Royal Niger Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/01/2019

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00:00:58 1 United African Company
00:03:29 2 National African Company
00:06:15 3 Niger Company
00:07:17 4 See also



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The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. It was formed in 1879 as the United African Company  and renamed to National African Company in 1881 and to Royal Niger Company in 1886.
The company existed for a comparatively short time (1879–1900) but was instrumental in the formation of Colonial Nigeria, as it enabled the British Empire to establish control over the lower Niger against the German competition led by Bismarck during the 1890s. In 1900, the company-controlled territories became the Southern Nigeria Protectorate, which was in turn united with the Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914 (which eventually gained independence within the same borders as the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1960).