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Lokoja
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Lokoja is the capital city of Kogi State located in central Nigeria, and is a port on Niger River.[1]
It was the capital of British Northern Nigeria Protectorate and remained a convenient administrative town for the British colonial government after the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria Protectorates into one nation called Nigeria in 1914. [2]
The first Governor General Lord Frederick Lugard ruled the new nation of Nigeria from Lokoja town. The city has since grown to an estimated 63,075 inhabitants, [3] an it is a centre of trade of its agricultural region because it sits at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers. [1] Lokoja is also close to the new Federal capital of Abuja. Near Lokoja (in Ajaokuta) are metallurgy facilities and iron ore mines.
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