Port Harcourt Cemetery is a city-owned and operated public cemetery located along Aggrey Road in the Old Township district of

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, the

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capital. It is the oldest cemetery still in use in the city and is notable as the burial site of activist

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and his associates the

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. It also contains one commonwealth burial of soldiers of

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Interments

(1941–1995), writer and activist * Mike Lloyd Toku (1993–2012) * Stephen Edward Murray-Bruce (1939–2013)

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* {{Port Harcourt Cemeteries in Port Harcourt Landmarks in Port Harcourt

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