Ijaw community in Rivers and Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Opobo is an Igbo tribe located in Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria.
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Kingdom in Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Opobo Kingdom is made up of 67 War Canoe Houses that are grouped into 14 sections ("polos"). The Fourteen sections are Adibie, Biriye, Diepiri, Dapu, Dappa Ye Amakiri, Epelle and Fubarakworo. Others are Iroanya, Jaja, Kala-omuso, Okonu-wariapu, Kiepirima, Owujie and Tolofari.[1][2]
Over 30 communities constitute Opobo Kinhdom. Some Opobo communities in Rivers State include: Opobo Town (the traditional headquarters of Opobo Kingdom), Queens Town, Ayaminima, Oloma, Epellema, Ekereborikiri, Iwo-ama Atoki, Cornelius Village, Minima, Kalasunju, Kalaibiama Abasibie, Okpukpo amongst others; while some Opobo communities in Akwa Ibom State include the following: Kampa, Opukalama, Amadiari, Apiafi Village, Cookey Village, Fibiri, amongst others.
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Opobo is an Igbo tribe located in Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. Opobo Kingdom is made up of 67 War Canoe Houses that are grouped into 14...
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was known as Captain Pepple in trade matters, and King Jubo Jubogha of Opobo, who bore the pseudonym Captain Jaja. Both Pepple and Jaja would bequeath...
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by Jaja. He established a new settlement, which he named Opobo. He became King Jaja of Opobo and declared himself independent of Bonny. Strategically...
royalties drove competing companies out of the territory. When King Jaja of Opobo organised his own trading network and even began routing his own palm oil...
are located at the hinterland of Igboland and coastal region of Bonny and Opobo. Pre-colonial Ndoki covers 450 square kilometres (170 sq mi) with rich farmland...
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California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25443-5. "Miscellaneous views in Calabar, Opobo and Sierra Leone, circa 1912–1913 – King Ovonramwen of Benin and wives"...
major battle between the two factions led to Ja-Ja founding a new state at Opobo, further inland, taking some of the palm oil trade away from Bonny. Bonny...
leaders who had been born into slavery; such a leader was King Jaja of Opobo. The Ijaw People bought slaves from Igboland, including Jubo Jubogha, an...
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