Port Harcourt
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Burna Boy spent significant time on the road as a child.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023
Similar attacks were also reported in Sokoto state in the north-west, Kano in the north, and Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2023
The police also asserted that Mr. Igwe, a representative in the southern city of Port Harcourt, was found not with the national currency, naira, but with large piles of American $100 bills in his car.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023
On his first visit this month to Anchor Hospital in Port Harcourt, the capital of oil-producing Rivers state, Ngutor was treated for a suspected stomach ulcer and received drugs.
From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2022
If Port Harcourt fell, he would lose the town he had come to love, the town in which he loved; he would lose a bit of himself.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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