Sanga, Nigeria

Sanga is a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Gbantu (called Gwantu by the Hausa).

Sanga

Igbunbu
LGA
CountryNigeria
StateKaduna State
Population
 (2006)
 • Total149,333
Time zoneUTC+1 (WAT)

It has an area of 781 km² and had a population of 149,333 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 801.[1]

People

The people of Sanga Local Government Area include the Ninzam, Numana, Ninte, Mada (Mœda), Nungu and others of related origin, and historic affiliations.

Languages

Sanga, being a Local Government Area in southern part of Kaduna state, shares boundaries with Akwanga, in Nassarawa state and Riyom, in Plateau State.

Ninzam[2] is a major language in the area, spoken both in Sanga and neighbouring LGAs in Nassarawa state. Mada (Mœda), being one of the languages widely spoken in Akwanga, Kokona, Keffi and Karu Local Government Areas of Nassarawa state and Sanga and Jema'a Local Government Areas of Kaduna state of Nigeria. Some of these Mada communities have settled in Sanga for more than two centuries, there are communities in Sanga that are solely Mada-speaking.[3]

Ayu and Ahwai are also spoken in Sanga LGA.

2014 attacks

On 27 June, 2014:

In Sanga LGA of Kaduna State, 32 people were killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia ... Amber, a village of about 5,000 people, was ransacked ... In Paa, a village close to Gwantu, the town was attacked ... Ten people were killed. The town is also burnt down ... All Ninzom villages, including Gwantu, the LGA, headquarters of Sanga, were deserted as people ran to police stations, primary and secondary schools in nearby towns and into neighbouring states ... The tense situation in the area was making distribution of relief materials to about 50,000 displaced persons almost impossible."[4]

References
  1. "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  2. "Ninzo". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
  3. "Herders against Farmers: Nigeria's Expanding Deadly Conflict". Crisis Group. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. Midat Joseph; Obed Minchakpu; Andrew Ojih (2014-06-29). "Nigeria: 52 Killed in Kaduna, Bauchi, Taraba Attacks". Leadership (Abuja) - allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2014-06-30.

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