Tourist experts have described kogi, one of the 19 states in the North region of Nigeria and one time seat of government of Nigeria during colonial era with many historical relics, as a geopolitical expression endowed with tourism potential waiting to be harnessed.
They called on kogi state government to enhance effort in developing tourism sector of the state to attract local and foreign tourists to various tourist sites and investors to boost the economy increase the revenue profile of the state, among other advantages.
Some of these tourist sites include; the resting home of Lord Lugard, one time Governor General of Nigeria, Mounti patti in Lokoja which is 1,500 feet above sea level
Others are the Confluence of River Niger and Benue, the palace of the Late Ohinoyi of Ebiraland Dr,Ado Ibrahim in Okene, water falls,Inikpi statue in Idah,the first primary school in northern Nigeria, built in 1864.
Also is the European cemetery in lokoja, where the remains of european missionaries and white soldiers were buried, the first prison and military hospital in the North,UAC ware houses ,all in Lokoja among other relics.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
