Buguma

{{Short description|Town in Rivers State, Nigeria}}

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Buguma City is a larger town in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is the headquarters of the Asari-Toru Local Government Area and base of the Kalabari Kingdom, a Nigerian traditional state.

The town has an official post office and a big set of commercial fish ponds set up by the state government{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}. The current mayor, popularly addressed as chairman, of the LGA, which Buguma City is the headquarters, is Hon. Engr. Sule Amachree Ph.D {{cite web|title=Post Offices- with map of LGA |publisher=NIPOST |url=http://www.nipost.gov.ng/PostCode.aspx |accessdate=2009-10-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007011423/http://www.nipost.gov.ng/PostCode.aspx |archivedate=2009-10-07 }}

It is also home to the great King Amachree of the Kalabari kingdom.{{cite web | title = King of Buguma and Kalabari nation | publisher = Kalabari Nation | url = http://www.amachree.com | accessdate = 2012-01-26 }}

In 1983, Buguma was designated a city by the Government of Melford Okilo and that status subsists to date.The Official Gazette of Rivers State of Nigeria No. 16, published in Port Harcourt on the 25th of August 1983 referred to “Buguma City Council”; the only other City Council after Port Harcourt City Council.