Koko

Koko, town and port, Delta state, southern Nigeria. A gathering point for palm oil and bits and in addition timber, it can be come to by vessels of 14-foot 4-meter draft that explore the 50-mile 80-kilometer separate upstream to the port through the Escravos River entrance opened 1940, on the Bight of Benin and the Youngtown Crossing. Despite the fact that its port was obscured by Sapele, 20 miles 32 km upstream, the town still fills in as a farming exchange place for the Itsekiri individuals.

It was revived as a port of passage in 1958, and in the late 1970s the administration restored its billets and advanced an angling and shrimping activity in the town. Koko is the managerial base camp for the Warri North neighborhood government region. Pop. most recent est. town, 19,994; 2006 nearby government region, 137,300.