摘要：This paper examines a number of social welfare strategies that were introduced in Lagos by the British colonial administrators to arrest the alarming rate of mass poverty in Lagos during the period under review. Essentially, the paper draws heavily on archival data to specifically address colonial policies such as repatriation, rehabilitation, provision of employment opportunities as well as the regulation of the working conditions of poor people in Lagos. The paper submits that these policies were discriminatory and not properly implemented, hence, rather than alleviate poverty, urban unemployment and its attendant social consequences became the order of the day
