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Sapele

Entandrophragma cylindricum is a tree of the genus Entandrophragma of the family Meliaceae.

Sapele
Sapele · Timothy A. Gonsalves (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Entandrophragma cylindricum is a tree of the genus Entandrophragma of the family Meliaceae. It is commonly known as sapele or sapelli or sapele mahogany, as well as aboudikro, assi, and muyovu.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sapele

3 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.

  1. 01
    Sapele Stadium

    Sapele Township Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Sapele, Nigeria. It is used mostly for football matches and athletics.

    900 m · multi-use stadium in Sapele, Nigeria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Oghara Township Stadium

    Oghara Township Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Oghara, Nigeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosted some of the final tournaments for the 2006 Women's African Football Championship.

    5.2 km · multi-use stadium in Oghara, Nigeria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Admiralty University of Nigeria

    Admiralty University of Nigeria located in Ibusa, Delta State, Nigeria, was originally established as a private university through the joint efforts of Nigerian Navy Holdings Limited and Hellenic Education of Nigeria in December 2017. The institution became a Federal University through an Act assented to by past President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Gen.

    3.4 km · The Admiralty University of Nigeria was established as a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) through the joint efforts of Nigerian Navy Holdings. · Wikipedia

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See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Sapele has a stadium known as Sapele Township Stadium which is a multi-use stadium in Sapele, Nigeria. This stadium is used mostly for football matches and athletics in the area and it can accommodate up to 16,000 people. It is the temporary home stadium of Bayelsa United Football Club. Sapele Township Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Sapele, Nigeria. It is used mostly for football matches and athletics.

From Wikivoyage: Sapele, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

If one is feeling a little bit adventurous and have never visited Benin city before which is very proximate to Sapele, he or she may want to take advantage of the opportunity to explore the town, rent a canoe or ferry boat from Sapele and row him/herself all the way to Benin to have a fun time without hitches.

From Wikivoyage: Sapele, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

There are a couple of restaurants in Sapele that can offer visitors quite an affordable and delicious meal seamlessly. Prominent among these restaurants include:

  1. 01
    Lizzy Food

    5, Adeola Rd,.

  2. 02
    Great Food

    New Ogorode Rd, Amukpe.

  3. 03
    Turn Up Restaurant

    Cemetery Rd.

  4. 04
    Aroma Food Land

    74, Okpe Rd,.

  5. 05
    Shanghai Restaurant & Bar

    Adjacent Hamsphire hotel, Miller Estate, GRA, 331107,.

From Wikivoyage: Sapele, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Sapele

Airports
Asaba (ABB), 115 km · Port Harcourt (PHC), 171 km · Akanu Ibiam (ENU), 218 km
  • Asaba → Sapele
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · ₦10,300–13,750
  • Port Harcourt → Sapele
    193 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · ₦13,150–17,550
  • Enegu → Sapele
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sapele

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 Sapele. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    513 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    2,778 km
  3. 03
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,979 km
  4. 04
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    3,033 km
  5. 05
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    3,043 km

If you know how people move in Sapele – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sapele

Sapele is 43 km from Warri, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.