Brass,_Nigeria
Brass, Nigeria
Place in Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Brass is a Local Government Area[1] in Bayelsa State,[2] southern Nigeria.[3] Its headquarters are in the town of Twon-Brass on Brass Island along the coast, it has a coastline of approximately 90 km on the Bight of Bonny.[4] Much of the area of the LGA is occupied by the Edumanom National Forest.
It has an area of 1,404 km2 and a population[5] of 185,049 at the 2006 census.[6]
The postal code of the area is 562.[7] It is a traditional fishing village of the Nembe branch of the Ijo people, it became a slave-trading port for the state of Brass (Nembe) in the early 19th century. It was ruled by African[8] merchant “houses,” which were encouraged by the European traders,[9] the state’s chief slave-collecting centres (Brass and Nembe) often sent war canoes into the interior—especially through Igbo country—to capture slaves.[10]