Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria

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British protectorate former British colony historical political entity

The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was a British colonial entity in West Africa that unified several previously separate territories into what later became the modern nation-state of Nigeria.

Aliases (7)

British Nigeria ×2
Federation of Nigeria ×2
British Protectorate of Southern Nigeria ×1
British colonial rule in Northern Nigeria ×1
Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria ×1
Protectorate of Northern Nigeria ×1
Southern Protectorate of Nigeria ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British protectorate → former British colony → historical political entity →
borderedBy	Cameroons → French West Africa →
capital	Lagos →
colonialAdministrationCenter	Lagos →
colonialPower	United Kingdom NERFINISHED →
colonialStatus	crown colony and protectorate →
containedEthnicGroup	Fulani → Hausa → Igbo → Ijaw → Kanuri → Yoruba →
country	Nigeria →
currency	British West African pound →
endDate	1960-10-01 →
establishedBy	amalgamation of the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria →
export	cocoa → groundnuts → palm oil → tin →
flag	Flag of Nigeria under British rule →
governmentType	colonial administration →
headOfStateTitle	Monarch of the United Kingdom →
includedRegion	Eastern Nigeria NERFINISHED → Lagos Colony → Northern Nigeria NERFINISHED → Western Nigeria NERFINISHED →
independenceDate	1960-10-01 →
independenceFrom	United Kingdom →
introducedSystem	indirect rule →
legalSystem	English common law →
locatedIn	Africa → West Africa →
mainReligion	Christianity → Islam → traditional African religions →
officialLanguage	English →
partOf	British Empire →
predecessor	Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria → Protectorate of Northern Nigeria →
reasonForEnd	independence of Nigeria →
representativeOfHeadOfStateTitle	Governor →
sovereignState	United Kingdom →
startDate	1914-01-01 →
successor	Federation of Nigeria → Nigeria →
usedFor	resource extraction →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bornu Empire ("British colonial rule in Northern Nigeria") → Sokoto Caliphate ("British Nigeria") →	followedBy
Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria ("Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria") → Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria ("Protectorate of Northern Nigeria") →	predecessor
Oyo ("British Nigeria") →	colonialEraIncorporation
Nigeria, We Hail Thee ("Federation of Nigeria") →	countryAtAdoption
Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria ("Federation of Nigeria") →	successor
Kingdom of Benin ("British Protectorate of Southern Nigeria") →	successorState
Calabar ("Southern Protectorate of Nigeria") →	wasCapitalOf
Northern Nigeria →	wasMergedInto