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31-511: The Stadium which is known for hosting important games such as World cup qualifiers and AFCON qualifiers received it's heaviest backlash due to technical infraction and unsuitable playing field. This was due to a church program organized on the pitch thereby loosing it's license to host football matches of international standard s. The stadium was originally built by the United African Company (UAC) in 1957 and inaugurated as

62-508: A designated football pitch in 1959. The first stands were constructed in 1971. The stadium was rebuilt in 1977. It was renamed after Kumasi-born footballer Baba Yara (1936–1969, active for Asante Kotoko 1955–1961) under the New Patriotic government in 2004. The third major works ended in 2008. As part of the works, the west stand was demolished and replaced by a two-tier stand with press, corporate, and VIP facilities. The rest of

93-512: The Ghana and Nigeria match in the first leg of their World Cup playoff match on Friday March 25, 2022. 6°40′57.65″N 1°36′18.40″W  /  6.6826806°N 1.6051111°W  / 6.6826806; -1.6051111 United African Company The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. It was formed in 1879 as

124-674: The Northern Nigeria Protectorate . A monument to his memory was placed in the nave of the ancient Cathedral of St Magnus , Kirkwall. The full inscription reads: "William Balfour Baikie, MDRN, FRGS, FBS, FSA (Scot). Born at Kirkwall 27th August 1825. The explorer of the Niger and Tchadda, the translator of the Bible into the languages of Central Africa, and the pioneer of education, commerce, and progress, among its many nations. He devoted life, means, and talents, to make

155-675: The Senegal Company —and another English one—the Liverpool and Manchester Trading Company —begin establishing posts on the river as well. A native attack on the UAC's outpost at Onitsha in 1879 was repulsed with help from HMS Pioneer , but the Gladstone administration subsequently denied Goldie's attempt to procure a government charter in 1881, on the grounds that the international rivalry might occasion unnecessary conflict and that

186-495: The United African Company and renamed to National African Company in 1881 and to Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1929, the company became part of the United Africa Company , which came under the control of Unilever during the 1930s and continued to exist as a subsidiary of Unilever until 1987, when it was absorbed into the parent company. The company existed for a comparatively short time (1879–1900) but

217-608: The 49 members dying of fever or wounds from native attacks. One of the survivors, Macgregor Laird , subsequently remained in Britain but directed and funded expeditions to the country until his death in 1861. He opposed the failed Niger expedition of 1841 but the success of the Pleiad' s first mission in 1854 led to annual trips under Baikie and the 1857 foundation of Lokoja at the Niger–Benue confluence. There were no voyages for

248-642: The Expedition . . . to the River Niger in 1841 , (1848)). After purchasing the site, and concluding a treaty with the Fula emir of Nupe , he proceeded to clear the ground, build houses, form enclosures and pave the way for a future city. In less than five years he had opened up the navigation of the Niger, made roads, and established a market to which the native produce was brought for sale and barter. His settlement grew to include representatives of almost all

279-514: The NAC's operations within a British sphere of interest. Pledges from him and the British diplomats that free trade (or, in any case, non-discriminatory tariff rates) would be respected in their territory were dead letters: the NAC's over 400 treaties with local leaders obliged the natives to trade solely with or through the company's agents. Large tariffs and license fees eliminated competing firms from

310-516: The Rivers Kwora and Binue (1856). In March 1857, Baikie—with the rank of British consul —started on another expedition in the Pleiad . After two years exploring the Niger, the navigating vessel was wrecked passing through some of the rapids of the river, and Baikie was unable to keep his party together. The expedition survivors were not rescued from Africa for a year. The botanist, Charles Barter , who trained at Kew Gardens and

341-661: The Royal Niger Company), with Lord Aberdare as governor and Goldie as vice-governor. It was, however, evidently impossible for a chartered company to hold its own against the state-supported protectorates of France and Germany , and in consequence its charter was revoked in 1899 and, on 1 January 1900, the Royal Niger Company transferred its territories to the British Government for the sum of £ 865,000. The ceded territory together with

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372-480: The area. The terms of these private contracts were made into general treaties by the British consuls, whose own treaties expressly incorporated them. Similarly, when King Jaja of Opobo organized his own trading network and even began running his own shipments of palm oil to Britain, he was lured onto a British warship and shipped into exile on Saint Vincent on charges of "treaty breaking" and "obstructing commerce". Despite treaties extending British control over

403-412: The heathen, savage, and slave, a free and Christian man. For Africa, he opened new paths to light, wealth and liberty – for Europe, new fields of science, enterprize and beneficence. He won for Britain new honour and influence, and for himself the respect, affection, and confidence of the chiefs and people. He earned the love of those whom he commanded, and the thanks of those whom he served, and left to all

434-558: The mouth of the Niger , after a voyage of 118 days, without the loss of a single man. The expedition had been instructed to endeavour to afford assistance to Heinrich Barth , who had in 1851 crossed the Benue in its upper course, but Baikie was unable to gain any trustworthy information concerning him. Returning to the UK , Baikie gave an account of his work in his Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up

465-481: The notice of Sir Roderick Murchison , through whom he was appointed surgeon and naturalist to the Niger expedition sent out in 1854 by Macgregor Laird with government support. The death of the senior officer ( Consul Beecroft ) occurring at Fernando Po , Baikie succeeded to the command. Ascending the Benue about 250 miles beyond the point reached by former explorers, the little steamer Pleiad returned and reached

