challenges included internal conflicts and power struggles, external pressures from British colonial authorities, and economic difficulties.

Its independence did not last long, as the nature of the government, which placed constraints on the power of the king, was antithetical to Frederick Lugard's vision of "indirect rule."

He therefore had it dissolved under the pretext that the king and his chiefs invited the British monarch to serve as their protector in the aftermath of a period of internal civil strife in the early part of the 20th century.

[6] In 1914, the Egba United Government was eventually absorbed into the British colonial administration, marking the end of its existence as a separate entity.

[6][3] The government helped to establish a modern system of administration, which included departments such as foreign affairs, justice, finance, public works, and education.