Ekpoma
Sign in to saveEkpoma is a town in Edo State, Nigeria. It is the administrative headquarters of the Esan West Local Government Area. Ekpoma lies on the geographical coordinate of latitude . The town has an official Post Office, and it is home to the Ambrose Alli University. Currently Ekpoma town is developing with major infrastructures, hospitals, schools, modern eateries and roads. The town is also secured.
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Place details
- Locality
- Ekpoma
- Region
- Edo
- Country
- Nigeria
- Population
- 59,618
- Timezone
- Africa/Lagos
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Ekpoma
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ekpoma.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nigeria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Nigeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Nigeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Edo
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.area_code
- 055
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
- Settlement.blank_info
- Aw
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Nigeria
- Located in
- Edo State
- Official language
- English language
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Legislature
- Esan West
- Image
- Ekpoma Secretariat.jpg
- Dialing code
- 055
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- postal code
- 310101
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Demographics
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Ekpoma is a town in Edo State, Nigeria. It is the administrative headquarters of the Esan West Local Government Area. Ekpoma lies on the geographical coordinate of latitude . The town has an official Post Office, and it is home to the Ambrose Alli University. Currently Ekpoma town is developing with major infrastructures, hospitals, schools, modern eateries and roads. The town is also secured.
== Population == It has a population of over 290,000 people. It has an adult male population of over 90,000 and adult female population of over 80,000. It is politically divided into 10 wards and occupies a land mass of . Ekpoma along with Uromi are the prime towns of the Esan people. It has become a congregating center for years, the Esan people from other towns have consistently taken residence in Ekpoma and Uromi. Ambrose Alli University is located in Ekpoma.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ekpoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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