Asaba

Aboh's control of the lower Niger reached as far as Asaba.

Its people came from Achalla and from Nteje, both of them Northern Igbo groups.

Aboh's power on the lower Niger reached upstream as far as Asaba, and Aboh controlled trade on the river from Ijaw country to that point until the nineteenth century came to an end.

Afigbo gives the fuller history of the town's role: the United African Company set up a trading post at Asaba in 1881-83 by treaty with its chiefs, and used it as a base for penetrating the West Niger Igbo, which provoked the Ekumeku secret organisation of the young men's leagues of the village-groups. The Company took the field against them in 1898; there was further fighting in 1902 and 1909, and the movement was finally broken by prosecutions, the Unlawful Societies Proclamation of 1905 and collective punishment. Under the reorganisation of 1914 the West Niger Igbo were given two divisions, Aboh under Warri and Asaba under Benin.