Mopa is a town in the

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 ...

n state of

Kogi Kogi State is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria, bordered to the west by the states of Ekiti and Kwara, to the north by the Federal Capital Territory, to the northeast by Nasarawa State, to the northwest by Niger State, to the s ...

. Mopa means ("imo papo" in Yoruba), which implies people with same ideology. It is the headquarters of the

Mopa-Muro Mopa-Muro is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Mopa on the A123 highway. It has an area of and a population of 44,037 at the 2006 census. The postal code A postal code (also known locall ...

Local Government Area of the state. Mopa is 95% Christian dominated, over 4.5% traditional believers, and the remaining fragment Muslims who are 99% outsiders living in Mopa. Local industries include

Mopa Breweries Mopa Breweries, Ltd. is a Nigerian brewery founded in 1980 by Chief J. Adewale Bello in Kogi State, Nigeria. The brewery is based in the town of Mopa in the Mopa-Muro Local Government Area. In 2005, the Canadian company Alexus-NextGen bought a con ...

, Boja Industries, BD Farms, and two marble quarries. Mopa has a state-run Government Technical College, and several other colleges that were established and managed by the missionaries in conjunction with the Mopa community such as Ecwa Secondary School Mopa and Baptist Girl High School Mopa. Mopa people speak their indigenous Yagba language, which is dialect of the Yoruba language. They are people with strong cultural inclinations. They are organised into clans, including, the Iya Ode, Aribo, Omoe Age, Anunmade, Annumote, Iya Oto, Iya Mogbe, Omolokun, Arupe Dena, Iya Meleda, Momo-Hopa, Iya-Lojo, Iya Lere, and Iya Bgadi.

Minerals

Mopa has deposits of talc and mica.

History

Mopa is bound to the north-east by a hill. History has it that Mopa people used to live on the northern side of the hill but later moved to the southern side so the hill could protect them from attacks by rival settlements to the north.

Notable people

* Sunday Awoniyi, a Northern Nigerian Yoruba politician and tribal aristocrat as the Aro of Mopa in Kogi State. Sunday Awoniyi was a founder of the

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. *

Seth Sunday Ajayi Seth Sunday Ajayi (born 16th May, 1943) is a Nigerian scientist, scholar and the first African Professor of Wildlife Ecology. Early life and education Ajayi was born on 16 May ,1944 in Mopa, Kogi State. He attended the Sudan Interior Mission D ...

, a Nigerian professor and scholar in wildlife conservation and environmental protection. First Professor in Wildlife and Fisheries in West Africa.

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Populated places in Kogi State Populated places with year of establishment missing {{Kogi-geo-stub