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TIL the name "Nigeria" was coined by Flora Shaw, the wife of the first Governor-General of Nigeria (1914-1919) Fredrick Lugard, for the British Protectorate on the Niger River. Lugard had merged the Northern and Southern Protectorates to form one country.

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