Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Rivers State

Index Rivers State

Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. [1]

269 relations: Abia State, Abonnema, Abscission, Abua, Abua language, Abua–Odual, Aerodrome, Aframomum melegueta, African Development Bank, Agbirigba, Ahoada, Ahoada East, Ahoada West, Air France, Akuku-Toru, Akwa Ibom State, Alchornea cordifolia, Anambra State, Andoni, Anthostema, Asari-Toru, Atlantic Ocean, Avis Rent a Car, Baan language, Bayelsa State, Beach ridge, Benue Trough, Benue–Congo languages, Biodiversity, Biome, BirdLife International, Biseni Forest, Biseni language, Bonny Island, Bonny River, Bonny, Rivers, Borehole, Bori City, Buguma, Bus, Calabar, Calamus (palm), Canopy (biology), Cargo, Child mortality, Chromolaena odorata, Clay, Coconut, Cocoyam, Colonial Nigeria, ..., Costus, Crocodile, Cronos Airlines, Cross River languages, Culcasia scandens, Defaka language, Degema language, Degema, Rivers, Delta State, Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Eastern Region, Nigeria, Ecology, Edoid languages, Egbema tribe, Ekpeye language, Elaeis, Elaeis guineensis, Electricity, Eleme language, Eleme people, Eleme, Rivers, Emohua, Emohua Town, Energy consumption, Engenni language, Engenni people, Etche, Europcar, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, Ferry, Ficus, Finima Nature Park, First language, Fleroya ledermannii, Floodplain, Forb, Fourth Nigerian Republic, Frankfurt, Fresh water, Frog, Geopolitical zones of Nigeria, Gmelina arborea, Gokana language, Gokana, Rivers, Government of Rivers State, Governor of Rivers State, Grey parrot, Gross domestic product, Habitat, Harbor, Harungana, Henry Willink, House of Representatives (Nigeria), Ibani tribe, Igbo language, Igboid languages, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Igwuruta, Ijaw languages, Ijaw people, Ijoid languages, Ikwerre language, Ikwerre people, Ikwerre, Rivers, Imo River, Imo State, Important Bird Area, Index of Rivers State-related articles, Ipalibo Banigo, Isaac Adaka Boro, ISO 3166-2:NG, Judiciary of Rivers State, Kalabari language, Kalabari tribe, Khana language, Khana, Rivers, Kugbo language, Lagos, Laportea, Life expectancy, List of Governors of Rivers State, List of Governors of Rivers State by time in office, List of Nigerian states by area, List of Nigerian states by date of statehood, List of Nigerian states by GDP, List of Nigerian states by population, List of Nigerian states' nicknames, List of people from Rivers State, List of sovereign states, Literacy, Livery, Lizard, Local government areas of Nigeria, Lufthansa, Malabo, Mangrove, Mangrove swamp, Maternal death, Med-View Airline, Mobile crane, Mona monkey, Monodora, Mortality rate, Multilingualism, Musanga cecropioides, National Assembly (Nigeria), National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria, Natural history, Nature reserve, Nephrolepis biserrata, New Calabar River, Niger Coast Protectorate, Niger Delta, Niger–Congo languages, Nigeria, Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Rivers, Nigerian Tribune, Nkoroo, Nkoroo language, Nun River, O’chi’chi’ language, Obio-Akpor, Obolo language, Obolo people, Obulom language, Odual language, Ogba language, Ogba people, Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni, Ogbogolo language, Ogbronuagum language, Ogoni languages, Ogoni people, Ogu–Bolo, Okehi, Okodia language, Okrika, Omuku, Omuma, Onne, Opobo, Opobo–Nkoro, Orashi River, Oruma language, Outline of Rivers State, Oyigbo, Palm kernel, Palm oil, Paris, Plain, Plant, Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt (local government area), Port Harcourt International Airport, Port Harcourt NAF Base, Port Harcourt Polytechnic, Port of Port Harcourt, Pygmy hippopotamus, Raffia palm, Rainwater harvesting, Ramsar Convention, Rauvolfia vomitoria, Rivers East, Rivers South East, Rivers State, Rivers State House of Assembly, Rivers State Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Rivers State Ministry of Health, Rivers State Ministry of Power, Rivers State Ministry of Transport, Rivers State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development, Rivers State People's Democratic Party, Rivers State University, Rivers West, Royal Niger Company, Saline water, Senate of Nigeria, Shade tolerance, Silt, Skink, Sky blue, Snake, Solar power, South South (Nigeria), Southern Nigeria Protectorate, States of Nigeria, Strophanthus preussii, Symphonia globulifera, Tai, Rivers, Taxicab, Teak, Tee language, Terminalia, The Hertz Corporation, The Tide (Nigeria), Topography, Tributary, Tropical rainforest, Turtle, Uapaca, Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni language, Understory, UNESCO, United States Agency for International Development, University of Port Harcourt, Upper Orashi Forest Reserve, Wastewater treatment, Water supply, Water well, Watt, West Africa Time, Wet season, Wetland, White, White-throated guenon, Wildlife, Yakubu Gowon, Yellow-backed duiker, 1st millennium. Expand index (219 more) »

Abia State

Abia is a state in the south eastern part of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Abia State · See more »

Abonnema

Abonnema (originally known as Nyemoni, which means "covet your own" in the Kalabari dialect of the Ijaw languages group) is a larger town in the Kalabari kingdom that was founded in 1882.

