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Warri North
Country Nigeria
StateDelta State
HeadquartersKoko
Government
 • Local Government Chairman and the Head of the Local Government CouncilHon. Smart Asekutu
Time zoneUTC+1 (WAT)
Map

Warri North is a Local Government AreaofDelta State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Koko. It has an area of 1,841 km2 and a population of 137,300 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 332.[1]

The British Map of Eastern Nigeria, 1958

Warri North LGA has its headquarters at Koko, a cosmopolitan town that houses a sea port. Conspicuous in the town is the ancient house of Nana Olomu of Itsekiri. The LGA is predominantly riverine and is inhabited by the Itsekiris people, and other migrants like the Ijaw people that migrated to the local government to gain from its economic prosperity.[2] The major occupations of the people are fishing, carving of canoes, net weaving, hunting, clothes dyeing, trading and farming. It is also the location of a lovely tourist attraction, the floating market at Ogheye. The Local government is richly blessed with Crude oil and houses the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, Chevron amongst others.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  • ^ https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/nigeria.htm
  • ^ "Warri-north-local-government | local-government | delta-articles | delta". Archived from the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
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