The ''Government Gazette of the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria'' was the

government gazette A government gazette (also known as an official gazette, official journal, official newspaper, official monitor or official bulletin) is a periodical publication that has been authorised to publish public or legal notices. It is usually establis ...

for the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. It was published at Old Calabar between 1900 and 1906.SOUTHERN NIGERIA (BRITISH PROTECTORATE)
CRL Foreign Official Gazette Database, 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014
Archived here.
/ref> Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria, formed in 1900 from union of the

Niger Coast Protectorate The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year. It was renamed on 12 ...

with territories chartered by the

Royal Niger Company The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. It was formed in 1879 as the ''United African Company '' and renamed to ''National African Company'' in 1881 and to ''Royal Niger C ...

below Lokoja on the

Niger River The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through ...

. It was continued by the '' Southern Nigeria Government Gazette'' when Southern Nigeria became the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria in 1906.

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Nigeria official publications at the British Library
Publications established in 1900 Publications disestablished in 1906 Colonial Nigeria History of Nigeria Government gazettes of Nigeria {{nigeria-newspaper-stub

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