Nigeria's Sale: A Betrayal of History

Nigeria Was Sold for Just £865,000 They say Nigeria was sold by a man named George Goldie

— for only £865,000. Sounds impossible, right? But it happened. And it wasn’t just

a sale — it was a betrayal wrapped in contracts, stamps, and signatures.

Let’s go back to the late 1800s, when Britain and other European powers were scrambling

for Africa. One man — Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie — saw an opportunity.

He founded the Royal Niger Company, a private trading empire that slowly became more powerful

than local kings. Goldie convinced over 400 African rulers to sign “treaties” they barely understood,

handing over control of their land and trade to his company. Then, in 1886,