Yenagoa
Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria.
Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria. It is located in the Niger Delta region of the country at coordinates 4°55′29″N 6°15′51″E.
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Worth seeing in and around Yenagoa
One place 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.
- 01Bayelsa Medical University
Bayelsa Medical University is located in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State in Nigeria. It was established in 2019 by then-governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson.
9.3 km · university in Yenagoa, Nigeria · Wikipedia
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Things to do
Swimming, fishing and boat racing.
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Where to eat
Megroasty Foods, By Sunky Supermarket, 14 Azikoro Street, Ekeki, megroastyfoods@gmail.com. 7AM. Offers dine-in, take away and delivery. Bloozzom Bistro Salad Bar and Cafe, Along Old Assembly Quarters,. 24 hr. Dine-in, delivery. Foundation Bakery,. 8AM–8PM. Dine-in, take away.
- 01Atlantic Flavour
- 02D'Delicatessen
- 03Cocopot Restaurant
They offer various menus like soup, rice recipes, and yam recipes.
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Getting to Yenagoa
- Airports
- Port Harcourt (PHC), 68 km · Asaba (ABB), 135 km · Akanu Ibiam (ENU), 210 km
- Port Harcourt → Yenagoa84 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · ₦6,650–8,850
- Asaba → Yenagoa150 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · ₦12,500–16,650
- Enegu → YenagoaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Yenagoa
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 Yenagoa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundFrom here, travelers board shared motorized speedboats or charter private marine vessels to track the deep delta creeks.
- Get aroundA shared speedboat ride from Swali down the river channels to Brass Island takes roughly 1.5 to 2 hours of high-speed travel.
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