496-536: The same borders as Nigeria in 1960). The Royal Niger Company was eventually integrated into Unilever . Richard Lander first explored the area of Nigeria as the servant of Hugh Clapperton . In 1830, he returned to the river with his brother John ; in 1832, he returned again (without his brother) to establish a trading post for the African Steamship Company " at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers. The expedition failed, with 40 of

527-507: The same year deprived the French companies of their support within the French government and the strong subsidies it had been providing them. Goldie's cash-flush NAC was then able to maintain 30 trading posts along the river, and ruin its competition in a two-year price war: by October 1884 all three had permitted him to buy out their interests in the region and the NAC's annual report for 1885

558-421: The small Niger Coast Protectorate , already under imperial control, was formed into the two protectorates of Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria . The company changed its name to The Niger Company Ltd and in 1929 became part of the United Africa Company . The United Africa Company came under the control of Unilever  in the 1930s and continued to exist as a subsidiary of Unilever until 1987, when it

589-456: The stands were upgraded, seats were added, and transparent panels were installed to separate the spectator area from the playing area in order to prevent pitch invasions . The stadium hosted 6 group matches and one of the semi-final matches of the 1978 African Cup of Nations tournament. During the 2000 African Cup of Nations , the stadium hosted 7 matches. It was later used for the 2008 African Cup of Nations . The Baba Yara stadium also hosted

620-564: The surrounding tribes. While on his way home, on leave of absence, he died at Sierra Leone . Historia Naturalis Orcadensis. Zoology , Part 1 was published in 1848, but Part 2 was never completed. Baikie's Observations on the Hausa and Fuifuide (i.e. Fula) Languages was privately printed in 1861. His translation of the Psalms into Hausa was published by the Bible Society in 1881. He

651-487: The three years following Laird's death, but the establishment of the West African Company was soon followed by several other firms. The competition reduced prices to the point that profits were minimal. Arriving in the region in 1877, George Goldie argued for the amalgamation of the surviving British firms into a single monopolistic chartered company , a method contemporaries supposed had been buried with

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682-427: The tribes of West-Central Africa , and more than 2,000 traders visited the town in its first three years. To the motley commonwealth thus formed he acted not merely as ruler, but also as physician, teacher and priest. He collected vocabularies of nearly fifty African languages, and translated portions of the Bible and prayer-book into Hausa and Arabic. Once only during his residence had he to employ armed force against

713-598: The tribes of the Cameroons , however, Britain was willing to recognize the German colony that usurped the area in 1885 as a check on French activity in the upper Congo and Ubangi watersheds. The scruples of the British government being overcome, a charter was at length granted (July 1886), the National African Company becoming The Royal Niger Company Chartered and Limited (normally shortened to

744-757: The ultimate failure of the East India Company following the Sepoy Rebellion . By 1879, he had helped combine James Crowther's WAC, David Macintosh's Central African Company , and the Williams Brothers' and James Pinnock's firms into a single United African Company ; he then acted as the combined firm's agent in the territory. Almost immediately, the firm saw renewed competition as two French firms—the French Equatorial African Association and

775-484: The united firm was undercapitalized for the expense of genuine colonial administration. Goldie first began addressing the administration's concerns by increasing the company's capitalization to £100 000. He then managed to corral £ 1 000 000 in investments in a new concern—the National African Company —which bought up the UAC and its interests in 1882. The death of Léon Gambetta

806-571: Was able to crow that it "remained alone in undisputed commercial possession of the Niger–Binué region". This monopoly permitted Britain to resist French and German calls to internationalize trade on the Niger River during the negotiations at the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference on African colonization . Goldie himself attended the meetings and successfully argued for including the region of

837-552: Was absorbed into the parent company. William Balfour Baikie William Balfour Baikie FSA Scot (27 August 1825 – 12 December 1864) was a Scottish explorer , naturalist and philologist . Baikie was born at Kirkwall , Orkney , eldest son of Captain John Baikie, R.N. He studied medicine at Edinburgh , and, on obtaining his M.D. degree, joined the Royal Navy in 1848. He early attracted

868-480: Was against the slave trade , which still provided a generous income for some tribal leaders. Landing from a small boat, with one or two native followers, at the confluence of the Niger and Benue, he instead chose Lokoja as the base of his future operations, it being the site of the model farm established by the Niger expedition of 1841 , and abandoned on the death of most of the white settlers (see Capt. W. Allen , R.N., and T. R. H. Thomson , M.D., A Narrative of

899-460: Was also the author of various works concerning Orkney and Shetland . The plant genus Baikiaea commemorates his name. After Baikie's death, the British government abolished the consulate (1866), but the trading post remained influential. The district where Baikie had worked so successfully was finally secured for the UK through private enterprise some 20 years later. Lokoja became the capital of

930-556: Was foreman of Regent's Park of the Royal Botanic Society , London from 1851 to 1857, caught dysentery and died at Rabba, Nigeria in 1859. He is commemorated by the genus Barteria Hook. f. in the Passifloraceae . Baikie determined to carry out the purposes of the expedition. He first considered establishing a British Consular Agency at Kabba, but faced opposition from the local king - possibly because Baikie

961-713: Was instrumental in the formation of Colonial Nigeria , as it enabled the British Empire to establish control over the lower Niger  against the German competition led by Bismarck during the 1890s. In 1900, the company-controlled territories became the Southern Nigeria Protectorate , which was in turn united with the Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914 (which eventually gained independence within

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