The Mount Patti Hill is a 1503 foot-tall (458 m) mountain and tourist attraction in

Lokoja Lokoja is a north-central city in Nigeria. It lies at the confluence of the Niger River, Niger and Benue River, Benue list of rivers of Nigeria, rivers and is the capital city of Kogi State. While the Bassa Nge, Yoruba people, Yoruba Oworo peopl ...

, Nigeria. It is famous for being the place where British journalist and writer Flora Louise Shaw (later Flora Lugard) gave Nigeria its name. The name (

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

) was coined by Flora Shaw in 1914 when looking at Lokoja from top of The Mount Patti. It came into her mind because of the view of the

Niger River The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Nige ...

and Benue, 6 kilometers away from the Mount. In an essay that first appeared in ''The Times'' on 8 January 1897, Shaw suggested the name

for the

British Protectorate British protectorates were protectorates under the jurisdiction of the British government. Many territories which became British protectorates already had local rulers with whom the Crown negotiated through treaty, acknowledging their status wh ...

on the Niger River. In her essay, She made the case for a shorter-term that would be used for the "agglomeration of pagan and Mohammedan States" to replace the official title, " Royal Niger Company Territories". She thought that the term "Royal Niger Company Territories" was too long to be used as a name of a Real Estate Property under the Trading Company in that part of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

. She was in search of a new name, and she coined "Nigeria." In ''The Times'' of 8 January 1897, she wrote, "The name

applying to no other part of

may without offense to any neighbors be accepted as co-extensive with the territories over which the Royal Niger Company has extended British influence, and may serve to differentiate them equally from the colonies of

Lagos Lagos ( ; ), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria. With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and on ...

and the

Niger Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger border, north-east, Chad to the Chad–Niger border, east ...

Protectorate on the coast and from the French territories of the Upper Niger." In 1900, the governor-general of Northern and Southern Protectorate of Nigeria Sir Lord Frederick Lugard and other colonial leaders resided their office and resting place on the Mountain, with the mount peak closed to the River Niger and

Benue River Benue River (), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is a major tributary of the Niger River. The size of its catchment basin is 319,000 km2 (123,000 sq mi). Almost its entire length of Approximation, approximately is navigable dur ...

. File:View of Lokoja city from mountain Patti, Lokoja.jpg, The view on top of Mountain Patti, looking at

and the two biggest rivers in

. Lord

Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 – 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, Exploration, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator. He was Governor of Hon ...

, House and office File:Mount Patti.jpg, A view of mountain patti in motorway road. Kogi

. The History part in Nigeria. The road to lord fedrick house patti lukongi. Mountain of doves File:The beautiful mount patti.jpg, A view of mountain patti. The Forest view patti. Logoja Kogi The first primary school in Northern Nigeria was located there, built-in 1865. File: A welcome to Mount Patti Sign.jpg, Welcome gate of Mount Patti, Road to Mount Patti. Patti lukongi

, the road to the hill of doves. File: Lugard Rest House on Mount Patti.jpg, The Mount Patti hill, statute of Fredrick' lurgard and lady lugard. lugard stature in mount Patti. Kogi

built-in 1950 The name (Patti) is a Nupe word meaning ''hill'', with (Mount) in short meaning of ''mountain''.

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{{Reflist Kogi State Mountains of Nigeria