How the Opobo Men kept their Guns in 1889
In 1889 the Opobo people were reported to be arming themselves on an extensive scale, and when the Consulate officials found that the rumours were true, and that almost every tribesman possessed a firearm, many of them weapons of precision, they feared that a general…
John Wilson Brown’s Gift to King Jaja Of Opobo in 1877
ASIRI Presents Secrets of from the Ancient Kingdom of Opobo. The town of Opobo in the 16th Century was a slave port and a commercial sport for the British,the rise of Oil in the area gave birth to trade between people of Opobo. King Jaja…
The Beauty and Ruins of the 1914 Amalgamation Building.
Recently, while on a research for deep cultural content, along the shores of Opobo kingdom in Rivers State, about the legendary King Jaja of Opobo and the adaptation of the Igbo language by the people of Opobo Kingdom as opposed to their indigenous ‘Ubani‘ language,…