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Two Protectorates Become One Nation

Nigeria North South Protectorate Confluence River Lakoja

What is now called the country of Nigeria consists primarily of what was once two separate entities- the protectorate of Northern Nigeria and the protectorate of Southern Nigeria. While the British for years had informally had strong influence in the area that is now Nigeria, after the Treaty of Berlin in 1885, they officially established […]