Okuku is a town in
Cross River State
Cross River State is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Named for the Cross River, the state was formed from the eastern part of the Eastern Region on 27 May 1967. The state has its capital as Calabar and is bordered to ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
. It is one of the major towns in
Yala Local Government Area. There is a
strategic grain silo in Okuku,
and the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences of the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH Okuku campus) is also located there.
Both were commissioned by former deputy governor Chief Dr. Matthias Oko Offoboche between 1979 and 1983.
See also
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Cross River State
Cross River State is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Named for the Cross River, the state was formed from the eastern part of the Eastern Region on 27 May 1967. The state has its capital as Calabar and is bordered to ...
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Yala, Nigeria
Yala is a Local Government Area in Cross River State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Okpoma in the east of the area at .
It has an area of 1,739 km2 and a population of 210,843 at the 2006 census. This makes Yala the second mo ...
References
External links
Cross River State of Nigeria websiteMaplandia.com - google maps world gazetteer
Populated places in Cross River State
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