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Ohimini is a Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Idekpa-Okpikwu. Ohimini was created out of the present Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. The major district under the Ohimini Local Government is Onyagede, which shares a boundary with Kogi State, and it has the following villages: Amoke, Enumona, Ogodu, Awume, Ikpoke, Ogoli, Ogande, Ugofu, Ipolabakpa, Umonomi, Iyaya, Okpikwu, Agadagba, Oglewu, and Idekpa, the capital.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Ohimini
Settlement.settlement_type
LGA
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
State
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Benue State
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Local Government Headquarters
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Idekpa
Settlement.leader_title
Local Government Chairman and the Head of the Local Government Council
Settlement.leader_name
Adakole Abutu
Settlement.unit_pref
Imperial
Settlement.population_as_of
2006
Settlement.timezone
WAT
Settlement.utc_offset
+1
Settlement.mapframe
yes
Settlement.mapframe zoom
8
Settlement.mapframe wikidata
yes
Settlement.mapframe marker
village

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Wikidata facts

Country
Nigeria
Located in
Benue State
Population
70688
Sources (3)

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Historical background
  • Geographical Location
  • Population
  • Political Structure
  • Leadership of the Local Government Administration Since Inception
  • Religion
  • Occupation
  • Natural resources
  • Prospects for investment
  • Climate
  • References

Ohimini is a Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Idekpa-Okpikwu. Ohimini was created out of the present Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. The major district under the Ohimini Local Government is Onyagede, which shares a boundary with Kogi State, and it has the following villages: Amoke, Enumona, Ogodu, Awume, Ikpoke, Ogoli, Ogande, Ugofu, Ipolabakpa, Umonomi, Iyaya, Okpikwu, Agadagba, Oglewu, and Idekpa, the capital.

It has an area of 632 km2 and a population of 71,482 at the 2006 census.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ohimini” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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