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Шаблон:Infobox settlement Eleme is a local government area in Rivers State, Nigeria.[1] It is part of the Port Harcourt metropolitan city.

Eleme has its headquarters in the town of Ogale.Шаблон:Cn It covers an area of 138 km2 and at the 2006 Census had a population of 190,884.[2] The Eleme people are Eleme's main indigenous ethnic group.[3] Eleme LGA has two districts- Nchia and Odido and both administered under the Crown of the Oneh Eh Eleme (King of Eleme.)Шаблон:Cn

As explained in a book edited by Imelda Icheji Lawrence Udoh and others, the Eleme language, of the Cross-River branch of the larger Niger-Congo language family,[4] is the main spoken language.[5]

Eleme has two of Nigeria's four, as of 2005, petroleum refineries and one of Nigeria's busiest seaport and the largest seaport in West Africa located at Onne, a famous town with numerous industries.[6]

Towns and villages in Eleme Local government

Eleme has ten major towns or principalities which they refer to as The Ten Kingdoms. Each of these towns has numerous clans, subclans and villages headed by a Paramount Ruler popularly known as Oneh Eh- Eta. Under it you have the traditional rulers and the chiefs who's affairs is to over see smaller units of the traditionals. The ten major towns includes:

  1. Agbonchia
  2. Akpajo
  3. Alesa
  4. Aleto
  5. Alode
  6. Ebubu
  7. Ekporo
  8. Eteo
  9. Ogale
  10. Onne

References

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External links

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  4. Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2006) "Appendix: Classification of Languages Used in Database for Study" Auxiliary verb constructions Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, page 400, Шаблон:ISBN
  5. Udoh, Imelda Icheji Lawrence (editor) (2003) The languages of the South-South zone of Nigeria: a geo-political profile Concept Publications, Lagos, Nigeria, pages 85, 87, Шаблон:ISBN
  6. Udogu, Emmanuel Ike (2005) Nigeria in the twenty-first century: strategies for political stability and peaceful coexistence Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, page 72, Шаблон:ISBN