Amandugba

Amandugba
Amandugba is located in Nigeria
Amandugba
Amandugba
Coordinates: 5°41′2″N 7°4′8″E / 5.68389°N 7.06889°E / 5.68389; 7.06889
CountryNigeria
StateImo State
LGAIsu
National languageIgbo

Amandugba (or Amanduba) is a town in the Isu Local Government Area in Imo State, Nigeria.[1]

The community is inhabited by Isu people, a subgroup of the Igbo people.[citation needed] In Amauzari tradition, the town is named after Ndugba, child of Mbama Onyeukwu.[2] As of September 2010, the traditional ruler of Amandugba was Eze Innocent Ikejiofor.[3]

The community has four primary schools and one secondary technical school.[4] Amandugba and neighboring Umundugba used to be one town.[5] Both communities have suffered from an unreliable water supply from streams and brooks that often dry up, and that are breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes and sources of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, guinea worm, tape worm, and night blindness. A recent project by Africa We Care, a charity, has started to develop a supply based on a bore-hole.[6]

  1. ^ "Imo State". Nigerian Postal Service. Archived from the original on October 7, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  2. ^ "HISTORY & ORIGIN OF AMAUZARI". Amauzari Progress Union (UK). Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  3. ^ "GROUP IN THE DIASPORA CANVASSES SUPPORT FOR OHAKIM". Imo State. 6 Sep 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  4. ^ "Education & Schools". Isu LGA. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  5. ^ Egbe Ifie, ed. (2000). Africa, our times and culture, Volume 1, Part 2. Oputoru Books. p. 194. ISBN 978-35285-9-9.
  6. ^ "The Water for Life Project". Africa We Care. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.