Opobo
Opobo
City state
Coordinates: 4°30′41″N 7°32′24″E / 4.51139°N 7.54000°E / 4.51139; 7.54000
Country Nigeria
StateRivers State and Akwa Ibom State
Founded byJack Jaja Annie Pepple
Government
 • AmanyanaboDandeson Douglas Jaja V
Time zoneUTC+1 (WAT)

Opobo is an Ibani-Ijaw Kingdom with communities in Rivers State and in Akwa Ibom State in the South South region of 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, Ukonuwariapu, Kiepirima, Owujie and Tolofari.[1][2]

History

King Jaja of Opobo Memorial

Opobo is located to the east of the Kingdom of Bonny. Bonny and Opobo are of the same origin which is Ndoki. Opobo is an Igbo subgroup in Rivers state.Jubo Jubogha an Igbo son from Amaigbo community in Imo state rose from slavery to lead the Anna Pepple chieftaincy house of Bonny [3] In 1870, Jubo first arrived in what is now Opobo, having moved there due to a civil war in Bonny between his followers and those of Chief Oko Jumbo, the leader of the rival Manilla Pepple chieftaincy family.[4][5] The king named his new state after Amanyanabo Opubo "Pepple" Perekule the Great, a Pepple king in Bonny that had reigned there from 1792 to 1830.

Notable people

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ "Ikot Abasi". Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 January 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
    2. ↑ "About Opobo". Opoboregatta.com. Archived from the original on 25 December 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
    3. ↑ "General Minimah, his Opobo ancestry and the burden of history, By Eric Teniola | Premium Times Nigeria". February 21, 2014.
    4. ↑ G. I. Jones (2001). The trading states of the oil rivers: a study of political development in Eastern Nigeria. James Currey Publishers. p. 15ff. ISBN 0-85255-918-6.
    5. ↑ "The Izon of the Niger Delta by Onyoma Research Publications - Ebook | Scribd" – via www.scribd.com.

    Further reading

    • Burns, Alan. History of Nigeria, George Allen & Unwin, 1929.
    • Dike, Kenneth O. Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885, Oxford University Press, 1956.
    • Annang Heritage Preservation, article on Annang
    • Britannica article on Ikot Abasi
    • Nair, Kannan K. (1972). Politics and Society in South Eastern Nigeria 1841-1906, Frank Cass, London.
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