Catalogue description Colonial Office: Northern Nigeria Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 446
Title: Colonial Office: Northern Nigeria Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Northern Nigeria.

Date: 1898-1913
Related material:

For correspondence after 1913 see CO 583

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 114 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers to correspondence see CO 584

Administrative / biographical background:

The Royal Niger Company began to encroach on Northern Nigeria from 1886. In 1899 the company's charter was surrendered to the British government and in 1900 became the protectorate of Northern Nigeria. In 1914 the Northern and Southern protectorates were merged to form the colony of Nigeria.

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