Mini Contest For Port Harcourt Steemians| Let's Talk About Our, State, City, And Area @graceyjossy

Hello Steemians,

Frankly, I am so excited to have been given the privilege to tell you all about my city, Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Nigeria. It is the capital and largest city of Rivers state and is located in the Niger Delta, it has been discovered to be the fifth largest city in Nigeria.
Port Harcourt as given by Sir Fredrick Lugard in honour of Lewis Vernon Harcourt, is highly inhabited in population with people from different countries and states successfully and comfortably living.

Source Road Network in Port Harcourt

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Port Harcourt is a major industrial centre as it has a large number of multinational firms, as well as other industrial concerns particularly business related to the petroleum industry. It is the chief oil refining city in Nigeria, thus one of the wealthiest states in Nigeria in terms of gross domestic product and foreign exchange revenue from the oil industry, crude oil being its principal export earner, therefore called The Treasure Base Of The Nation.
In Port Harcourt, oil refineries, universities/schools (both government owned and private),sea ports (like the Onne seaport), multinational companies (like Shell, ELF, LNG & Ajip) are situated. There are good infrastructure like good roads, hospitals, well planned housing an examples is the 18 storey Secretariat building, the highest building in the south-south region, hotels like the Presidential Hotel (5star).
Port Harcourt has almost half of the nation's biggest stadiums E.g Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Elekahia Stadium, etc. Has Zoo, Tourist centres (E.g P.H Pleasure park, Finima nature Park, Isaac Boot Garden park), spars, aquarium, and lots more. There's absolutely high chances of gaining good job opportunities in P.H.

Source 18 Storey Secretariat Building

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She holds a yearly festival called The Port Harcourt Book Festival, formerly known as Garden City Literary Festival. There's a monthly routine for sanitation exercise across the City where you'll see everyone getting fully involved, due to the cleanliness of the state it was nicknamed The Garden City.
Port Harcourt is known for a particular special delicacy called bolè (roasted yam, plantain, fish and palm oil sauce) and its yearly festival.

Source Bolè

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The Best Area To Live in P.H

The best area to live in Port Harcourt is Town axis, known as the old Port Harcourt, it has streets named after certain people that have immensely contributed to her development, electricity and security of lives and property is satisfactory, good road network (E.g Aggrey road), less traffic jam, affordable apartments, good drainage systems, comfortable market places.
There are several restaurants/eateries and dance bars, cinemas, malls, public houses, lounges, clubs, and cultural centres spread out around the area. The city has been placed amongst the top 3 city with the best nightlife in Nigeria, it is always lively that one cannot live depressed. Also, most of the high educational institutions are located here.

Aggrey Road, Town, Port Harcourt

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My Awful Moment Experienced In P.H

The most awful moment I've ever had in PH City was during the governance of Sir/Dr. Peter Odili the year 2003-2007, where cult groups/militants started shooting all over the city fighting the government to give them their own share of the states oil wealth, due to non-compliance by the government they increased the shooting which later led to the intervention of the Nigerian Military Joint Task Force (NMJTF), the clash was now between the militants vs NMJTF and it led to the death of several innocent people, shielded casualties, loss of property, restriction of movement, people died of hunger because we couldn't even step out of our house to buy and sell. It was really terrifying, but I thank God we've passed that phase.

I invite @ferguson001, @chiomy to join this contest as Port Harcourt steemians and to tell you more interesting things about Port Harcourt City I might have not mentioned to you.
Please, it won't be nice to hear that all through your days on earth you never visited The Garden City,Port Harcourt .

Special thanks to;
@prolee and @bright-obias