Warri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Creation of Warri City=== The [[United Kingdom|British]] decided to move the seat of the administration of the Niger Coast Protectorate from the capital [[Ode-Itsekiri]] (Warri or Iwerre) to the [[upland and lowland|uplands]] to have effective control of the [[hinterlands]]. In order to achieve this, the British in 1906 took a [[lease]] of a new trading station opened in 1898 on [[virgin land]]s for Alexander Miller Brothers Limited of Liverpool at the mouth of the Okere Creeks. This new [[trading station]] was also named WARRI after the capital Ode-Itsekiri so the Itsekiris dubbed Ode-Itsekiri BIG WARRI in order to differentiate Ode-Itsekiri from the new trading station.<ref>Jones, G. I. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, vol. 43, no. 1, 1973, pp. 78–80. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1158548. Accessed 13 Jan. 2023. </ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page