Iwe Irohin – The First Newspaper In Nigeria
A facsimile of Iwe Irohin, the first newspaper in Nigeria In the 1840s, the missionaries of the Presbyterian Church began to arrive in Nigeria. They settled in an area known as English Town in Calabar. Among these missionaries was Reverend Henry Townsend who later moved to Abeokuta in the 1850s. In Abeokuta, Reverend Townsend…