Opobo Kingdom is an Igbo-speaking community in Rivers State, Nigeria. Opobo Kingdom is made up of 67 War Canoe Houses that are grouped into 14 sections...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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