Bonny, Rivers Bonny, Rivers Bonny (or Ubani) is an island town and a Local Government Area in Rivers State in southern Nigeria, on the Bight of Bonny. It was also the capital of the Kingdom of Bonny. Traditionally (especially between the 15th and 19th centuries) it was a major trading post of the eastern delta. Bonny Island, is a major export point for oil. The region produces a type of crude oil known as Bonny Light oil. Much of the oil extracted onshore in Rivers State is piped to Bonny for export. It has the biggest LNG Gas Plant in Nigeria with
Bonny Island outlying fishing settlements lying along the Bonny River’s coastline. Finima is an aboriginal community predating Bonny (okoloma)and situated along south of Bonny Island. First settlers of Finima were the Nyamkpos and Koniboye Awanta Tobins of Kongo Lineage. The hinterland includes the village communities that serve as home to natives of Bonny kingdom. Presently, the Island Kingdom of Bonny has thirty five chieftaincy houses. These are fourteen major chieftaincy houses (five among which are Duawaris); twenty minor chieftaincy houses; and then the George Pepple's lineage of the Perekule royal house that has recently been producing Kings of the Kingdom. The ancestry