Rumuokoro
Rumuokoro is a town in Obio-Akpor, Rivers State, Nigeria.

Rumuokoro is a town in Obio-Akpor, Rivers State, Nigeria. It is the meeting point of five major roads in Nigerian economy and the gateway to and from the city of Port Harcourt. The word, 'Rumuo' in Rumuokoro was believed to be coined by the Ikwere ethnic group of Rivers State.
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Worth seeing in and around Rumuokoro
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Yakubu Gowon Stadium
Yakubu Gowon Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the Elekahia suburb of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Rivers United F.C., formerly Dolphins F.C. The stadium has a capacity of 16,000.
5.2 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 02Catholic Institute of West Africa
The Catholic Institute of West Africa is a tertiary educational institution in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It is a higher ecclesiastical institute of the Catholic Church and remains the leading theological facility in West Africa.
5.6 km · Religious institute in Nigeria · Wikipedia - 03Government Secondary School
Government Secondary School, Eneka is a coeducational public high school in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is located within Eneka, a town in the Obio-Akpor local government area.
6 km · Government educational institute in Nigeria · Wikipedia - 04Salvation Ministries
Salvation Ministries is a Nigerian Pentecostal Christian megachurch headquartered in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It was founded by Pastor David Ibiyeomie on 13 April 1997.
4 km · Church in Nigeria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rumuokoro
- Airports
- Port Harcourt (PHC), 18 km · Asaba (ABB), 153 km · Akanu Ibiam (ENU), 189 km
- Stations
- Rivers Angels F.C., 4.8 km · Military Hospital, Port Harcourt, 4.3 km · Port Harcourt City Airport, 3.4 km · Ada-George Road, 4.6 km · New GRA, Port Harcourt, 4.9 km
- Asaba → Rumuokoro151 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · ₦10,600–14,150
- Enegu → RumuokoroTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Lagos → Rumuokoro436 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · ₦98,540–152,850
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rumuokoro
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rumuokoro. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAgofure Motors Chisco ABC Transport Peace Mass transit From Nembe by ferry.
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Next door to Rumuokoro
Rumuokoro is 10 km from Port Harcourt, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Port Harcourtlocal government area of Nigeria3.3 km
- Rumuodaraward of the Obia/Akpor legislative council4.1 km