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:

  1. Afaka
  2. Amana
  3. Audi Gari
  4. Bargu
  5. Bikaratu
  6. Birnin Yero
  7. Dunki
  8. Dutsen Mai
  9. Farakwai
  10. Gadan Gayan
  11. Gargai
  12. Girku
  13. Gwaraji
  14. Ifira
  15. Igabi
  16. Jaji
  17. Kaban
  18. Kabuwa
  19. Kangimi
  20. Kashirmu
  21. Kerawa
  22. Kudandan
  23. Kurmin Kaduna
  24. Kwarau
  25. Kwate
  26. Labar
  27. Mangi
  28. Maraban Jos
  29. Mashi Gwari
  30. Nagwari
  31. Panshanu
  32. Rigachikun
  33. Rigasa
  34. Rihogi
  35. Rikoka
  36. Riyawa
  37. Rubu
  38. Sabon Birnin Daji
  39. Tami
  40. Tudun Wada Rigachikun
  41. Turunku
  42. Wusono
  43. Yalwa
  44. Zangon Aya