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Location
Badagry, an ancient yet historic town, presently about 57 kilometres by road from Lagos is situated on the coastline running parallel to the sea.
A declaration dated May 5, 1886 defined in unmistakable terms the extent of Badagry geographical as follows:
“To the northward, or inland and inclusive thereof, Lago (Ragbo), Kogga lle and a line through them to the Oluge Waters to the West, the Iddo River continued to the sea by a line passing through and inclusive of Quarmel, (Kweme), to the eastward, Oluge waters and a line thence to Okogbo, across Lagoon to sea; to the southward, by sea, Badagry area covers the main town, Badagry Island and Bagdagry mainland villages/hamlets respectively.
Badagry has more of the characteristics of the climate of the coastal area of Nigeria. It enjoys sufficient rainfall ranging from 100-200cm annual from April-October, while the dry season punctuated with harmattan is from November-March. The soil is sandy and marshy and in some parts slightly similar to those of the savannah, favouring the cultivation of rice (around the swampy areas), maize, cassava, beans, palm tree, coconuts trees, royal palm trees, citrus trees, citrus trees.
The town has grown from a small principality to a land of history having recorded many first. The first town in West Africa to become urbanized, the first town not only in Nigerian but throughout the old West Africa that can boast of a two storey building in 1845, which still stands on the site of the original church yard till today, the gate way to Christianity and where Christianity was first preached in 1842, and the first beach head in Nigerian of the famous international traffic in human cargo.
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