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Nun River

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Nun River

River, southern Nigeria. Considered the direct continuation of the Niger River, it flows southwest to the Gulf of Guinea, at Akassa. It was a trade route in the 19th century, when the Igbo kingdom controlled commerce. Petroleum was discovered along the Nun in 1963, and oil is piped from the oil fields along the Trans-Niger Pipeline.



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Scores of Nigerian security officers and several local oil workers have been killed while hundreds of foreign and local workers have been kidnapped In early October, 60 Shell workers were kidnapped when armed youths seized the firm's pumping station on the Nun river in Bayelsa State.
Such screens reflect marked historical differences between Ijo living east and west of the Nun River by depicting merchant princes instead of forest spirits, yet they continue to express the warrior ethos by displaying weapons, trophy heads, and war paint.
 
 
 
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