New!!: Rivers State and Abonnema · See more »

Abscission

Abscission (from Latin ab, "away", and scindere, "to cut'") is the shedding of various parts of an organism, such as a plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower, or seed.

New!!: Rivers State and Abscission · See more »

Abua

Abua (Abuan) is a village and riverine kingdom in the Abua–Odual LGA of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Abua · See more »

Abua language

Abua (Abuan) is a Central Delta language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Abua language · See more »

Abua–Odual

Abua–Odual (also spelled as Abua/Odual) is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Abua–Odual · See more »

Aerodrome

An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither.

New!!: Rivers State and Aerodrome · See more »

Aframomum melegueta

Aframomum melegueta is a species in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae.

New!!: Rivers State and Aframomum melegueta · See more »

African Development Bank

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution.

New!!: Rivers State and African Development Bank · See more »

Agbirigba

Agbirigba is a cant (or argot) based on the Ogbakiri dialect of the Nigerian language Ikwerre of Port Harcourt.

New!!: Rivers State and Agbirigba · See more »

Ahoada

Ahoada (Ahuda, Ehuda) is a city in Orashi Region of Rivers State, Nigeria, located northwest of Port Harcourt.

New!!: Rivers State and Ahoada · See more »

Ahoada East

Ahoada East (also spelt Ehuda East) is a Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, located northwest of Port Harcourt.

New!!: Rivers State and Ahoada East · See more »

Ahoada West

Ahoada West (also spelt Ahuda West) is a Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, located northwest of Port Harcourt.

New!!: Rivers State and Ahoada West · See more »

Air France

Air France (formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylized as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.

New!!: Rivers State and Air France · See more »

Akuku-Toru

Akuku-Toru is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Akuku-Toru · See more »

Akwa Ibom State

Akwa Ibom is a state in Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State · See more »

Alchornea cordifolia

Alchornea cordifolia is a shrub or small tree distributed throughout tropical Africa.

New!!: Rivers State and Alchornea cordifolia · See more »

Anambra State

Anambra is a state in southeastern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Anambra State · See more »

Andoni

Andoni is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Andoni · See more »

Anthostema

Anthostema is a flowering plant genus in the Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) first described as a genus in 1824.

New!!: Rivers State and Anthostema · See more »

Asari-Toru

Asari-Toru is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Asari-Toru · See more »

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

New!!: Rivers State and Atlantic Ocean · See more »

Avis Rent a Car

Avis is an American car rental company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States.

New!!: Rivers State and Avis Rent a Car · See more »

Baan language

Baan is an Ogoni language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Baan language · See more »

Bayelsa State

Bayelsa is a state in southern Nigeria in the core Niger Delta region, between Delta State and Rivers State.

New!!: Rivers State and Bayelsa State · See more »

Beach ridge

A beach ridge is a wave-swept or wave-deposited ridge running parallel to a shoreline.

New!!: Rivers State and Beach ridge · See more »

Benue Trough

The Benue Trough is a major geological structure underlying a large part of Nigeria and extending about 1,000 km northeast from the Bight of Benin to Lake Chad.

New!!: Rivers State and Benue Trough · See more »

Benue–Congo languages

Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major subdivision of the Niger–Congo language family which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

New!!: Rivers State and Benue–Congo languages · See more »

Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

New!!: Rivers State and Biodiversity · See more »

Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

New!!: Rivers State and Biome · See more »

BirdLife International

BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

New!!: Rivers State and BirdLife International · See more »

Biseni Forest

The Biseni Forest is a freshwater swamp forest located in the north west of Ahoada and the west of Upper Orashi Forest in the Taylor Creek floodplain of the Niger Delta.

New!!: Rivers State and Biseni Forest · See more »

Biseni language

Biseni (Buseni) is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Biseni language · See more »

Bonny Island

Bonny Island is situated at the southern edge of Rivers State in the Niger Delta of Nigeria near Port Harcourt.

New!!: Rivers State and Bonny Island · See more »

Bonny River

Bonny River is a river in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Bonny River · See more »

Bonny, Rivers

Bonny (or Ubani) is an island town and a Local Government Area in Rivers State in southern Nigeria, on the Bight of Bonny.

New!!: Rivers State and Bonny, Rivers · See more »

Borehole

A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally.

New!!: Rivers State and Borehole · See more »

Bori City

Bori is a city in Khana Local Government Area, Rivers State, southern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Bori City · See more »

Buguma

Buguma is a larger town in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Buguma · See more »

Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

New!!: Rivers State and Bus · See more »

Calabar

Calabar (also referred to as "Canaan City") is a city in Cross River State, in south southern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Calabar · See more »

Calamus (palm)

Calamus is a genus of the palm family Arecaceae.

