Igueben Towns And Villages

Igueben is a Local Government Area in Edo State, Nigeria, roughly 30 kilometres east of Benin City. Its headquarters sits at Igueben town. The 2006 census counted 69,639 residents; no independently verified later projection was found.

Esan farmers work the area’s ten wards: Ekekhen/Idumuogo/Egbiki, Idigun/Idumedo, Afuda/Idumuoka, Uhe/Idumuogbo/Idumueke, Udo, Owu/Okuta/Eguare Ebelle, Okalo/Okpujie, Amahor/Ugun, Ewossa and Ekpon. Each town in the LGA keeps its own Eguare, the traditional palace quarter of its ruling Onogie.

The list below was checked name by name against the 2015 INEC polling-unit directory, the GeoNames gazetteer, and independent local sources on Amahor and Ebelle.

  1. Afuda
  2. Amahor
  3. Amahor Eguare
  4. Amahor Idumodin
  5. Amahor Idumogo
  6. Amahor Ukpeko
  7. Amahor Waterside
  8. Ebelle
  9. Egbiki
  10. Eguare-Ebelle
  11. Ekekhen
  12. Ekpon
  13. Ewossa
  14. Idinegbon
  15. Idumedo
  16. Idumowu
  17. Idumueke
  18. Idumuogbo
  19. Idumuogo
  20. Idumuoka
  21. Igueben
  22. Igueben Eguare
  23. Ijeduma
  24. Ikekogbe
  25. Ikpudu
  26. Obodeko
  27. Okalo
  28. Okpujie
  29. Okuta
  30. Ologhe
  31. Owa
  32. Udo
  33. Udoneria
  34. Ugun
  35. Ugun Eguare
  36. Uhe
  37. Ujielu