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Oil Rivers Protectorate 1884-1894.

The Oil Rivers Protectorate which is the present-day Niger Delta that lives in the coastal lines(South-South states) is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly at the gulf of guinea on the Atlantic ocean. Confirmed in the

Berlin conference the following year. It was later expanded to accommodate more and renamed the Niger Coast Protectorate in 1893-1900 before it was later expanded again and was joined with other regions to form the Southern Nigeria Protectorate 1900-1914. Later expanded further

North to create Nigeria Protectorate 1914-1954, to what's today the federation of Nigerian.

The States and their coastal communities which are in the present-day Niger Delta:

Edo state:
Agenebode is a historic water-side town located by the banks of the Niger River in Edo

State, South South Nigeria. It is the headquarters of Etsako-East local.

OKomu is a historic Ijaw community in Ovia South-West LGA.

It has fishing camps because of its proximity to the Gulf of Guinea, also a palm oil company, a national park.

Gelegele-gbene is a historic

Ijaw community in Ovia North- East LGA, which houses the Gelegele seaport in Edo state.

Delta state:
communities in the coastal lines are Benikrukru, Makaraba, Oporoza, Okerenkoko, Kokodiagbene, Kenyagbene, Okoyitoru,
Opuama, Tsekelewu, Dagbolo, Ugbo Monye Olougbene, Korowei

(DUMOK), Opia, Ikenyan,
Ogbudugbudu, Adagbarasa, Polobubor, Opuama, Dinkoru and
Ode-Ugborodo, Madangho, Ajudaibo, Ogidigben, Ijaghala, Ugboegungun, Jakpa, Ugboelegin
Aja-Amita, Tebu, Udo, Ebrohimi, Gbokoda, Obaghoro, Kolokolo, Tisun, Usor, Ureju,

Sagharatie, Eghoro, Deghele, Bateren, Omadino.

Forcados River: Forçados is a small town in Burutu LGA of Delta State, Nigeria. It is most noted for the Forcados River, which is a major navigable channel of the Niger Delta. The river starts about 20 miles (32 km) downstream

from Aboh and flows through zones of freshwater swamps, mangrove swamps, and coastal sand ridges before completing its 198-kilometer (123 mi) course to the Bight of Benin.

Bayelsa state:

Koluama 1/2,Anibeze, Peremabiri, Famgbe, Anyama Ijaw, Anyama Ogbia, Twon-Brass, Sangana,

Ekeni and Ezetu.

These are Ijaw communities that speak the Nembe, Ogbia, and ijoid languages in Bayelsa state, from Ogbia, Nembe, Brass, and Southern Ijaw LGA which is the second biggest LGA in Nigeria.

Akuku-Toru, Andoni, Ataba, Bonny, Degema, Portharcourt.

Nun River: The Nun River is a river in Rivers State, Nigeria. The Nun is formed when the Niger River splits in two, forming the Nun and Forcados rivers. Upon emerging from its parent river, Niger, the Nun River flows for

almost 160 kilometres (100 mi) south to the Gulf of Guinea at Akassa. Its course runs mainly through thinly settled areas and swamps.

Cross River: Calabar Municipal, Bakassi. Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea. It lies between the Cross River estuary, near the city of

Calabar in the west of the Bight of Biafra, and the Rio del Ray estuary on the east. It is governed by Cameroon, following the transfer of sovereignty from neighboring Nigeria as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice.

Akwa Ibom:
Ikot Abasi, Oruk Anam, Onna, Eastern Obolo, Mkpat Enin, and Ibeno.

These local governments is where the Akwa Ibom deep seaport is located.

Escravos River, a distributary of the Niger River in the western Niger Delta, southern Nigeria. Its 35-mile (56-kilometre) westerly course traverses zones of mangrove swamps and coastal sand ridges before entering the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea. There are no ports on

river, but the Escravos is linked by a maze of interconnected waterways to the Forcados, Warri, Benin, and Ethiope rivers. By 1960, although the natural passageway over the Escravos Bar at the ocean exit was only 12 feet (4 m) deep, the river had already supplanted the Forcados

as the main approach to the Delta ports: Warri, Burutu, Sapele, Koko, and Forcados. Since the completion in 1964 of the Escravos Bar Project, the Escravos has provided the only route for oceangoing vessels to those ports. There is also a petroleum-shipping station serving

a submarine oil field 11 miles (18 km) offshore from the mouth.
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