Badagry Division

The First Administrative Building, Badagry, Lagos.

Badagry Division is an administrative division of Lagos State in Nigeria.

History[]

Badagry Division figures in the history of relations and contact between Nigeria and Europe, as it was a major slave outpost and market prior to British colonization. It was also the place where, in 1842, Christianity was first preached in Nigeria; this was memorialized by the .

Local government areas[]

It consists of four local government areas:

• Ojo
• Amuwo-Odofin
• Ajeromi-Ifelodun
• Badagry

Major settlements[]

• Badagry
• Aseri
• Itoga
• Oranyan
• Ipota
• Seme Border
• Mushin

Awori District settlements[]

In the are:

• Oto-Awori
• Ijanikin
• Ilogbo
• Apa
• Itewe
• Igede
• Ajangbadi
• Festac Town
• Satellite Town
• Kirikiri
• Okokomaiko
• Ijegun
• Mushin
• Isolo
• Ilemba-Awori
• Agege

Tourist sites and monuments[]

• Agia Cenotaph, Badagry – site where Christianity was first preached in Nigeria in 1842.
• Atlantic Slave Route/Port [Badagry – Marina and Gberefu Beach].
• Badagry Museum [Old British District Officer’s Building], Marina, Badagry.
• Early Missionaries’ Cemetery [1845], Hospital Road, Ahovikoh Quarters, Badagry.
• is located in Badagry Division.
• First Storey Building in Nigeria, – constructed by the CMS [Anglican Mission] in 1845.
• Lagos State University, [LASU], Ojo.
• Nigeria-Benin Republic International Border, Seme, Badagry.
• Nigeria-French Language Village, Badagry, Inter-University Centre for French Language Studies
• Ologe Forest Reserve, Ologe, Ilogbo, off Badagry Expressway
• Ogu Stately Drums [Sato] introduced in 1543 – Akarakumo
• Ogu Toplisen Shrine, Hunto Quarters, Badagry – where Badagry Monarchs [Aholu] are crowned.
• Palace of De Wheno Aholu [King] Menu Toyi 1, Akran of Badagry, Jegba Quarters.
• Relics of Slave Trade, Badagry-Mobee Compound, Seriki Abass Slave Barraccoon [1847]; Boeko, Boekoh Quarters, Vlekete Slave Market, Posukoh Quarters – Badagry where the Lander Brothers were tried in 1825.
• Tomb of George Fremingo, [1620] alias Huntokonu, first slave merchant in Badagry
• Trade Fair Complex, Ojo [site of annual Lagos International Trade Fair].
• Whispering Palms [Recreation Resort], Iworo.^[1]

Gallery[]

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  First storey building in Nigeria

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  Badagry museum

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  Tafawa Balewa square

References[]

External links[]

• Lagos State Website