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Niger Coast 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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