4-403: Ìjùmú is a Local Government Area in Kogi State , Nigeria . Its headquarters are in the town of Iyara . Other towns in the local government include Ayetoro Gbede , Iyah-Gbede , Ayegunle Gbede , Araromi Gbede, Ayere, Ayeh Gbede, Okoro Gbede, Odokoro Gbede, Ekinrin-Adde , Egbeda Egga, Iyamoye, Ogidi , Ikoyi, Otungba, Oton-Ade, Origa, and others. The people of Ìjùmú speak the Okun dialect of
8-587: A local government council consisting of a chairman, who is the chief executive, and other elected members, who are referred to as councillors. Each LGA is further subdivided into a minimum of ten and a maximum of twenty wards. A ward is administered by a councillor, who reports directly to the LGA chairman. The councillors fall under the legislative arm of the Local Government , the third tier of government in Nigeria, below
12-540: The Yoruba language . The main occupation is farming among men, while women are engaged in trade. Education is the major industry in Ìjùmú. It has an area of 1,306 km and a population of 119,929 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 261. The current chairman of the local government is Hon. Taufiq Isa. The current National President of the Ijumu Development Union (IDU) is Mr Kayode Olorunmaiye. He
16-662: Was elected during the IDU Annual Congress at Iyara in December 2020 for a term of two years, taking over from the previous National President, Mr Taiye Atibioke Ìjùmú is highly linguistically diverse. Some of the local Volta–Niger languages spoken in Ijumu LGA are: This Kogi State , Nigeria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Local Government Areas of Nigeria Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs), each administered by
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