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Onicha
Sign in to saveOnicha is a Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. It is made up of the following towns; Oshiri, Onicha-Igboeze, Abaomege, Ukawu, Isu and Isinkwo. The headquarters is located in the town of Isu. The area council derived its name from the town of Onicha-Igboeze.
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Onicha is a local government area of Nigeria, located in Ebonyi State on the continent of Africa. The headquarters of this administrative entity are situated in Onicha. The area covers 476 square kilometers and had a population of 236,609.
The primary language spoken, written, or signed in the region is Igbo. The area observes the Africa/Lagos timezone.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Onicha
- Settlement.settlement_type
- LGA
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ebonyi State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Capital
- Settlement.leader_title
- Local government chairman
- Settlement.leader_name
- Ogbofia Ikechukwu
- 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
- Settlement.postal_code
- 491
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- local government area of Nigeria
- Languages spoken
- Igbo
- Country
- Nigeria
- Located in
- Ebonyi State
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 236609
- Area
- 476
- Headquarters
- Onicha
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Climate and geography
- Economy
- References
Onicha is a Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. It is made up of the following towns; Oshiri, Onicha-Igboeze, Abaomege, Ukawu, Isu and Isinkwo. The headquarters is located in the town of Isu. The area council derived its name from the town of Onicha-Igboeze.
The local government is made up two subgroups of Igbo people; Ezza people (Ukawu, Abaomega and Isinkwo) and Ohaozara people (Oshiri, Isu and Onicha-Igboeze). It was created in 1991 from the Ohaozara Local Government while creating Abia state. It has an area of 476 km2 and has a population of 236,828 according to the 2006 census. The chairman is Hon. Ogbofia Ikechukwu The postal code of the area is 491. ==Climate and geography== The climate of Onicha is savanna, or tropical wet and dry. The district's yearly temperature is 28.58 °C and it is -0.88% lower than Nigeria's norms. There are 204.98 wet days and 201.58 millimeters of precipitation in Ndiagu-Onicha each year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Onicha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.