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Yala is a Local Government Area in Cross River State, Nigeria. [1] Its headquarters is in the town of Okpoma in the east of the area at 6°35′35″N 8°38′01″E / 6.59306°N 8.63361°E / 6.59306; 8.
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Okpoma is the headquarters of Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. It has many communities including Olachor, Oba, Abachor, Itega Okpame, Okpudu, Itega Okpudu, Idiku, Ijama, Adeni, Iboko and many more. It has many salt ponds which are of historical importance to the Yala people.
Okuku is a town in Cross River State, Nigeria.It is one of the major towns in Yala Local Government Area. There is a strategic grain silo in Okuku, [1] and the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences of the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH Okuku campus) is also located there. [2]
The Yala is a subgroup of the Idoma nation, part of the Yala LGA's subgroups are the Igede-speaking people believed to have migrated from the Oju part of Benue State, who migrated from Ora, in Edo North. [citation needed] In Cross River North, Bekwarra is one of the most widely spoken languages. [26] It is understood by other tribes in the ...
The Ukelle people (Ba'kelle) make up roughly half of the population of the Yala Local Government Area in Cross River State, Nigeria. [1] The language of the Ukelle people is Kukelle belonging to the Kukelle-Korring language family.
Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs), each administered by a local government council [1] consisting of a chairman, who is the chief executive, and other elected members, who are referred to as councillors. Each LGA is further subdivided into a minimum of ten and a maximum of twenty wards.
Kuje prison is one of the largest prisons in Abuja, and in the months leading up to the attack, over 5,000 prisoners had been released in prison breaks orchestrated by various militant groups. [1]