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The Mount Patti Hill is a 1503 foot-tall (458 m) mountain and tourist attraction in Lokoja, Nigeria. It is famous for being the place where British journalist and writer Flora Louise Shaw (later Flora Lugard) gave Nigeria its name. [1] [2] The name was coined by Flora Shaw in 1914 when
The unification of Nigeria helped to give Nigeria common telegraphs, railways, customs and excise duties, uniform time, [132] a common currency [133] and a common civil service. [134] Lugard thus introduced what was needed for the infrastructure of a modern state.
Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the largest in Africa.
In an essay that first appeared in The Times on 8 January 1897, by "Miss Shaw", she suggested the name "Nigeria" for the British Protectorate on the Niger River. [2] In her essay, Shaw made the case for a shorter term that would be used for the "agglomeration of pagan and Mahomedan States" to replace the official title, " Royal Niger Company ...
The adoption of the name signified Nigeria's transition from a British colony to a fully sovereign state. [15] The term "Federal" reflects Nigeria's structure as a federation of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, whereas "Republic" indicates its system of government in which officials are elected and the country is considered a public ...
A referendum is held in the British Cameroons, resulting in the Northern Cameroons joining Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons joining Cameroon. 1962: Tennessee Nigeria receives offshore oil license. 1963: 1 October: Nigeria severed its remaining ties to Britain, marking the birth of the Nigerian First Republic. Amoseas and Gulf receive offshore ...
The Europeans gave this city the name "Old Calabar" for unknown reasons. [3] The city became a center of the slave trade, where slaves were exchanged for European goods. [ 4 ] Most of the slave ships that transported slaves from Calabar were English; about 85% of these were owned by merchants based in Bristol and Liverpool . [ 5 ]
Colonial Nigeria was ruled by the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1 October 1960 when Nigeria achieved independence. [8] Britain annexed Lagos in 1861 and established the Oil River Protectorate in 1884.