Mini Contest For Port Harcourt Steemians | Let's Talk About Our State, City, and Area by @chiomy

Thank you @bright-obias and @prolee for this contest.

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About Port Harcourt City

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Port Harcourt city is also known as ‘Pitakwa’ is the capital city of Rivers State. It is notably the fifth-largest city after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, and Benin City. It has about 1,865,000 estimated inhabitants as of 2016. It is well known to house the Nigerian petroleum industry and oil firms have offices in the city including Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron. There are quite a good number of tertiary institutions in the city and they include

• Rivers state university
• University of Port Harcourt
• Kenule Besor Wiwa Polytechnic
• Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic
• Ignatius Ajuru University and
• Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology.

There is also an international airport and a seaport. The city also has three stadiums as Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Yakubu Gowon stadium, and the ever-beautiful Sharks Stadium.

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Why is Port Harcourt city one of the most popular cities in Nigeria

It is one of the most popular cities in Nigeria because of the industrial and commercial activities that occur here and the presence of operational headquarter of top oil firms. Its serenity and cultural heritage also give it an edge.

What is the city known for?

PH City is known for quite an array of things and they include;

Literature

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Port Harcourt Book Festival is one of the popular events in the city that was created in 2008, its aim is to promote the habit of reading and local literacy amongst citizens. This event has hosted renowned publishers like EPP Books Services, Learn Africa Plc, and others.

Tourism and Recreation

There are so many beautiful recreational places and they are;

Port Harcourt Zoo

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This is a state-owned zoological park in the city

Isaac Boro Park

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This is an outdoor recreation area and public park

Port Harcourt Pleasure Park

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This is also an outdoor recreation area and public park

Garden City Amusement Park

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This Park promotes family fun, education, and leisure. It is eco-friendly and very secure.

Port Harcourt Golf Club

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As the name goes, it is an area for playing golf and is one of the oldest golf clubs in Nigeria.

Food

We cannot talk about PH city and miss out on the food. There are two notable delicacies of the city and they include;
Bole and Onunu.

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Bole is a typical food that includes yam and/or plantain with fish and finished with sumptuous palm oil sauce. It is one of the best foods eaten here even by foreigners and has even transcended to become an annual event called Bole Festival where citizens gather to eat Bole and familiarize themselves while at it.

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Onunu is a nutritious and healthy delicacy made from yam ponded with boiled ripe plantain and finished off with palm oil. It can actually be served with spicy fresh fish pepper soup or stew.

Oil mining

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The city is known for crude oil and natural gas. Major oil mining in the country is carried out here and it is home to so many multinational oil and gas companies. It is speculated that the cost of living is particularly high in this city because of the presence of crude oil, hence it is assumed that everyone is “rich” at some level….“We dey chop oil money” as we say it in Pidgin.

As a resident, where do you think is the best place to live

There are quite a lot of amazing places to reside here and I have lived in different parts of the city and on that stand, I can rightfully say that the best place to live is Nkpolu-Oroworukwo (Mile 3). This is based on the following reasons;

• It is a very peaceful area although there are so many touts here. One of the good things is that these touts do not necessarily disturb the residents unduly and most important, one gets to learn the “street life” from living in Mile 3.
• There is constant power supply here, without mincing words I can say that we enjoy power at least 18hrs per day.
• It is very accessible, there are good road networks that connect to different parts of the city. Mile 3 is among the township of the city and can be said to be situated in the heart of PH. You can easily get vehicles going to different parts of the city and state at large.
• It houses one of the biggest markets in the state (Mile 3 market) where things are sold cheaply and you can get almost anything you want.

Since you have been in this city, what is the most awful moment you’ve ever heard

My most awful moment in this city was in 2014 when four students of the University of Port Harcourt faced jungle justice and were burnt alive in Aluu Community. Although it has been 7years now, I still feel bad whenever I think of the incident. It was all over the news that year and what made it more gruesome was that I knew two of the deceased as they were my seniors in secondary school. This is definitely the most awful moment I’ve heard; the news has refused to erase from my memory.

Nkpolu-Oroworukwo road.

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I am inviting @armstrongdiho, @meniya @beautiefair and @realamy to participate in this contest.

Special regards to:
@prolee
@bright-obias
@focusnow
@steemalive