About The Book

Kogi State Books of Record is an encyclopaedia of amazing records, event and the great people of Kogi State. This book will unveil to you in detail all you ever want to know about Kogi State. Kogi State Books of Record establishes Agriculture as the mainstay of Kogi State economy. There are many farm produce from the state notably coffee, cocoa, palm oil, cashews, groundnuts, maize, cassava, yam, rice and melon.

The state was created in 1991 from parts of Kwara State and Benue State. Igala is the majority ethnic group in the state. The state as presently constituted, comprises the people of the Kabba Province of Northern Nigeria. One of the first Qadi in the Kogi State was Faruk Imam.

There are three main ethnic groups and languages in Kogi: Igala, Ebira, and Okun (a Yoruba Group) with others such as Bassa Nge of Bassa L.G.A, Kupa and Kakanda speakers, who are a people of Nupe extraction under Lokoja L.G.A., Bassa-Komo which is also of Bassa Local Government Area, Oworo people (A Yoruba Group), Igbo, Ogori Magongo, and Idoma.

Kogi State Books of Record will reveal to you that, the name Nigeria, was coined in Lokoja by Flora Shaw in the hill of Mount Patti, the future wife of Baron Lugard, a British colonial administrator, while gazing out at the river Niger. Tourist attractions in Kogi State as established in Kogi State Books of Record include the colonial relics (such as Lord Lugard House), Mount Patti, World War Cenotaph, the confluence of Rivers Niger and Benue, Ogidi (An African town with formations of Igneous Rock mountains and a traditional art & craft industry) and natural land features hills and terrains that serve as hiking trails.

Kogi State Books of Record is a compendium of history and great icons of hope in all the sectors of life in Kogi State. If you are visiting Nigeria for tourism, Kogi should be your first destination. BUT, you can?t visit Kogi, if you have not read this book.