Owan East

{{Short description|Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria}}

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Owan East is a Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. The headquarters is in the town of Afuze.{{Cite web |last=Oluwagbemi |first=Ayodele |date=2016-02-09 |title=Afuze: An Olympic Games Village for reptiles and rodents |url=https://punchng.com/afuze-an-olympic-games-village/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Punch Newspapers |language=en-US}} The Owan East Local Government Area comprises 69 towns/villages, made up of eight clans (Emai, Igue, Ake-Ievbu, Ihievbe, Ikao, Ivbi-Mion, Ive-Ada-Obi, Otuo and Uokha).{{Cite web|title=Ugbona {{!}} Nigeria Facts|url=http://nigeriafacts.net/ugbona|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628092757/http://nigeriafacts.net/ugbona|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 28, 2021|access-date=2021-06-28|website=nigeriafacts.net}}

Owan-East is bordered in the north by Akoko-Edo LGA, in the east by Etsako-West LGA, at the west is Ondo State, and at the southwest by Owan-West LGA, while in the South are Esan Central LGA and Uhunmwonde LGA.{{Cite web|date=2020-07-07|title=About Owan East - Afemai People|url=https://afemai.org.ng/about-owan-east/|access-date=2021-06-28|language=en-US}}

Education

This local government has various educational institutions such as kingdagating, nursery, primary, secondary both private and public, and Edo state college of Education, Afuze campus as an higher learning with the school of physical and health education and special needs education as campus three.

It has an area of 1,240 km{{sup|2}} and a population of 154,385 persons (81,847 males and 72,538 females) at the 2006 census.

Postal codes

The postal code of the area is 313. (Emai: 313101, Ihievbe: 313102, Ive-Ada-Obi: 313103, Uokha: 313104, Ivbi-Mion: 313105, Igue: 313106, Otuo: 313107, and Ikao: 313108){{cite web | title = Post Offices- with map of LGA | publisher = NIPOST | url = http://www.nipost.gov.ng/PostCode.aspx | access-date = 2009-10-20 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121126042849/http://www.nipost.gov.ng/postcode.aspx | archive-date = 2012-11-26 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.nigeriapostcodes.com/views/rural.php |title=nigeriapostcodes.com/views/rural.php |access-date = 2012-03-02}}

References

Category:Local Government Areas in Edo State