JAMB - History (2019 - No. 44)
The Royal Niger Company was influential in the formation of Colonial Nigeria because it
enabled the British Empire to establish control over and above its German competitor
paved way for the emergence of the National African Company
served as a means of economic development and investment in Nigeria
encouraged the adoption of the Indirect Rule Policy
Explicación
The Royal Niger Company enabled the British Empire to establish control over the lower Niger against the German competition led by Bismarck in the 1890s.Its company-controlled territories were made Protectorates and later amalgamated as the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.