🏠 Local Government Area • Ekiti State • Ekiti East
Emure Local Government Area
Ekiti State · South West Zone · Headquarters: Emure-Ekiti
Small LGA known for the Emure kingdom and cocoa farming. Borders Ondo State in eastern Ekiti.
Emure Local Government Area is located in Ekiti State, in the South West geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It falls within the Ekiti East senatorial district. The headquarters of Emure LGA is Emure-Ekiti.
The headquarters of Emure Local Government Area is Emure-Ekiti. This is where the council secretariat, chairman's office and main government offices are located. The postal code for Emure-Ekiti is 363001.
According to the 2006 National Population Census by the National Population Commission (NPC), Emure Local Government Area had a population of 58,000 people.
Emure Local Government Area was created in 1991 as part of the national local government reforms. Nigeria has had several rounds of LGA creation — 1976, 1991, and 1996 — which expanded the total from 301 to the current 774 LGAs.
Emure Local Government Area is in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Ekiti State is in the South West zone and has its capital at Ado-Ekiti. Ekiti State has 16 Local Government Areas in total.
Emure Local Government Area is in the Ekiti East senatorial district of Ekiti State. This district is represented by a senator in the Nigerian National Assembly. Each senatorial district in Nigeria comprises several LGAs and elects one senator for a four-year term.