Askira/Uba 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 ...
of
Borno State
Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon, its northern border ...
,
Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Askira.
It has an area of 2,362 km and a population of 138,091 at the 2006 census.
The
postal code of the area is 601.
One of the villages of Askira/Uba,
Lassa, was the origin of a new virus found in the blood of returning American missionaries, and first identified by a
virology research team in a laboratory at Yale University, who named it "
Lassa virus" after the location where it first appeared.
In July 2014, the villages of Huyim and Dille in Askira/Uba LGA were attacked by suspected
Boko Haram
Boko Haram, officially known as ''Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād'' ( ar, جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit=Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad), is an Islamic terrorist organization ...
gunmen, with nine and thirty-eight deaths respectively. The attackers came from the
Sambisa Forest. Displaced residents "need help from governments and spirited individuals."
References
Local Government Areas in Borno State
Populated places in Borno State
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