New!!: Rivers State and Calamus (palm) · See more »

Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

New!!: Rivers State and Canopy (biology) · See more »

Cargo

In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.

New!!: Rivers State and Cargo · See more »

Child mortality

Child mortality, also known as child death, refers to the death of children under the age of 14 and encompasses neonatal mortality, under-5 mortality, and mortality of children aged 5-14.

New!!: Rivers State and Child mortality · See more »

Chromolaena odorata

Chromolaena odorata is a tropical and subtropical species of flowering shrub in the sunflower family.

New!!: Rivers State and Chromolaena odorata · See more »

Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

New!!: Rivers State and Clay · See more »

Coconut

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.

New!!: Rivers State and Coconut · See more »

Cocoyam

Cocoyam is a common name for more than one tropical root and vegetable crop belonging to the Arum family (Aroids) and may refer to.

New!!: Rivers State and Cocoyam · See more »

Colonial Nigeria

Colonial Nigeria was the area of West Africa that later evolved into modern-day Nigeria, during the time of British rule in the 19th and 20th centuries.

New!!: Rivers State and Colonial Nigeria · See more »

Costus

Costus is a group of perennial herbaceous plants in the family (Costaceae) described by Linnaeus as a genus in 1753.

New!!: Rivers State and Costus · See more »

Crocodile

Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

New!!: Rivers State and Crocodile · See more »

Cronos Airlines

Cronos Airlines is a regional airline headquartered in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

New!!: Rivers State and Cronos Airlines · See more »

Cross River languages

The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family spoken in south-easternmost Nigeria, with some speakers in south-westernmost Cameroon.

New!!: Rivers State and Cross River languages · See more »

Culcasia scandens

Culcasia scandens is an African climbing plant, often epiphytic, with slender, wiry stems, up to 5 m long clinging to tree trunks by means of clasping roots, and growing on forest and stream margins and in savanna.

New!!: Rivers State and Culcasia scandens · See more »

Defaka language

Defaka is an endangered and divergent Nigerian language of uncertain classification.

New!!: Rivers State and Defaka language · See more »

Degema language

Dẹgẹma is an Edoid language spoken in two separate communities on Degema Island in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, by about 22,000 people, according to 1991 census figures (including projection figures for the two Dẹgẹma-speaking communities).

New!!: Rivers State and Degema language · See more »

Degema, Rivers

Degema is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Degema, Rivers · See more »

Delta State

Delta or Delta State is an oil and agricultural producing state of Nigeria, situated in the region known as the South-South geo-political zone with a population of 4,112,445 (males: 2,069,309; females: 2,043,136).

New!!: Rivers State and Delta State · See more »

Deputy Governor of Rivers State

The Deputy Governor of Rivers State is the second highest-ranking official in the executive branch of Rivers State, after the Governor.

New!!: Rivers State and Deputy Governor of Rivers State · See more »

Eastern Region, Nigeria

The Eastern Region was an administrative region in Nigeria, dating back originally from the division of the colony Southern Nigeria in 1954.

New!!: Rivers State and Eastern Region, Nigeria · See more »

Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

New!!: Rivers State and Ecology · See more »

Edoid languages

The Edoid languages are some two-to-three dozen languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State.

New!!: Rivers State and Edoid languages · See more »

Egbema tribe

The Egbema tribe of the Ijaw people lives to the west of the Benin River in northern Delta State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Egbema tribe · See more »

Ekpeye language

Ekpeye is an Igboid language of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ekpeye language · See more »

Elaeis

Elaeis is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms.

New!!: Rivers State and Elaeis · See more »

Elaeis guineensis

Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly called African oil palm or macaw-fat.

New!!: Rivers State and Elaeis guineensis · See more »

Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.

New!!: Rivers State and Electricity · See more »

Eleme language

Eleme is an Ogoni language of Nigeria, spoken by the Eleme people.

New!!: Rivers State and Eleme language · See more »

Eleme people

The Eleme people are one of the various groups of indigenous peoples that inhabit the Niger Delta region of South-South Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Eleme people · See more »

Eleme, Rivers

Eleme is a local government area in Rivers State, Nigeria, located east of the Port Harcourt LGA, it is part of the Greater Port Harcourt metropolitan area.

New!!: Rivers State and Eleme, Rivers · See more »

Emohua

Emohua is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Emohua · See more »

Emohua Town

Emohua is a town, and the Headquarters of Emohua Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Emohua Town · See more »

Energy consumption

Energy consumption is the amount of energy or power used.

New!!: Rivers State and Energy consumption · See more »

Engenni language

Engenni (Ẹgẹnẹ) is an Edoid language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Engenni language · See more »

Engenni people

The Engenni people (Egeni) are considered by themselves and some to be an Ijaw clan and by others (mainly academics) to be a branch of the Edo (Bini) ethnic group.

New!!: Rivers State and Engenni people · See more »

Etche

Etche (Echie) is an ethnic group in Rivers State, Nigeria, Southern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Etche · See more »

Europcar

Europcar is a French car rental company founded in 1949 in Paris.The head office of the holding company, Europcar Group S.A., is in the business park of Val Saint-Quentin at Voisins-le-Bretonneux (Saint Quentin en Yvelines), France.

