Eleme is a local government area in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is part of the Port Harcourt metropolitan city.
Eleme has its headquarters in the town of Ogale. It covers an area of 138 km2 and at the 2006 Census had a population of 190,884. The Eleme people are Eleme's main indigenous ethnic group. Eleme LGA has two districts- Nchia and Odido and both administered under the Crown of the Oneh Eh Eleme (King Of Eleme.)
As explained in a book edited by Imelda Icheji Lawrence Udoh and others, the Eleme language, of the Cross-River branch of the larger Niger-Congo language family,Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2006) "Appendix: Classification of Languages Used in Database for Study" Auxiliary verb constructions Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, page 400, is the main spoken language.Udoh, Imelda Icheji Lawrence (editor) (2003) The languages of the South-South zone of Nigeria: a geo-political profile Concept Publications, Lagos, Nigeria, pages 85, 87,
In 2005 Eleme had two of Nigeria's four petroleum refineries.Udogu, Emmanuel Ike (2005) Nigeria in the twenty-first century: strategies for political stability and peaceful coexistence Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, page 72,
Climate/Geography Eleme LGA is made up of numerous rivers and tributaries and has a total size of 138 square kilometres or 53 square miles. The local government region experiences of precipitation annually, with an average temperature of 25 degrees Celsius or 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
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