Niger Coast Protectorate

Oil Rivers Protectorate (1884–1893) Niger Coast Protectorate (1893–1900)
1884–1900
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: God Save the Queen
Status	Protectorate of the British Empire
Capital	Old Calabar
Common 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.

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