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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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King Jaja I, the 1st Amanyanaboh 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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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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

district covers these local government areas: Andoni, Eleme, Gokana, Khana, Opobo–Nkoro, Oyigbo and Tai. In 2014, it had a projected population of 1,720,790...

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...