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Bonny-Finima nature park
biodiversity studies are a continuous exercise in the Park.

Thanks Ijawgirl for the insight. I hope to visit Bonny/Opobo in the near future.

you will love bny; Magical Place, warm people

Bonny is known to have the best cultural carnival in rivers state
Nwaotam -is the most famous and celebrated masquerade of the Ibani people.
The most celebrated festival among this people is Nwaotam in which bona-fide Ibani sons and daughters, in a colourful display of culture, accompany their masquerade into the river as directed by the god of their land.
Nwaotam Play or Nwatam is performed during christmas in Bonny and new year in Opobo/Bonny \
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Celebration,  Festivity,  the enthusiasm,  excitement,  colorfulness,  beauty,  The smiles on faces,  the handshakes,  embrace,  greetings & best-wishes,  the melodious sounds of music,  all divers expression of hearty joyfulness,  these and more constitute it in BNY,

lily nwaotam [flash=400,350]
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jnk

There is regular power supply on Bonny Island. In fact, one of the two towns on Bonny Island, Finima, has free power supply from the Nigeria LNG Bonny Plant Complex. (no power outrage)/ uhm land they hardly sell land @ bonny but usually lease but i think u can buy land @ some places

theres a good, affordable hotel called Elizabeth suites

Elizabeth Suites Abalamabie Road Bonny

The smallest room is 4k and the bigger bed rooms is 6k

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beautiful but i de fear the sea oooooooo

beautiful pictures!!

enomakos:

beautiful but i de fear the sea oooooooo

LOL!! awe!

@ijaw_gurl,

Pls, i will be resuming in Bonny in few days to work for about a year but got no idea about where to get a good accommodation and how much it c osts. Please, c an you give me an hint and very affordables places to stay? Pepper no too rest o i beg, self contain no go bad o. Thanks in advance

Me too. I shud be in Bonny in a week or two. Please help o. A good self contain and the cost of it.

i am happy to see this , at the same time i am proud to be a child of this grate island, may God bless you for bringing this here, i will like to see more of this lol, thanks,

Pls, i will be resuming in Bonny in few days to work for about a year but got no idea about where to get a good accommodation and how much it c osts. Please, c an you give me an hint and very affordables places to stay? Pepper no too rest o i beg, self contain no go bad o. Thanks in advance

@EasywaysTravels,Pls, any idea on our questions as regards accommodation in bonny island?

"It was the melting point of economic activities right from the 16th century. "

yes, aka slave trade where millions where traded.

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ijaw_girl:

there is no difference between Bonny people and Opobo people. We have the same masquerades, celebrate the same festivals, all our beliefs and practices are the same.

bonny and Opobo are just geographical apart(  andoni is in the middle geographically), and the two kingdoms are individually established with their institutions and in their own rights. Bonny and Opobo are in two different senatorial districts in Rivers State even though they are geographically close to each other and they belong to the Ijaw clan (Ibani)

Igbo is just a common language of "communication" in Opobo and Bonny
we are culturally ibani and Language.
Opobians and Bonnians just have Igbo heritage , there are no igbo natives in Bonny and Opobo.

That is not right. Many opobo and bonny indigenes descended from the numerous igbo slaves that would have been sold into slave trade, that later settled there. That accounts for the dominancy of the igbo language there. Without doubt, yes you do have ijaw blood but then denying your igbo heritage just because igbo denial is common in rivers state is another thing entirely. It would be better to state that both places are mixed. And your Igbo dialect which all of you speak is 'not just a language of communication', its very much alive within you guys, and most of you esp in opobo dont even speak the ibani again. Why not use ibani instead? The only native language your parents know how to speak is igbo and nothing else, and yet its denigrated to a status of 'just for communication?' Many opobo people have been asked why they dont speak ibani and their reply is always in igbo 'nne m ezi m, nna m ezi m' (my mother didnt teach me, my father didnt teach me). Its always good to speak the truth.

Lets get this thread back alive. I am a proud Pro Bonny Ijaw man from Kalabari.

Bonny island always remind of falkland island (in argentina) claimed by the British. That's the reason its vry difficult to get there without the presence of armed security personnel because the whites in Bonny island dont want unnecessary visit frm 'outsiders'.

Hope the whites will not claim it as part of their soverein territory (e.g wake island, falkland island, guam, marianas, fiji etc)