Niger Coast Protectorate

Oil Rivers Protectorate (1884-1893) Niger Coast Protectorate (1893-1900)
Protectorate of the British Empire
1884–1900
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem God Save the Queen
Capital		Old Calabar
Languages		English and various local languages
Religion		Christianity, Yoruba religion, Islam, African traditional religion
Government		Colonial administration
Monarch
•	1884-1900	Victoria
Historical era		New Imperialism
•	Established	1884
•	Disestablished	1 January 1900
Currency		Pound sterling
Succeeded by Southern Nigeria Protectorate

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, 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 of 1894.

References

• Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa (Random House, 1991), pp. 197–199