Royal Niger Company
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The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. It was formed in 1879 as the United African Company and renamed to National African Comp
George Goldie in 1898.
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
Royal Niger Company
…when it was absorbed into the parent company. The company existed for a comparatively short time (1879–1900) but was instrumental in the formation of Colonial Nigeria, as it enabled the British Empire to establish control over the lower Niger against German competition during the 1890s. In 1900, the company-controlled…
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