Buguma City is a larger

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

Rivers State Rivers is a states of Nigeria, state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region). Formed on 27 May 1967, when it was split from the former Eastern Region, Nigeria, Eastern Region, Rivers State borders include Imo State, Im ...

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. It is the

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of the

Asari-Toru Asari-Toru is a Local Government Areas of Nigeria, Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. General information Asari-Toru Local government area, Local Government Area was created out of the old Degema, Nigeria, Degema Local government are ...

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and base of the

Kalabari Kingdom The Kalabari Kingdom, also called Elem Kalabari ( Kalabari: ''New Shipping Port''), is the independent traditional state of the Kalabari people, a sub-group of the Ijaw tribe, eastern ijo, in the Niger River Delta. It is recognized as a tradi ...

, a

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. The town has an official post office and a big set of commercial fish ponds set up by the state government. The current mayor, popularly addressed as chairman, of the LGA, which Buguma City is the headquarters, is Hon. Engr. Sule Amachree Ph.D It is also home to the great King Amachree of the

Kalabari kingdom The Kalabari Kingdom, also called Elem Kalabari ( Kalabari: ''New Shipping Port''), is the independent traditional state of the Kalabari people, a sub-group of the Ijaw tribe, eastern ijo, in the Niger River Delta. It is recognized as a tradi ...

. In 1983, Buguma was designated a city by the

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of Melford Okilo and that status subsists to date.The Official Gazette of Rivers State of Nigeria No. 16, published in Port Harcourt on the 25th of August 1983 referred to “Buguma City Council”; the only other City Council after Port Harcourt City Council.

Notable people

* Hilda Dokubo *

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Tam David-West Tamunoemi Sokari David-West (August 26, 1936 – November 11, 2019) was a Nigerian academic, social critic, and federal minister. Academia David-West was born in Buguma, Kalabari Kingdom, Kalabari, in what is now Rivers State. He received his hig ...

Rex Lawson Rex Jim Lawson (4 March 1938 – 16 January 1971), known as Cardinal Rex, was a singer, trumpeter and bandleader from Buguma in present Rivers State, Nigeria. He became one of the best-known highlife musicians of the 1960s in Africa when Cardina ...

References

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