Royal Niger Company

Royal Niger Company

British company
      19th-century British mercantile company that operated in the lower valley of the Niger River in West Africa. It extended British influence in what later became Nigeria.

      In 1885 Sir George Goldie's National African Company, an amalgamation of British companies, signed treaties with the Nigerian emirs of Sokoto and Gando (1885) by which it hoped to secure access to the Benue River and to Lake Chadan avenue of expansion that the Germans, operating from the Cameroons, were preparing to close.

      In 1886 the company received a charter of incorporation as the Royal Niger Company and was authorized to administer the Niger delta and the country on the banks of the Niger and Benue rivers. It engaged in a three-way strugglewith the French to the west and the Germans to the southeastfor the trade of the central Sudan.

      The company imposed prohibitive dues on the people of Brass, in the Niger delta, who wished to trade at their traditional markets in the company's territory, and it incurred such hostility that in 1895 its establishment at Akassa was attacked. In the north, it did not manage to subdue the Fulani empire, but it did conquer several emirates and compelled them to recognize its suzerainty.

      The continuation of the company's commercial and territorial disputes with France, together with continuing complaints from the people of Brass, led to the transference of the company's charter to the imperial British government on Dec. 31, 1899.

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