Bonny (Nigeria)

Bonny (formerly Ibani or Ubani ) is a town with 15,537 inhabitants, calculated (as of 2012), according to other sources 13,000 inhabitants in Rivers State in southeast Nigeria. The city is located on the island of Bonny Iceland in the Niger Delta on the Bonny River, about 10 miles from the open ocean ( here the Bight of Biafra ) away.

History

Originally Bonny was an important trading post of the Ijaw and from the 15th to the 19th century capital of the Kingdom of Bonny. Bonny was a center of West African slave trade. As the abolition of the slave trade in Bonny was enforced by the British, turned the place around its export products. In the 1850s it was already an important port for the export of palm oil and precious woods. Since 1916, its importance was reduced as an export harbor by the newly established port of 56 km upstream Port Harcourt.

The island of Bonny Iceland is a significant Verschiffungsort for Nigerian oil. The region was also the type of oil Bonny Light Oil the name. Large parts of the pumped oil in the surrounding area are managed via pipeline to Bonny and exported from there.