Igabi Towns And Villages
Igabi is a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, Nigeria, on the Kaduna-Zaria and Kaduna-Jos corridors just north of Kaduna city. Its headquarters sits at Turunku. The area covers roughly 3,222 square kilometres.
The 2006 census counted 430,753 residents. A 2022 projection put the figure near 636,400. Igabi holds twelve wards: Turunku, Zangon Aya, Gwaraji, Birnin Yero, Igabi, Rigachikun, Afaka, Sabon Birnin Daji, Kerawa, Kwarau, Gadan Gayan and Rigasa.
Rigasa and Rigachikun are Igabi’s most populous wards, both dense with Kaduna commuter housing. Jaji, in Birnin Yero ward, hosts the Nigerian Army’s training depot. The Kaduna-Jos highway crosses through Rigasa at the Maraban Jos junction. Igabi borders Kaduna North and Kaduna South to the south, Zaria to the east, Giwa to the north, and Chikun and Birnin Gwari to the west.
The list below was checked name by name against 2015 INEC ward and polling-unit records, and the GeoNames and GRID3 settlement gazetteers:
- Afaka
- Amana
- Audi Gari
- Bargu
- Bikaratu
- Birnin Yero
- Dunki
- Dutsen Mai
- Farakwai
- Gadan Gayan
- Gargai
- Girku
- Gwaraji
- Ifira
- Igabi
- Jaji
- Kaban
- Kabuwa
- Kangimi
- Kashirmu
- Kerawa
- Kudandan
- Kurmin Kaduna
- Kwarau
- Kwate
- Labar
- Mangi
- Maraban Jos
- Mashi Gwari
- Nagwari
- Panshanu
- Rigachikun
- Rigasa
- Rihogi
- Rikoka
- Riyawa
- Rubu
- Sabon Birnin Daji
- Tami
- Tudun Wada Rigachikun
- Turunku
- Wusono
- Yalwa
- Zangon Aya
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