Opobo is a community in Rivers state, South South region of Nigeria. The kingdom was founded in 1870 by Jubo Jubogha, popularly known as JaJa, a former...
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Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; c. 1821–1891) belonging to the Igbo ethnicity, was the founder and first king (amanyanabo) of the Opobo Kingdom...
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Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Rivers. The capital of Opobo/Nkoro is Opobo Town. Opobo Nkoro LGA features multiple rivers and streams that flow within...
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The King Jaja of Opobo Memorial is a bronze monument in memory of King Jaja of Opobo, erected by public subscription in 1903. It was listed as being of...
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Igbo people (section King Jaja of Opobo)
communities. King Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891) was the first king (amanyanabo) of Opobo. He was also the founder of Opobo city-state in present...
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Siminalayi Fubara (category People from Opobo)
Ibani-Ijaw, and was born in Opobo Town in the Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area of Rivers State. He was born in Opobo Town in the Opobo-Nkoro Local Government...
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ethnic group who live along with the Ijaw speaking people in the Bonny and Opobo areas of Rivers State, Nigeria, on the Atlantic coast. Bonny town is the...
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and a civil war between Bonny and Opobo, and subsequent arbitration, on 3 January 1873 the chiefs of Bonny and Opobo signed a treaty under which "six markets...
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Kalabari Civil war of 1879-83, the Abbi House bought one from King Jaja of Opobo and it may have been used in canoe warfare. The Ijesha used a Gatling gun...
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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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Obigbo Odiabidi Ogbogoro Okehi Okobie Okoloma Okomoko Okrika Omoku Onne Opobo Oyorokoto Oyigbo Port Harcourt (capital and largest city) Rumuchakara Rumuekini...
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King Jaja I, the 1st Amanyanaboh of Opobo....
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Legends of Africa (section King Jaja of Opobo)
by Jaja. He established a new settlement, which he named Opobo. He became King Jaja of Opobo and declared himself independent of Bonny. Strategically...
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{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) BBC News (VII) 2015. Gasore 2014. Opobo 2015. Reporters Without Borders 2010. Mugisha 2013. Southwood 2013. Mugwe...
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Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018. Opobo, Moses (30 July 2018). "Low turn up, no show stars at Kigali International...
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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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East, Rivers West, Rivers East and 13 representatives representing Andoni/Opobo/Nkoro, Obio/Akpor, Oyigbo/Tai/Eleme, Port Harcourt II, Etche/Omuma, Asari-Toru/Akuku-Toru...
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2023-05-16. "Opobo Regatta". Goge Africa. 2019-06-23. Retrieved 2023-05-16. Obe, Emmanuel; Perishable (2021-01-02). "Tragedy, as Boy Drowns During Opobo Boat...
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"Hip Hop Dominating Music Industry". The New Times. Retrieved 26 May 2020. Opobo, Moses (17 July 2018). "KigaliUp is back, but..." The New Times. Retrieved...
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Dakuku Peterside (category People from Opobo)
Nigerian House of Representatives. Peterside was born in Biriye, Kingdom of Opobo, and grew up in Azumini, Aba in present-day Abia State, and in Kaduna and...
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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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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...
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Gokana Ikwerre Khana Obio-Akpor Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Ogu-Bolo Okirika Omuma Opobo-Nkoro Oyigbo Port Harcourt Tai Binji Bodinga Dange Shuni Gada Sokoto South...
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Avirgan & Honey 1983, p. 56. Avirgan & Honey 1983, p. 51. Oryema Opobo 2014, p. 103. Oryema Opobo 2014, pp. 103–104. Matatu 1979, pp. 12–13. Venter 1979c, p...
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contestant from season one of Drag Race Thailand Jaja of Opobo (1821–1891), the first monarch of Opobo Jaja Wachuku (1918–1996), Nigerian politician and humanitarian...
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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...
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dialogue between the Opobo and the Ibeno failed. Jaja did not take it kindly to see the same Liverpool traders whom he sent away from Opobo because of their...
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of 1869 which led to part of Bonny leaving to go form another Kingdom of Opobo. A remnant of Bonny continues to exist, however, as a part of the contemporary...
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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"...
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in a ceremony attended by the Emir of Kano, Oba of Benin, Amayanabo of Opobo and Olu of Warri, as well as by representatives of the Queen of the United...
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