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Port Harcourt Cemetery

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Country
  
Nigeria

Owned by
  
City of Port Harcourt

Type
  
Public

Size
  
hectares

Location
  
Old Township, Port Harcourt

Address
  
Old Port Harcourt Twp, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Port Harcourt Cemetery is a city-owned and operated public cemetery located along Aggrey Road in the Old Township district of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It is the oldest cemetery still in use in the city and is notable as the burial site of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and his associates. It also contains one commonwealth burial of the 1939 - 1945 World War.

Interments

  • Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941 – 1995), writer and activist
  • Mike Lloyd Toku (1993 - 2012)
  • Ogoni Nine
  • Stephen Edward Murray-Bruce (1939 - 2013)
  • References

    Port Harcourt Cemetery Wikipedia