Oil Rivers Protectorate (1884–1893) Niger Coast Protectorate (1893–1900) | |||||||||
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| 1884–1900 | |||||||||
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Anthem: God Save the Queen | |||||||||
| Status | Protectorate of the United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Capital | Old Calabar | ||||||||
| Common languages | English and various local languages | ||||||||
| Religion | Christianity, Igbo religion, Islam, African traditional religion | ||||||||
| Government | Colonial administration | ||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||
• 1884—1900 | Victoria | ||||||||
| Consul General | |||||||||
• 1884-1891 | Edward Hyde Hewett | ||||||||
• 1891-1896 | Claude Maxwell MacDonald | ||||||||
• 1896-1900 | Ralph Moor | ||||||||
| Historical era | New Imperialism | ||||||||
• Established | 1884 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1 January 1900 | ||||||||
| Currency | Pound sterling | ||||||||
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The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year. It was renamed on 12 May 1893, and merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 1 January 1900 to form the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.
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Queen Victoria on a stamp of the Niger Coast Protectorate, 1894
References
- Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa (Random House, 1991), pp. 197–199
- StampWorldHistory
- Stamworld stamp