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The Benue rises in the Adamawa Plateau of northern Cameroon, from where it flows west, and through the town of Garoua and Lagdo Reservoir, into Nigeria south of the Mandara mountains, and through Jimeta, Ibi and Makurdi before meeting the Niger River at Lokoja.
History of Nigeria. This is a timeline of Nigerian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Nigeria and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Nigeria. See also the list of heads of state of Nigeria.
The river Niger remained a wonder to the first Europeans who set foot on Nigeria’s soil until John and Richard Landers passed through the confluence on October 25th 1830 thereby completing the journey that Mungo Park had started.
Nigerians is the area of the Benue-Cross river watershed from where, according to the theories of Joseph Greenberg, the ancestors of the Bantu-speakers of Africa set off in their successful bid to conquer and tame the entire southern
21 wrz 2024 · Benue River, river in western Africa, longest tributary of the Niger, about 673 miles (1,083 km) in length. It rises in northern Cameroon as the Bénoué at about 4,400 feet (1,340 metres) and, in its first 150 miles (240 km), descends more than 2,000 feet (600 metres) over many falls and rapids, the
28 lip 2024 · The realization of the importance of River Benue to African development and Nigerian growth has sparked scholarly interest and calls for further epistemological expansion.
EXPANSION ON THE BENUE 1830-1900 A Review of the Exploration and Commercial History of the River Benue , with special reference to the Administration of the Royal Niger Company . by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene Although European traders had been in touch with the Bight of Benin since the end of the XV century, there appears to have been
