Ezza North

Ezza North
LGA
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Country Nigeria
StateEbonyi State
Government
 • Member of House of RepresentativesAnayo Edwin Nwonu
Time zoneUTC+1 (WAT)
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Ezza North is a local government area in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is at Ebiaji town. It has an area of 305 km2 and a population of 145,619 at the 2006 census.

It is a predominantly Igbo town inhabited by the Ezza and the Orring people of Idzem (Amuda) and Okpolo (Okpomoro) extraction.[1]

The postal code of the area is 482.[2]

History

Ezza North was created in 1996 alongside other LGAs in the then new Ebonyi State. It used to be part of old Ezza Local Government Area before its creation.

  • List of Districts of Ezza North: "Postal ZIP code of Ezza North, Nigeria". GeoPostCodes Database. Retrieved 2014-05-22.

References

  1. ^ Olson, James Stuart (1996). The peoples of Africa : an ethnohistorical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-27918-7. OCLC 32968738.
  2. ^ "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2009-10-20.



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