Warri North

Warri North
LGA
Country	Nigeria
State	Delta State
Headquarters	Koko
Government
• Local Government Chairman and the Head of the Local Government Council	Hon. Festus Ashima
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)

Warri North is a Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Koko. It has an area of 1,841 km^2 and a population of 137,300 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 332.[1]

The British Map of Eastern Nigeria, 1958

Warri North LGA has its headquarters at Koko, a cosmopolitan town that houses a sea port. Conspicuous in the town is the ancient house of Nana Olomu of Itsekiri. The LGA is predominantly riverine and is inhabited by the Itsekiri people. [2] The major occupations of the people are fishing, carving of canoes, net weaving, hunting, clothes dyeing, trading and farming. It is also the location of a lovely tourist attraction, the floating market at Ogheye. The Local government is richly blessed with Crude oil and houses the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, Chevron amongst others.[3]

References

1. "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
2. "Nigeria - Brief History". www.britishempire.co.uk.
3. "Warri-north-local-government | local-government | delta-articles | delta". Archived from the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2016-06-08.

See also

• Warri