🏠 Local Government Area • Katsina State • Katsina West
Kankara Local Government Area
Katsina State · North West Zone · Headquarters: Kankara
Known for the 2020 mass schoolboys kidnapping. Agricultural LGA with cattle and groundnuts.
Kankara Local Government Area is located in Katsina State, in the North West geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It falls within the Katsina West senatorial district. The headquarters of Kankara LGA is Kankara.
The headquarters of Kankara Local Government Area is Kankara. This is where the council secretariat, chairman's office and main government offices are located. The postal code for Kankara is 822301.
According to the 2006 National Population Census by the National Population Commission (NPC), Kankara Local Government Area had a population of 256,000 people.
Kankara Local Government Area was created in 1976 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.
Kankara Local Government Area is in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina State is in the North West zone and has its capital at Katsina. Katsina State has 34 Local Government Areas in total.
Kankara Local Government Area is in the Katsina West senatorial district of Katsina 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.