Jos

Jos, town, capital of Plateau state, on the Jos Plateau (elevation 4,250 feet [1,295 meters]) of central Nigeria. It lies on the Delimi River and near the source of the Jamaari River (called the Bunga farther downstream). The area that would become Jos had been inhabited by the Afizere, Anaguta, and Berom peoples, and there were two primary settlements in the vicinity, Guash and Naraguta. The town developed rapidly after the British learned, about 1903,...