New!!: Rivers State and Europcar · See more »

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike (born 13 December 1967), also known variously as Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike or Nyesom Wike is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who is the sixth and current Governor of Rivers State.

New!!: Rivers State and Ezenwo Nyesom Wike · See more »

Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

New!!: Rivers State and Ferry · See more »

Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

New!!: Rivers State and Ficus · See more »

Finima Nature Park

The Finima Nature Park is a natural park in Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria covering an area of approximately 1000 ha (3.9 sq mi).

New!!: Rivers State and Finima Nature Park · See more »

First language

A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

New!!: Rivers State and First language · See more »

Fleroya ledermannii

Fleroya ledermannii is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family.

New!!: Rivers State and Fleroya ledermannii · See more »

Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

New!!: Rivers State and Floodplain · See more »

Forb

A forb (sometimes spelled phorb) is an herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grasses, sedges and rushes).

New!!: Rivers State and Forb · See more »

Fourth Nigerian Republic

The Fourth Republic is the republican government of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Fourth Nigerian Republic · See more »

Frankfurt

Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.

New!!: Rivers State and Frankfurt · See more »

Fresh water

Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.

New!!: Rivers State and Fresh water · See more »

Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).

New!!: Rivers State and Frog · See more »

Geopolitical zones of Nigeria

The six geopolitical zones of Nigeria is a major division in modern Nigeria, created during the regime of president General Sani Abacha.

New!!: Rivers State and Geopolitical zones of Nigeria · See more »

Gmelina arborea

Gmelina arborea, (in English beechwood, gmelina, goomar teak, Kashmir tree, Malay beechwood, white teak, yemane), locally known as gamhar, is a fast-growing deciduous tree, occurring naturally throughout greater part of India at altitudes up to 1,500 meters.

New!!: Rivers State and Gmelina arborea · See more »

Gokana language

Gokana (Gòkánà) is an Ogoni language spoken by some 130,000 people in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Gokana language · See more »

Gokana, Rivers

Gokana is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Gokana, Rivers · See more »

Government of Rivers State

The Government of Rivers State consists of elected representatives and appointed officials responsible for the government of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Government of Rivers State · See more »

Governor of Rivers State

The Governor of Rivers State is the chief executive of the Rivers State government and is one of the governors of the thirty-six states of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Governor of Rivers State · See more »

Grey parrot

The grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), also known as the Congo grey parrot or African grey parrot, is an Old World parrot in the family Psittacidae.

New!!: Rivers State and Grey parrot · See more »

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

New!!: Rivers State and Gross domestic product · See more »

Habitat

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

New!!: Rivers State and Habitat · See more »

Harbor

A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences; synonyms: wharves, haven) is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked.

New!!: Rivers State and Harbor · See more »

Harungana

Harungana madagascariensis, the dragon's blood tree, orange-milk tree or haronga, is a species of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae and the sole member of the genus.

New!!: Rivers State and Harungana · See more »

Henry Willink

Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet (7 March 1894 – 20 July 1973), was a British politician and public servant.

New!!: Rivers State and Henry Willink · See more »

House of Representatives (Nigeria)

The House of Representatives is the lower house of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly.

New!!: Rivers State and House of Representatives (Nigeria) · See more »

Ibani tribe

The Ibani tribe of the Ijaw people lives in southern Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ibani tribe · See more »

Igbo language

Igbo (Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh), is the principal native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Igbo language · See more »

Igboid languages

Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family.

New!!: Rivers State and Igboid languages · See more »

Ignatius Ajuru University of Education

Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (formerly Rivers State University of Education) is a Nigerian university based in Rumuolumeni Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

New!!: Rivers State and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education · See more »

Igwuruta

Igwuruta is a town in Ikwerre, Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Igwuruta · See more »

Ijaw languages

The Ijaw languages, also spelt Ịjọ, are the languages spoken by the Ijaw people in southern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ijaw languages · See more »

Ijaw people

Ijaw people (also known by the subgroups "Ijo" or "Izon") are a collection of peoples indigenous to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, inhabiting regions of the states of Bayelsa, Delta, Ondo, Akwa Ibom and Rivers.

New!!: Rivers State and Ijaw people · See more »

Ijoid languages

Ijoid is a proposed but undemonstrated group of languages linking the Ijaw languages (Ịjọ) with the endangered Defaka language.

New!!: Rivers State and Ijoid languages · See more »

Ikwerre language

Ikwerre, also spelt as Ikwere, is a language spoken primarily by the Ikwerre people who inhabit Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ikwerre language · See more »

Ikwerre people

The Ikwerre (also spelt Ikwere) are one of the many native ethnic groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ikwerre people · See more »

Ikwerre, Rivers

Ikwerre is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ikwerre, Rivers · See more »

Imo River

The Imo River (Igbo: Mmiri Imo) is in southeastern Nigeria and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: Rivers State and Imo River · See more »

Imo State

Imo is one of the 36 states of Nigeria and lies in the South East of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Imo State · See more »

Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

New!!: Rivers State and Important Bird Area · See more »

Index of Rivers State-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Index of Rivers State-related articles · See more »

Ipalibo Banigo

Ipalibo Gogo Banigo (née Harry; born 20 December 1952) is a Nigerian medical doctor, politician and the first female Deputy Governor of Rivers State.

