Colonial Nigeria
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Colonial Nigeria formed part of the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1 October 1960, when Nigeria achieved independence. Britain annexed Lagos in 1861 and established the Oil River
Queen Victoria on a stamp of the Niger Coast Protectorate, 1894
British stamps used in 1898 at Akassa by the Royal Niger Company
The British Colonial Office in Westminster, created in the 1860s by architect George Gilbert Scott; illustrated in 1875
Contemporary photograph of the same building, now housing the Foreign, Commonwealth and Office
Lagos Colony
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Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria. Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the threat of force by Commander Beddingfield of H
Colonial Nigeria
…Nigeria formed part of the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1 October 1960, when Nigeria achieved independence. Britain annexed Lagos in 1861 and established the Oil River Protectorate in 1884. British influence in the Niger area increased gradually in the course of the 19th century…
Southern and Northern Nigeria c. 1914
Brass head of a Yoruba king from Ife, 13th century
Counterattack during the Reduction of Lagos (1851–1852)
Richard Francis Burton, opponent of missionary activity in the colony