Bodo River, Gokana

Bodo River is located in Bodo-city, Gokana Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria. Bodo River is one of the rivers in Gokana Kingdom. It has been a means of survival for the people of Gokana Kingdom. Men and women go fishing in Bodo River as a means of survival. The Bodo-Bonny Road contract being carried out by Julius Berger company has been constructed on the Bodo River. In 2008 and 2009, two incidents of massive oil spills from the trans Niger pipeline devastated the Bodo River and coastline, destroying every living thing in the river, opportunities, made fishing impossible, and ruined income that could have come from other aquatic resources. the water still remains dark and slippery, the mangroves covered with black mud and the creeks, which are now a mixture of crude and water, have now become the only source of seafood classified as dangerous to health.

Flows through: Nigeria.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.