New!!: Rivers State and Ipalibo Banigo · See more »

Isaac Adaka Boro

Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro (September 10, 1938 – May 9, 1968), fondly called "Boro", was a Nigerian nationalist, Ijaw, and soldier.

New!!: Rivers State and Isaac Adaka Boro · See more »

ISO 3166-2:NG

ISO 3166-2:NG is the entry for Nigeria in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

New!!: Rivers State and ISO 3166-2:NG · See more »

Judiciary of Rivers State

The Judiciary of Rivers State is a branch of the Government of Rivers State that has sole authority and responsibility for the interpretation and application of the state's laws as well as the adjudication of disputes or controversies.

New!!: Rivers State and Judiciary of Rivers State · See more »

Kalabari language

Kalabari is an Ijaw language of Nigeria spoken in Rivers State and Bayelsa State.

New!!: Rivers State and Kalabari language · See more »

Kalabari tribe

The Kalabari are a tribe of the Ijaw people living in the western Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Kalabari tribe · See more »

Khana language

Khana (Kana), or Ogoni proper, is the prestige variety of the Ogoni languages of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Khana language · See more »

Khana, Rivers

Khana is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Khana, Rivers · See more »

Kugbo language

Kugbo is a Central Delta language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Kugbo language · See more »

Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

New!!: Rivers State and Lagos · See more »

Laportea

Laportea is a genus of plants in the family Urticaceae.

New!!: Rivers State and Laportea · See more »

Life expectancy

Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender.

New!!: Rivers State and Life expectancy · See more »

List of Governors of Rivers State

The following is a list of the Governors of Rivers State.

New!!: Rivers State and List of Governors of Rivers State · See more »

List of Governors of Rivers State by time in office

This is a list of Governors of Rivers State (Nigeria) by time in office.

New!!: Rivers State and List of Governors of Rivers State by time in office · See more »

List of Nigerian states by area

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their surface area.

New!!: Rivers State and List of Nigerian states by area · See more »

List of Nigerian states by date of statehood

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's states and the dates of their creation.

New!!: Rivers State and List of Nigerian states by date of statehood · See more »

List of Nigerian states by GDP

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total GDP in 2010.

New!!: Rivers State and List of Nigerian states by GDP · See more »

List of Nigerian states by population

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total population based on preliminary 2006 Census figures.

New!!: Rivers State and List of Nigerian states by population · See more »

List of Nigerian states' nicknames

The following table presents a listing of Nigerian states' nicknames.

New!!: Rivers State and List of Nigerian states' nicknames · See more »

List of people from Rivers State

The following is a list of notable people who were born in Rivers State, lived in Rivers State, or for whom Rivers State is a significant part of their identity.

New!!: Rivers State and List of people from Rivers State · See more »

List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

New!!: Rivers State and List of sovereign states · See more »

Literacy

Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.

New!!: Rivers State and Literacy · See more »

Livery

A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body.

New!!: Rivers State and Livery · See more »

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

New!!: Rivers State and Lizard · See more »

Local government areas of Nigeria

Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs).

New!!: Rivers State and Local government areas of Nigeria · See more »

Lufthansa

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size and passengers carried during 2017.

New!!: Rivers State and Lufthansa · See more »

Malabo

Malabo (formerly Santa Isabel) is the capital of Equatorial Guinea and the province of Bioko Norte.

New!!: Rivers State and Malabo · See more »

Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

New!!: Rivers State and Mangrove · See more »

Mangrove swamp

A mangrove swamp is a distinct saline woodland or shrubland habitat formed by mangrove trees.

New!!: Rivers State and Mangrove swamp · See more »

Maternal death

Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes." There are two performance indicators that are sometimes used interchangeably: maternal mortality ratio and maternal mortality rate, which confusingly both are abbreviated "MMR".

New!!: Rivers State and Maternal death · See more »

Med-View Airline

Med-View Airline is an airline based in Lagos, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Med-View Airline · See more »

Mobile crane

A mobile crane is a cable-controlled crane mounted on crawlers or rubber-tired carriers or a hydraulic-powered crane with a telescoping boom mounted on truck-type carriers or as self-propelled models.

New!!: Rivers State and Mobile crane · See more »

Mona monkey

The mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) is an Old World monkey that lives in western Africa between Ghana and Cameroon.

New!!: Rivers State and Mona monkey · See more »

Monodora

Monodora is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae.

New!!: Rivers State and Monodora · See more »

Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

New!!: Rivers State and Mortality rate · See more »

Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers.

New!!: Rivers State and Multilingualism · See more »

Musanga cecropioides

Musanga cecropioides, the African corkwood tree or umbrella tree, is found in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone south to Angola and east to Uganda.

