Amandugba

Amandugba (or Amanduba) is a town in the Isu Local Government Area in Imo State, Nigeria.[1]

Amandugba
Amandugba
Coordinates: 5°41′2″N 7°4′8″E
CountryNigeria
StateImo State
LGAIsu

The community is inhabited by Isu people, a subgroup of the Igbo people. In Amauzari tradition, the town is named after Ndugba, child of Mbama Onyeukwu.[2] As of September 2010, the traditional ruler of Amandugba was Eze Innocent Ikejiofor.[3]

The community has four primary schools and one secondary technical school.[4] Amandugba and neighboring Umundugba used to be one town.[5] Both communities have suffered from an unreliable water supply from streams and brooks that often dry up, and that are breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes and sources of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, guinea worm, tape worm, and night blindness. A recent project by Africa We Care, a charity, has started to develop a supply based on a bore-hole.[6]

References
  1. "Imo State". Nigerian Postal Service. Archived from the original on October 7, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  2. "HISTORY & ORIGIN OF AMAUZARI". Amauzari Progress Union (UK). Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  3. "GROUP IN THE DIASPORA CANVASSES SUPPORT FOR OHAKIM". Imo State. 6 Sep 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  4. "Education & Schools". Isu LGA. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  5. Egbe Ifie, ed. (2000). Africa, our times and culture, Volume 1, Part 2. Oputoru Books. p. 194. ISBN 978-35285-9-9.
  6. "The Water for Life Project". Africa We Care. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.


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