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According to the Government of Rivers State of Nigeria, edict no 2 of 1989, the Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori now Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori was established on the 28th day of March 1989. The polytechnic is located at Bori the traditional headquarters of the Ogoni people.
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Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic is a technological based institution by design with various Technical and management courses. However, it was planned for development of necessary skills and invention of advance machinery for production and economic development of the state. The Feature of creativity and advancement is woven in the spirit of scientific inquiry, Inventions, innovation and relating them to processes of production.
Although Varied socio-cultural factors may combine to determine when a society (or institution) makes a technological break-through, there is abundant historical evidence that youths are veritable human agents by which the spirit of intellectual creativity, technological inventories and capacity for self sustaining economic growth are brought alive, regenerated and invoked in a society. Our youths therefore must be exposed to the pattern of education enriched by practical utility of mind and hand.
The polytechnic is located at Bori the traditional headquarters of the Ogoni people. Bori has a total land mass of about 12 hectres with a total heterogeneous population of about 292,942 persons from the state, outside the state and even outside the country. It is about 50 kilometers from Port Harcourt the state capital, 20 kilometres from Eleme where the Refinery and the Petrochemical Industry are located.
It takes about 45 minutes from Bori through the Boue water front to locate the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) plant at Bonny by speed boat. Bori is a gate-way town being the last urban centre as you leave the state to Akwa Ibom and Cross River States and the first urban centre as you come into the state from Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers States.
The population of the school community is made up of staff and students. The staff population is about nine hundred and seventy eighty (978) persons, while the student present population is about nine thousand and eighty four (9084) persons.
The population is expected to grow with a growth rate of 1.7% in the next ten years to about ten thousand seven hundred and fifty one (10,751) persons.
However, the projected population will form the basis for the provision of facilities especially student accommodation.
The sites in this work include Bori campus comprising Engineering Campus and Management Campus and the Kira Campus.
The Bori campus () lies between easting 319090.000mE and 319490.000mE and northing 515820.000mN and 516420.000mN located at Poly Road, P.M.B. 20, Bori, Khana Local Government Area, Rivers State.
Kira campus lies between easting 306600.000mE and 307500.000mE and northing 521500.000mN and 522000.000mN located at Kira, Tai Local Government Area, Rivers State.
