The Royal Niger company was a merchant company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century, the had to pay the sum of 865,000 pounds to take over all the trading areas in what they consolidated in readiness for the annexation of southern protectorate with the northern protectorate.

In the question of paying the 865,000pounds at that time, and up till date they are still own the piece of property which they bought. Nigeria is a business venture as they created it at that time and as it is, still we have not moved from where we were as of the time they created this union.

It started during the time when it was the trade of the era to go to wherever you can and beat the civilization down and take whatever you can, the British came towards the Lagos colony in 1861, they came towards the water front and entered into trade treaties and protection treaties with some of those trading partners in bits and batches.

The 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria was as a result of a fight between the British and the jihad that invaded the northern Nigeria from Sokoto over the tussle to conquer and control more territories, the fight ended when they came together to form an agreement to consolidate the resources they both control in their regions and share the benefits of owning them permanently, since then they are both on the same mission to make Nigeria their own over the heads of the owners of the lands.

The discussion to merge the southern parts with the northern parts were strictly between the British and the caliphate, which means that for 15 years that they were working to merge them, attending series of meetings and exchanges, they were both tiptoeing over the heads of the owners of the lands. It was kept secret until a German newspaper leaked it in the first time on the 26th of December 1913.

What they reported as an amalgamation (the coming together of equals) was actually an annexation. Quoting from the telegram of the then secretary of the colony Mr Harcourt, the one which Port Harcourt was names after, in explaining what was about to happen the day before it became public;..Read More