Port Harcourt (local government area)


Port Harcourt Local Government Area is a local government area of Rivers State in southern Nigeria. It is one of the 23 local government areas created for the state. Its administrative seat is located in Port Harcourt. Although the local government consists of two different ethnic groups the Okrika in the South and Ikwerre in the North, it has been advised that the local government be divided into two homogeneous local governments.

Geography

Port Harcourt local government area is included in the Greater Port Harcourt region. It is situated southeast of Ahoada and about northwest of Bori. It is bounded to the south by Okrika, to the east by Eleme, to the north by Obio-Akpor and to the west by Degema. It has a total size of 109 square kilometres.

Towns, urban communities and neighbourhoods

The total population in the area was last recorded at 638,360 people in 2011 from 538,558 in 2006.

Government

The local government area is part of the Rivers East Senatorial district consisting 20 electoral wards. The Mayor, who is the highest-ranking official in the Port Harcourt local government is elected by and presides as both head of wards and head of the local government council.

Wards

The following list shows the Mayors of Port Harcourt:

Tertiary

currently has its main campus at Nkpolu Oroworukwo, although plans are in progress to relocate the institution to a new 524-acre site within the Greater Port Harcourt urban centre.

Primary and secondary

Many private schools including some government schools are located in and around this area. Primary education in many cases starts at the age of 4 for majority of Riverians. Students spend five or six years in primary school and graduate with a school leaving certificate. At the secondary level, students spend six years, that is 3 years of JSS, and 3 years of SSS.
The following are primary and secondary schools operating within the Port Harcourt local government area: