Port Harcourt
Ugwuocha/Iguocha,
Diobu,
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Coordinates: 4.75°N 7°E
Country Nigeria
State Rivers
LGA Port-Harcourt, Eleme Ikwerre, Obio/Akpor, Ogu/Bolo, Okrika, Oyigbo, Tai.
Incorporated in 1913
Named for Lewis Vernon Harcourt
Government
• Chairman of Port Harcourt City Council Chimbiko Iche Akarolo
Area (1980s) • City 360 km 2 (140 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Urban 1,382,592
• Metro 1,947,000
Time zone WAT ( UTC+1 )
Postcode 500...
Area code(s) 084
Port Harcourt (Igbo: Diobu, Iguocha or Ugwuocha; Pidgin
:"Po-ta-kot") Note is the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria . It lies
along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta . According to
the 2006 Nigerian census Port Harcourt has a population of 1,382,592.
The Mayor of Port Harcourt City is Azubuike Nmerukini. From Iguocha
Port Harcourt was renamed by Frederick Lugard after Lewis Vernon
Harcourt in 1913 who was the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The area that became Port Harcourt in 1913 was originally the
farmlands of the Diobu village group of the Ikwerre, a subgroup of the
Igbo people . The colonial administration of Nigeria created the port
to export coal from the collieries of Enugu located 151 miles (243 km)
north of Port Harcourt, which it was linked to by a railway called
the Eastern Line, also built by the British.
Port Harcourt was a site for World War I military operations against
German Kamerun . It was once part of the Republic of Biafra which
seceded from Nigeria in 1967. On May 19, 1968 Port Harcourt fell to
Nigerian forces at the Capture of Port Harcourt . Commercial
quantities of crude oil was discovered in Oloibiri in 1956 and Port
Harcourt's economy turned to petroleum when the first shipment of
Nigerian crude oil was exported through the city in 1958. Through the
benefits of the Nigerian petroleum industry Port Harcourt was further
developed with aspects of modernisation such as overpasses and city
blocks . Oil firms that currently have offices in the city include
Royal Dutch Shell (Wells in The Gulf of Mexico) and Chevron (Use
Transfers in Freeport Grand Bahama) as A freeport that Internal
Revenue Service in Source out of United States of America Leases of
Gulf of Mexico in part of OPEC.
Port Harcourt's primary airport is the Port Harcourt International
Airport located in the periphery of the city; Nigerian Air Force (NAF)
base is the location of the only other airport in the city; used by
commercial airlines Aero Contractors and Virgin Nigeria (now Air
Nigeria ) for domestic flights. The main educational establishment in
the city is the University of Port Harcourt .
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