New!!: Rivers State and Musanga cecropioides · See more »

National Assembly (Nigeria)

The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature established under section 4 of the Nigerian Constitution.

New!!: Rivers State and National Assembly (Nigeria) · See more »

National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria

The National Bureau of Statistics oversees and publishes statistics for Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria · See more »

Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

New!!: Rivers State and Natural history · See more »

Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also called a natural reserve, bioreserve, (natural/nature) preserve, or (national/nature) conserve) is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

New!!: Rivers State and Nature reserve · See more »

Nephrolepis biserrata

Nephrolepis biserrata (giant swordfern, 长叶肾蕨) is a tropical fern, endemic to Florida, Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, South America, Africa, and southeast Asia.

New!!: Rivers State and Nephrolepis biserrata · See more »

New Calabar River

The New Calabar River is a river in Rivers State, Nigeria, in the Niger River Delta.

New!!: Rivers State and New Calabar River · See more »

Niger Coast Protectorate

The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year, renamed on 12 May 1893, and merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 1 January 1900 to form the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.

New!!: Rivers State and Niger Coast Protectorate · See more »

Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Niger Delta · See more »

Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.

New!!: Rivers State and Niger–Congo languages · See more »

Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

New!!: Rivers State and Nigeria · See more »

Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Rivers

The Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Rivers comprises three Senators representing Rivers East, Rivers West, Rivers Central and thirteen Representatives representing Degema/Bonny, Okrika/Ogu-Bolo, Asalga/Akulga, Ahoada West/Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni, Port Harcourt 1, Ikwerre/Emohua, Khana/Gokana, Etche/Omuma, Tai/Eleme/Oyigbo, Abua-Odual/Ahoada East, Obio/Akpor, Port Harcourt 2, Andoni/Opobo/Nkoro.

New!!: Rivers State and Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Rivers · See more »

Nigerian Tribune

The Nigerian Tribune is an English-language newspaper published in Ibadan in Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Nigerian Tribune · See more »

Nkoroo

Nkoroo is a town in the Bonny territory of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Nkoroo · See more »

Nkoroo language

Nkọrọọ is an Ijaw language spoken by about 4,500 ethnic Nkọrọọ in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Nkoroo language · See more »

Nun River

The Nun River is a river in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Nun River · See more »

O’chi’chi’ language

O’chi’chi’ (Ọchịchị) is a recently discovered and presumably extinct Central Delta language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and O’chi’chi’ language · See more »

Obio-Akpor

Obio-Akpor is a local government area in the metropolis of Port Harcourt, one of the major centres of economic activities in Nigeria, and one of the major cities of the Niger Delta, located in Rivers State.

New!!: Rivers State and Obio-Akpor · See more »

Obolo language

Obolo, or Andoni, is a major Lower Cross River language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Obolo language · See more »

Obolo people

The Andoni people of Rivers and Akwa Ibom States, of Nigeria, are related to the Ijaw people of Niger Delta in Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Obolo people · See more »

Obulom language

Obulom is a Central Delta language of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Obulom language · See more »

Odual language

Odual (Onu Odual) is a poorly studied Central Delta language spoken by the Odual community in the Abua–Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Odual language · See more »

Ogba language

Ogba (also Olu Ogba, Ogbah) is a dialect of the standard Igbo spoken by the Ogba people of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogba language · See more »

Ogba people

Ogba, also called the Ogbah, are indigenous Igbo-speaking people, situated in the extreme south-west of Igboland, in the modern Rivers State of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogba people · See more »

Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni

Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni (also spelled Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni) is a Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, with its capital at Omoku.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni · See more »

Ogbogolo language

Ogbogolo (Obogolo) is a Central Delta language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogbogolo language · See more »

Ogbronuagum language

Ogbronuagum, also called Bukuma after a village in which it is spoken, is a Central Delta language of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogbronuagum language · See more »

Ogoni languages

The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogoni languages · See more »

Ogoni people

The Ogoni Kingdom (also known as the Ogonis) are one of the many indigenous peoples in the region of southeast Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogoni people · See more »

Ogu–Bolo

Ogu–Bolo (also spelled Ogu/Bolo) is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ogu–Bolo · See more »

Okehi

Okehi is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Okehi · See more »

Okodia language

Okodia (Okordia), or Akita, is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Okodia language · See more »

Okrika

Okrika is a port town in Rivers State, Nigeria, capital of the Local Government Area of the same name.

New!!: Rivers State and Okrika · See more »

Omuku

Omoku is a town in Rivers State, Nigeria with a population of about 200,000 people.

New!!: Rivers State and Omuku · See more »

Omuma

Omuma is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Omuma · See more »

Onne

Onne is a port of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Onne · See more »

Opobo

Opobo is a city-state in the southern region of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Opobo · See more »

Opobo–Nkoro

Opobo/Nkoro is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Opobo–Nkoro · See more »

Orashi River

Orashi River (also Urashi or Ulasi), is a river of the lower Niger River basin, and a tributary of Oguta Lake, southeastern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Orashi River · See more »

Oruma language

Oruma is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Oruma language · See more »

Outline of Rivers State

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Rivers State: Rivers State – one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the southernmost part of the country.

