Cross River State, Nigeria · Africa
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Obubra is a town located in Cross River State, Nigeria. With a population of 12,885, it is an important destination in Africa.
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Obubra is a town and Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State, Nigeria. The Ibrahim Babangida College of Agriculture is located in Obubra.
The National Youth Service Corps, Cross River State Orientation Camp is situated in Obubra town.
The word Obubra is derived from 'Ubibira or Ubira', the name of ObubraRead more
main village at the bank of the Cross river. Obubra however, was used to represent an administrative unit under the British colonial empire in the late 19th century. The exact history of the signed treaties of Community heads and the representatives of the British empire are in antiquity.
It covered areas bounded by Abakaliki and Ikom to the North, and Afikpo and Calabar to the South. This meant that its jurisdiction extended from parts of present-day Biase and Akamkpa local government areas through Abi, Yakurr and Etung to parts of Ikom and Ogoja local government areas.
Presently Obubra Local Government Area has eleven Council wards of Ababene, Ofat, Ofodua, Ovonum, Apiapum, Iyamoyong, Ochon, Obubra Urban, Ofumbongha/Yala, Osopong I and Osopong II.
Most of the communities emerged as settlements of intercommunal wars. The lines of friction which had existed from ancestral origin are heated up and the people divided by their political elites who disagree to agree on a common political leadership or a channel for socioeconomic development of Obubra Urban, wherein lies the headquarters, and then spread to all communities. Obubra has 98 villages some of which include; Obubra Village, Ogada, Owakande, Imabana Itamtet, Apiapum, Yala, Iyamoyong, Ohana, Ochon, Isabang, Ovunom, Ofodua, Ofat, Ababene, Oderegha, Okorogbana, Onyedama, Ebo, and Iko, Ogurude, Ofonmana, Ogurokpon, Okimbongha, Ofonagama, Omene, Ofonamma, Ofonekom, Appiapumtet, Idoru 1 and 2, Ijutum, Eja, Ijagha Orangha, Aragharagha, Ogamina, the list continuous.
It has an area of 1,115 km2 and a population of 172,444 at the 2006 census. St. Francis Xavier Parish, which today has given birth to five (5) other parishes, was originally founded in 1965. However, the first Holy Mass was celebrated in 1961, as missionaries visited to source for land for a Secondary school (St Brendan's) later located at Iyamoyong, about 15 kilometers away.
The postal code of the area is 551.
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Obubra is located in Cross River State, Nigeria, Africa. The coordinates are 6.0767 latitude, 8.3324 longitude.
Obubra has a population of approximately 12,885 people, making it a town in Nigeria.
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