Pardon me?!, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu from (rahim7867 )

In September 1887, Harry Johnston, acting consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharfs of the Niger Delta, King Jaja of Opobo on the rather dubious charge of “obstruction of trade”. It accused King Jaja of violating a trade treaty with the British, which did not, however, have any […]

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