Tai Towns And Villages

Tai is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria, with its council headquarters at Saakpenwa. It had 120,308 people at the 2006 census, projected to 173,000 by 2022. It covers 159 square kilometres across three districts: Tua-Tua, Nonwa and Kira Central.

Tai is mostly Ogoni, seat of the Tai kingdom under the Gbenemene Tai. It sits in the Rivers South-East Senatorial District, represented by Senator Wogu Olaka Johnson since a June 2026 by-election. It shares the Eleme/Tai/Oyigbo Federal Constituency with Felix Uche Nwaeke in the House of Representatives. Its postal code is 501102.

The list below was checked against 2023 INEC ward and polling-unit records, the GeoNames and OpenStreetMap gazetteers, the 2011 UNEP Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland, and postal-code registries, name by name:

  1. Ban-Ogoi
  2. Bara-Ale
  3. Bara-Alue
  4. Barayira
  5. Borobara
  6. Botem
  7. Bunu
  8. Bunu Barana
  9. Deeyor Kira
  10. Deyor Chara
  11. Emu
  12. Gbam
  13. Gbene-Ue
  14. Gio
  15. Horo
  16. Kani-Banogoi
  17. Kebara Kira
  18. Korokoro
  19. Koroma
  20. Kpite
  21. Kpogo
  22. Kporghor
  23. Nonwa
  24. Nonwa Kebara
  25. Nonwa Uedume
  26. Norkpo
  27. Saakpenwa
  28. Sime
  29. Ueken