New!!: Rivers State and Outline of Rivers State · See more »

Oyigbo

Oyigbo (also Obigbo) is a town 30 kilometers from the port city of Port Harcourt and a Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Oyigbo · See more »

Palm kernel

The palm kernel is the edible seed of the oil palm fruit.

New!!: Rivers State and Palm kernel · See more »

Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.

New!!: Rivers State and Palm oil · See more »

Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

New!!: Rivers State and Paris · See more »

Plain

In geography, a plain is a flat, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation.

New!!: Rivers State and Plain · See more »

Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

New!!: Rivers State and Plant · See more »

Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt (Ikwerre: Ígúọ́cha; Pidgin: Po-ta-kot) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Port Harcourt · See more »

Port Harcourt (local government area)

Port Harcourt Local Government Area (PHALGA) is a local government area of Rivers State in southern Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Port Harcourt (local government area) · See more »

Port Harcourt International Airport

Port Harcourt International Airport is an international airport located in Omagwa, a suburb of Port Harcourt, the capital city of the Rivers State in Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Port Harcourt International Airport · See more »

Port Harcourt NAF Base

Port Harcourt Air Force Base is located in Port Harcourt, a city in the Rivers State of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Port Harcourt NAF Base · See more »

Port Harcourt Polytechnic

Port Harcourt Polytechnic (formerly known as Rivers State College of Arts and Science) is a polytechnic funded by the Government of Rivers State, located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Port Harcourt Polytechnic · See more »

Port of Port Harcourt

The Port of Port Harcourt also called PH Port, is a port complex located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Port of Port Harcourt · See more »

Pygmy hippopotamus

The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) is a small hippopotamid which is native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, primarily in Liberia, with small populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast.

New!!: Rivers State and Pygmy hippopotamus · See more »

Raffia palm

Raffia palms (Raphia) are a genus of about twenty species of palms native to tropical regions of Africa, and especially Madagascar, with one species (R. taedigera) also occurring in Central and South America.

New!!: Rivers State and Raffia palm · See more »

Rainwater harvesting

Rainwater harvesting is the accumulation and storage of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off.

New!!: Rivers State and Rainwater harvesting · See more »

Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.

New!!: Rivers State and Ramsar Convention · See more »

Rauvolfia vomitoria

Rauvolfia vomitoria, the poison devil's-pepper, is a plant species in the genus Rauvolfia.

New!!: Rivers State and Rauvolfia vomitoria · See more »

Rivers East

Rivers East senatorial district is one of the three senatorial districts in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers East · See more »

Rivers South East

Rivers South East senatorial district is one of the three senatorial districts in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers South East · See more »

Rivers State

Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State · See more »

Rivers State House of Assembly

Rivers State House of Assembly is the legislative branch of the Government of Rivers State inaugurated in 1979.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State House of Assembly · See more »

Rivers State Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources

The Rivers State Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources is a government ministry of Rivers State, Nigeria in charge of monitoring, controlling and regulating activities related to energy and natural resources in the state.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources · See more »

Rivers State Ministry of Health

The Rivers State Ministry of Health is a ministry of the Government of Rivers State that facilitates the provision of health services to residents and visitors in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State Ministry of Health · See more »

Rivers State Ministry of Power

The Rivers State Ministry of Power is a government ministry of Rivers State, Nigeria created in July 1999 to serve as the policy-formulating and implementing body for the state's electrical energy and power sector.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State Ministry of Power · See more »

Rivers State Ministry of Transport

The Rivers State Ministry of Transport is the government ministry responsible for matters concerning transportation issues and policy in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State Ministry of Transport · See more »

Rivers State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development

The Rivers State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development (RSMWRRD) is a government ministry of Rivers State, Nigeria entrusted with the management of water resources and promotion of socio-economic development of rural areas in the state.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development · See more »

Rivers State People's Democratic Party

The Rivers State People's Democratic Party, also referred to as Rivers PDP, is the state chapter of the People's Democratic Party in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State People's Democratic Party · See more »

Rivers State University

Rivers State University (RVSU or RSU), formerly Rivers State University of Science and Technology, is a university located in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers State University · See more »

Rivers West

Rivers West senatorial district is one of the three senatorial districts in Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Rivers West · See more »

Royal Niger Company

The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century.

New!!: Rivers State and Royal Niger Company · See more »

Saline water

Saline water (more commonly known as salt water) is water that contains a high concentration of dissolved salts (mainly NaCl).

New!!: Rivers State and Saline water · See more »

Senate of Nigeria

The Senate is the upper house of the Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Senate of Nigeria · See more »

Shade tolerance

In ecology, shade tolerance refers to a plant's ability to tolerate low light levels.

New!!: Rivers State and Shade tolerance · See more »

Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay, whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar.

New!!: Rivers State and Silt · See more »

Skink

Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae and the infraorder Scincomorpha.

New!!: Rivers State and Skink · See more »

Sky blue

Sky blue is the name of a colour that resembles the colour of the sky at noon.

