Oyigbo


Oyigbo is a town 30 kilometers from the port city of Port Harcourt and a local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria. It is a satellite of Port Harcourt.
Sir Precious Oforji was elected Chairman of the Oyigbo LGA in 2008. EZE Mike Nwaji was installed the traditional of Obigbo in 1998.

Oil and gas exploration

operates an oil well in the LGA. Eastern Network Gas Pipeline passes through Oyigbo in the north. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the Rivers State Government under Gov. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi pledged to work together to restore production activities at the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC operated Obigbo Gas Plant. On November 1, 2013, citing considerable health and safety risk to people, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd, JV shut down Obigbo gas plant over encroachment on the right-of-way of gas pipelines.
On June 28, 2015, SPDC JV's announced that its Afam VI located in Okoloma village of Ogbigbo had delivered 20 million MWh of electricity into the national grid and created over 150 jobs.

Demographics

The Obigbo people are of Igbo extraction.

In popular culture

According to Sola Adeyemi, an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, the town "O" in Timothy Ogene's The Day Ends Like Any Day refers to Oyigbo:
"The Day... starts with Sam growing up in Oyigbo, near Port-Harcourt, a vibrant community only identified as O. in the book. The author’s choice of 'O' could be a distanciation technique, as there are several towns around Port-Harcourt with names beginning with O, such as Okrika, Ogbogoro, Old Banana, Onne, or Ogoni, to mention a few. However, the description of the blocks of residence and the environment recognisably describes Oyigbo, 'lying east of Port Harcourt, south of the new highway that runs from Aba to Port Harcourt, and west of the murky Imo River'".