EXPLOSIVE HISTORY: Who Sold Nigeria To Britain For £865k in 1899?
File Photo Today we will be discussing the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria. All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that. Palm oil of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later.