The paper examines the administrative policies and political actions of the earlier administrators in Nigeria. The account reveals that regional inequalities in the country evolved during the one hundred years 1861-1960 of British Colonial Administration. Nonetheless, the activities of various ethno-linguistic groups and petite bourgeoisie especially after political independence in 1960 reinforced and even aggravated the regional inequality formation. The policy recommendations in this paper call for individual and regional equity based on consensual sociopolitical and economic policies which are likely to promote a change that is desirable. Such policies include: people-centred development strategies for sustainable growth, distributive measures geared toward employment and income generation, abatement of ethnocentrism and the creation of regional balance through administrative decentralisation.
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