Opobo Town
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Opobo
- Settlement.founder
- Jaja of Opobo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City state
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Rivers State
- Settlement.leader_title
- Amanyanabo
- Settlement.leader_name
- Dandeson Douglas Jaja V
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2006
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Opobo is a community, and former city-state, in Rivers state, South South region of Nigeria.
Opobo is divided into 14 sections ("polo"), made up of 67 war canoe houses. The 14 sections are Adibie, Biriye, Diepiri, Dapu, Dappa Ye Amakiri, Epelle, Fubarakworo, Iroanya, Jaja, Kalaomuso, Ukonu, Kiepirima, Owujie, and Tolofari.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Opobo Town” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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