Catalogue description Colonial Office: Southern Nigeria Protectorate Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 520
Title: Colonial Office: Southern Nigeria Protectorate Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.
Date: 1900-1913
Related material:

For earlier correspondence relating to the Niger Coast Protectorate see CO 444

For correspondence after 1913 see CO 583

For earlier correspondence relating to Lagos see CO 147
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 131 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

For a register to correspondence see CO 589

Administrative / biographical background:

In 1900 territory formally under the jurisdiction of the Royal Niger Company was united with the Niger Coast Protectorate to form the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. In 1914 Southern and Northern Nigeria were united to form the British colony of Nigeria.

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