Buguma

Coordinates: 4°44′N 6°52′E / 4.733°N 6.867°E / 4.733; 6.867
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Buguma City
Asari
City
UTC+1 (WAT)
 • Summer (DST)+1 GMT
Nigerian Postal Code
504101

Buguma City is a larger

Nigerian traditional state
.

The town has an official Post Office and a big set of commercial fish ponds set up by the State Government[citation needed]. The Current Mayor, popularly addressed as Chairman, of the LGA, which Buguma City is the headquarters, is Hon. (Amb) Onengiyeofori George (Starboy).[1]

It is also home to the great King Amachree of the Kalabari kingdom.[2]

In 1983, Buguma was designated a city by the Government of Melford Okilo and that status subsists to date.[3]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  2. ^ "King of Buguma and Kalabari nation". Kalabari Nation. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  3. ^ The Official Gazette of Rivers State of Nigeria No. 16, published in Port Harcourt on the 25th of August 1983 referred to “Buguma City Council”; the only other City Council after Port Harcourt City Council.


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