Damboa Towns And Villages
Damboa is a Local Government Area in southern Borno State, Nigeria, about 87 kilometres south of Maiduguri by road. Its headquarters sits at Damboa town. The LGA covers roughly 6,219 square kilometres and holds ten wards: Ajign (A), Ajign (B), Azur/Multe/Forfor, Bego/Yerwa/Ngurna, Damboa, Gumsuri/Misakurbudu, Kafa/Mafi, Mulgwai/Kopchi, Nguda/Wuyaram and Wawa/Korede.
The 2006 census counted 233,200 residents. A 2022 projection puts the figure near 341,700, though Borno’s insurgency-era displacement makes any single-year count for this area approximate. Marghi farmers were Damboa’s original settlers; Kanuri traders later moved in through the calabash-growing trade and settled among them. The area falls under the Damboa Emirate Council, carved from the old Borno Emirate.
The list below was checked name by name against 2015 INEC ward and polling-unit records, the GRID3 settlement gazetteer, and the GeoNames and OpenStreetMap databases:
- Abantagari
- Abduri
- Abodari
- Abulam
- Adama
- Adika
- Ajari
- Ajigin Bulabulin
- Ajigin Mairi
- Ajiri
- Allagarno
- Aloura
- Anakwari
- Asamari
- Auma
- Azur
- Ba’le
- Bego
- Budumiri
- Bukar-Kwareri
- Bukarti
- Bula Njimbam
- Bulasamtari
- Bulbul
- Burum
- Chiralia
- Dala
- Dalame
- Damboa
- Dawaluwa
- Dufa
- Dusu
- Dusula
- Forfor
- Galmaska
- Garjan
- Gazama
- Gazama Buri
- Golgi
- Gombori
- Goniri
- Gonuri
- Gorgore
- Gorgube
- Gugub
- Gumsuri
- Gwagwari
- Gwange
- Hausari
- Izzige
- Jalomiri
- Jemyeri
- Kachalla Burari
- Kafa
- Kalla
- Kalusari
- Kamari
- Kangarwa
- Karawua
- Karede Lawanti
- Kassachia
- Kauji
- Kauwaram
- Kaya
- Kinzagiraji
- Kodomiri
- Koljiri
- Kopchi
- Kopje
- Korede
- Kuboa
- Kuka Kowa
- Kulari Lawanti
- Kunadur
- Litawa
- Low Cost
- Luwa
- Mafi
- Maisaimari
- Maisaimari Birin
- Malaharam
- Malemiri
- Mallam-Maitari
- Mallamri
- Malumti
- Mangusum
- Matangale
- Misakurbudu
- Moutu
- Mufurundi
- Mugula
- Mulgwai
- Multe
- Multe Lawanti
- Mungule
- Ndoksa
- Ngaburari
- Ngarannam
- Ngirna
- Ngirna Lawanti
- Ngulefi
- Ngwalimiri
- Njaba
- Nzuda
- Nzuda Mairi
- Sabon Gari
- Sabon Gari Kauji
- Sagarwe
- Sendowa
- Shawa
- Shettima Abogu
- Shettimari
- Shiwari Kura
- Shuwari
- Sokotoko
- Talagala
- Tsondiya
- Tusuwa
- Umarari
- Wajiroko
- Wawa
- Wawa Lawanti
- Wovi
- Wuyaram
- Yadimari
- Yarasadari
- Yarwa
- Yazza
- Yerwa
- Zarameri
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