New!!: Rivers State and Sky blue · See more »

Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

New!!: Rivers State and Snake · See more »

Solar power

Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination.

New!!: Rivers State and Solar power · See more »

South South (Nigeria)

South South Nigeria is one of the geopolitical zones of Nigeria, consisting of the following states;.

New!!: Rivers State and South South (Nigeria) · See more »

Southern Nigeria Protectorate

Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.

New!!: Rivers State and Southern Nigeria Protectorate · See more »

States of Nigeria

A Nigerian State is a federated political entity, which shares sovereignty with the Federal Government of Nigeria, There are 36 States in Nigeria, which are bound together by a federal agreement.

New!!: Rivers State and States of Nigeria · See more »

Strophanthus preussii

Strophanthus preussii, Preuss' strophanthus, is an evergreen liana up to long or a shrub up to tall, with a stem diameter up to.

New!!: Rivers State and Strophanthus preussii · See more »

Symphonia globulifera

Symphonia globulifera is a timber tree native to Central America, South America and Africa.

New!!: Rivers State and Symphonia globulifera · See more »

Tai, Rivers

Tai is a Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State in Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Tai, Rivers · See more »

Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.

New!!: Rivers State and Taxicab · See more »

Teak

Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species placed in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae.

New!!: Rivers State and Teak · See more »

Tee language

Tẹẹ, or Tai, is an Ogoni language and the language of the Tai tribe of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Tee language · See more »

Terminalia

Terminalia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the god Terminus, who presided over boundaries.

New!!: Rivers State and Terminalia · See more »

The Hertz Corporation

The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of Hertz Global Holdings Inc., is an American car rental company based in Estero, Florida that operates 9,700 international corporate and franchisee locations.

New!!: Rivers State and The Hertz Corporation · See more »

The Tide (Nigeria)

The Tide is a Nigerian daily newspaper.

New!!: Rivers State and The Tide (Nigeria) · See more »

Topography

Topography is the study of the shape and features of the surface of the Earth and other observable astronomical objects including planets, moons, and asteroids.

New!!: Rivers State and Topography · See more »

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

New!!: Rivers State and Tributary · See more »

Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest.

New!!: Rivers State and Tropical rainforest · See more »

Turtle

Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.

New!!: Rivers State and Turtle · See more »

Uapaca

Uapaca is a genus of plant, in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1858.

New!!: Rivers State and Uapaca · See more »

Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni language

Ukwuani, Aboh, and Ndoni are a cluster of Igboid languages of Nigeria.

New!!: Rivers State and Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni language · See more »

Understory

In forestry and ecology, understory (or understorey, underbrush, undergrowth) comprises plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor.

New!!: Rivers State and Understory · See more »

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

New!!: Rivers State and UNESCO · See more »

United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

New!!: Rivers State and United States Agency for International Development · See more »

University of Port Harcourt

The University of Port Harcourt is a university in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt.

New!!: Rivers State and University of Port Harcourt · See more »

Upper Orashi Forest Reserve

Upper Orashi Forest Reserve is a nature reserve in Rivers State, Nigeria located on the upper reaches of the Orashi River, near the village of Ikodi in Ahoada West.

New!!: Rivers State and Upper Orashi Forest Reserve · See more »

Wastewater treatment

Wastewater treatment is a process used to convert wastewater into an effluent (outflowing of water to a receiving body of water) that can be returned to the water cycle with minimal impact on the environment or directly reused.

New!!: Rivers State and Wastewater treatment · See more »

Water supply

Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.

New!!: Rivers State and Water supply · See more »

Water well

A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.

New!!: Rivers State and Water well · See more »

Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

New!!: Rivers State and Watt · See more »

West Africa Time

West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa; with countries west of Benin instead using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; equivalent to UTC with no offset).

New!!: Rivers State and West Africa Time · See more »

Wet season

The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

New!!: Rivers State and Wet season · See more »

Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

New!!: Rivers State and Wetland · See more »

White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light.

New!!: Rivers State and White · See more »

White-throated guenon

The white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of rainforests or tropical areas of Nigeria and Benin.

New!!: Rivers State and White-throated guenon · See more »

Wildlife

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

New!!: Rivers State and Wildlife · See more »

Yakubu Gowon

General Yakubu "Jack" Dan-Yumma Gowon (born 19 October 1934) is the former head of state (Head of the Federal Military Government) of Nigeria from 1966 to 1975.

New!!: Rivers State and Yakubu Gowon · See more »

Yellow-backed duiker

The yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) is a forest dwelling antelope in the order Artiodactyla from the family Bovidae.

New!!: Rivers State and Yellow-backed duiker · See more »

1st millennium

The first millennium was a period of time that began on January 1, AD 1, and ended on December 31, AD 1000, of the Julian calendar.

New!!: Rivers State and 1st millennium · See more »

Redirects here:

Geography of Rivers, Geography of Rivers State, List of rivers of Rivers State, NG-RI, Riverians, Rivers (Nigeria), Rivers (state), Rivers Province, Rivers State, Nigeria, Rivers state.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_State

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »