Brass River Brass River The Brass River is one of the branches of the Nun River, which in turn is a branch of the Niger River, in the Niger Delta in Nigeria. In the 19th century the river was an important trading route, first for slaves and later for palm oil. Brass River Crude Oil is named for a refinery on the river. The name "Brass" is European, said to have been given to the Nembe coastal villages because they traded for brass pans and neptunes to use for salt boiling. The "Brass Ijo" were all the Ijaw people from Cape Formosa
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