When Onyani Banaam was born on 18 September 1920, in Rivers, Nigeria, her father, Banaam Unu, was 219 and her mother, Ibeni Arugu, was 101. She married Lawson Okokoriko about 1960, in Rivers, Nigeria. She died on 8 January 1985, in her hometown, at the age of 64, and was buried in Rivers, Nigeria.
Filipino: ornamental name from Tagalog banaag ‘glimmer, soft rays, faint light’.
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