Sanga, Nigeria

Sanga is a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gwantu.

It has an area of 781 km² and had a population of 149,333 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 801.^[1]

Government

Sanga, being a local government in southern part of Kaduna state, shares boundary with Akwanga, in Nasarawa state. MADA, being one of the tribes widely spoken in Akwanga, Kokona, Keffi, Karu, Sanga and Jema's Local government areas of Nasarawa and Kaduna states, is not listed as a tribe spoken in Sanga local government area of Kaduna state is an omission. Some of this MADA communities have settled in Sanga for more than two centuries, there are communities in Sanga that are solely MADA with the full complement of primary and secondary schools build by the government besides these tribes listed as origin in Sanga have historical affiliations to MADA, e.g. Nizam Numana, Abu, Tari etc.

2014 attacks

On 27 June, 2014:

In Sanga LGA of Kaduna State, 32 people were killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia ... Amber, a village of about 5,000 people, was ransacked ... In Paa, a village close to Gwantu, the town was attacked ... Ten people were killed. The town is also burnt down ... All Ninzom villages, including Gwantu, the LGA, headquarters of Sanga, were deserted as people ran to police stations, primary and secondary schools in nearby towns and into neighbouring states ... The tense situation in the area was making distribution of relief materials to about 50,000 displaced persons almost impossible."^[2]

References

Kaduna State
State capital: Kaduna
LGAs	Birnin Gwari Chikun Giwa Igabi Ikara Jaba Jema'a Kachia Kaduna North Kaduna South Kagarko Kajuru Kaura Kauru Kubau Kudan Lere Makarfi Sabon Gari Sanga Soba Zangon Kataf Zaria