Kudan is a

Local Government Area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

Kaduna State Kaduna State ( ha, Jihar Kaduna جىِهَر كَدُنا; ff, Leydi Kaduna, script=Latn, ; kcg, Sitet Kaduna) is a state in northern Nigeria. The state capital is its namesake, the city of Kaduna which happened to be the 8th largest city in ...

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

. Its headquarters are in the town of Hunkuyi. The Local Government Council is chaired by Shuaibu Jaja. There are 10 wards council in Kudan local government area. # Doka ward # Garu ward # Hunkuyi ward # Kurmin Wali North ward # Kurmin Wali South ward # Kudan ward # Likoro ward # Sabon Gari Hunkuyi ward # Taban Sani ward # Zabi ward # It has an area of 400 km and a population of 138,992 at the 2006 census. It has an area of 400 km and a population of 138,992 at the 2006 census. The

postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal a ...

of the area is 812.

Economic Activities

Economic engagement of kudan community include hunting, Farming, and blacksmithing.

Trade Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...

is an essential feature of the economy with the area hosting a number of markets where wide variety of commodities are bought and sold.

Granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

and

kaolin Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral ...

are the two major mineral resources found in kudan local government.

References

Local Government Areas in Kaduna State {{kaduna-geo-stub