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In Nigeria’s North Central region, Nasarawa State is surrounded by the states of Taraba and Plateau to the east, Kaduna State to the north, Kogi and Benue to the south, and the Federal Capital Territory to the west. On October 1, 1996, the western portion of Plateau State was divided into a new state that bore the name of the former Nasarawa Emirate. The state is divided into thirteen local government areas, with Lafia serving as the state’s capital. Along the state’s western border with the FCT, the Karu Urban Area, an Abuja suburb, serves as the state’s major economic hub.
With an estimated population of roughly 2.5 million as of 2016, Nasarawa is the second-least populated and fifteenth-largest in terms of area of Nigeria’s 36 states. The state is primarily located within the tropical Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion. The River Benue, which forms a large portion of Nasarawa State’s southern borders, and the state’s remote northeast, which contains a small portion of the Jos Plateau, are both significant geographic features.
Nasarawa State is inhabited by various ethnic groups, including the Koro and Yeskwa in the far northwest; the Kofyar in the far northeast; the Eggon, Gwandara, Mada, Ninzo, and Nungu in the north; the Alago, Goemai, and Megili in the east; Eloyi (Ajiri/Afo) in the south; the Tiv in the southeast; the Idoma in southwest; and the Gade and Gbagyi in the west while the Hausa and Fulani live throughout the state. Nasarawa is also a spiritually diverse state, with 39% Christians and followers of traditional ethnic religions and around 61% Muslims living there.
Until the early 1800s, when the Fulani jihad annexed the region and subsumed it under the Sokoto Caliphate as the vassal states of Keffi, Lafia, and Nasarawa, the area that is now Nasarawa State was divided up into various states, some of which were tiny and village-based while others were parts of larger empires. British expeditions captured the region and added it to the Northern Nigeria Protectorate in the 1890s and 1900s. In 1914, the protectorate was absorbed into British Nigeria, and in 1960, it attained independence as Nigeria. Until 1967, when the Northern Region was divided and the area became a part of the Benue-Plateau State, the present-day Nasarawa State was originally a part of the post-independence Northern Region. What is now Nasarawa State was a part of the new Plateau State after Benue-Plateau was divided in 1976 until 1996, when western Plateau was separated to create the new Nasarawa State.
Agriculture dominates Nasarawa State’s economy, with the primary crops being sesame, soybeans, groundnuts, millet, maize, and yams. Services, particularly in metropolitan areas, and the raising of cattle, goats, and sheep for livestock are other important sectors. Throughout its history, the state has experienced several outbreaks of violence, most notably the persistent battle between farmers and herders over land rights. Despite the fighting, Nasarawa has many tertiary institutions and the nineteenth-highest Human Development Index in the nation.
List Of Towns and Villages In Nasarawa State: Agyaga Anchobaba Gwanje Gwanje – Gbuje – Gwadi – Aricha Ancho Nighaan Andaha Nunku Gudi Moroa Akwanga West Akwanga East Ningo / Bohar Makwangiji Madaki Jangaru Kanje / Abuni Ribi Azara Wuse Akiri Alagye Rukubi Agbashi Akpanaja Ungwan Sarki Dawaki Madauchi Ungwan Dan Galadima Aso / Kodape …
