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Location of Rivers State in Nigeria . The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Rivers State: Rivers State – one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the southernmost part of the country. The state has a population of more than 5 million, and is the sixth-most populous state according to census data released ...
Tai is a Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State in Nigeria. It covers an area of 159 km 2 and at the 2006 Census it had a population of 117,797. [1] It is part of the Okrika/Oyigbo/Tai/Eleme constituency of the Nigerian Senate, represented since April 2007 by George Thompson Sekibo. [2] Tai local government headquarters is situated at ...
Onne, also known as Onne-Eleme, is a town in Eleme, Rivers State, Nigeria. [1] The town is a host to one of the two prominent ports in Nigeria . [ 2 ] It is bordered by the towns of Alode, Ebubu, and the Ngololo River , which is one of the tributaries of the Bonny River .
This is a list of villages and settlements in Rivers State, Nigeria arranged by local government area [1] (LGA) and district/area (with postal codes also given).
Abua–Odual (also spelled as Abua/Odual) is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. [citation needed] Its headquarters is located in Ayama/Abua Central Abua.The people fo Abua are of Ijaw ancestry, making the LGA one of the 11 LGAs in Rivers State with Ijaw ancestry.
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Rivers is a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region). [6] Formed on 27 May 1967, when it was split from the former Eastern Region, Rivers State borders include Imo and Anambra to the north, Abia and Akwa Ibom to the east, and Bayelsa and Delta to the west.The State capital, Port Harcourt, is a metropolis that is considered to be the commercial center of the ...
The Gokana language, of the Ogonoid group of the Cross-River branch of the large Niger-Congo language family, is the main spoken language. Weddings, burials (of people who died in old age) and the naming of a child are important ceremonies among the people of Gokana and they are celebrated in style.