New Karu is the headquarters of

Karu Karu may refer to: ; Places * Karu, Estonia * Karu LGA, Nigeria ** Karu Urban Area * Karu Nadu, South West India * Karu, Ladakh, North India ; Languages * Karu language ; People * Erkki Karu (1887–1935), Finnish film director, screenwriter and ...

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 ...

, Nasarawa State. It is one of the largest towns that make up the greater Karu urban centre in Nasarawa state which is a

conurbation A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ca ...

consisting of towns and villages along the

Keffi Keffi is a town in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Keffi. Keffi is 50 kilometers from Abuja. Nasarawa State university is located in Keffi sitting along Keffi-Akwanga express way. It has an area of 138 km and a ...

Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

expressway making up the Nyanya- Masaka urban centre. The major towns that make up this urban area are; *

Mararaba Mararaba is a town in Nasarawa State, central Nigeria. It is a district of Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State and is among the towns that make up the Karu urban area, a conurbation of towns stretching to Nigeria's Federal Capital Territor ...

, * Ado, * New Nyanya, * Masaka, *New Karu and Kurunduma and villages that grew up as a result of the expansion of administrative and economic activities of Abuja into neighbouring towns coupled with the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Abuja by the

Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria) The Federal Capital Territory, commonly known as the FCT, is a federal territory in central Nigeria. Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, is located in this territory. The FCT was formed in 1976 from parts of the states of old Kaduna State, K ...

(F C T) administration. ''Voices'', a

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radio

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, is recorded here. Queen Elizabeth of England visited the actors in New Karu in 2003. New Karu is home to the Government Science Secondary School, which had some 580 students as of 2006.School Day 24: About Nigeria-UK link-up
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