Tai Towns And Villages

Tai is a Local Government Area (LGA) in Nigeria’s Rivers State. It has an area of 159 km2 with a population of 117,797 as of the 2006 census.

Tai is a Local Government Area (LGA) in Nigeria’s Rivers State. It has an area of 159 km2 with a population of 117,797 as of the 2006 census.

Below is the complete list Of Towns And Villages In Tai Local Government, Rivers State, Nigeria:

  1. Ban-Ogoi
  2. Bara-Ale
  3. Bara-Alue
  4. Barayira
  5. Borobara
  6. Botem
  7. Bunu
  8. Deeyor Kira
  9. Gbam
  10. Gbene-Ue
  11. Gio
  12. Horo
  13. Kebara Kira
  14. Korokoro (the seat of the Tai monarch)
  15. Koroma
  16. Kpite
  17. Kporghor
  18. Nonwa Tai (Kebara)
  19. Nonwa Uedume
  20. Orkpo
  21. Sime
  22. Ueken

It’s part of the Okrika/Oyigbo/Tai/Eleme Senate constituency, represented by George Thompson Sekibo since April 2007.

In April 2007 Governorship elections, Tai LGA had a 99.6% turnout. Rotimi Amaechi, also of the PDP, was declared governor after Celestine Omehia’s election was invalidated.

Barry Mpigi led Tai LGA in February 2009.

Ogonis speak Tee and Baan.

The Tua Tua Kingdom and the Barasi Nonwa Kingdom are both part of the Gbene Mene Tai’s Tai kingdom. Primarily farming and fishing.

Samuel Nnee was the Kpite Community’s supreme monarch in September 2009.

Shell Nigeria operates most of the LGA’s oil wells and pipelines. Oil extraction hasn’t benefited the local populace, and infrastructure is inadequate.

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People launched a violent fight against land degradation in the 1990s.

In June 2001, a broken oil pipeline in Baraale spewed crude oil onto adjacent forests, farmlands, and homes.

The spilled oil caught fire in October 2001, inflicting considerable environmental harm. Violence, abduction, and arson plague the region.