🏠 Local Government Area • Kano State • Kano South
Sumaila Local Government Area
Kano State · North West Zone · Headquarters: Sumaila
Known for cotton, groundnuts and the Sumaila emirate. Important commercial centre in southern Kano.
Sumaila Local Government Area is located in Kano State, in the North West geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It falls within the Kano South senatorial district. The headquarters of Sumaila LGA is Sumaila.
The headquarters of Sumaila Local Government Area is Sumaila. This is where the council secretariat, chairman's office and main government offices are located. The postal code for Sumaila is 704101.
According to the 2006 National Population Census by the National Population Commission (NPC), Sumaila Local Government Area had a population of 230,000 people.
Sumaila 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.
Sumaila Local Government Area is in Kano State, Nigeria. Kano State is in the North West zone and has its capital at Kano. Kano State has 43 Local Government Areas in total.
Sumaila Local Government Area is in the Kano South senatorial district of Kano 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.