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  Dikwa | |
| Coordinates: 12°1′26″N13°54′57″E / 12.02389°N 13.91583°E | |
| Country |  Nigeria |
| State | Borno State |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
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Dikwa is a town and a local government area in Borno State, Nigeria.
Dikwa | |
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LGA and town | |
| Dikwa | |
| Coordinates: 12°1′26″N13°54′57″E / 12.02389°N 13.91583°E | |
| Country | Nigeria |
| State | Borno State |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
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Dikwa is a town and a local government area in Borno State, Nigeria.
Dikwa used to be part of the kingdom of Borno before being captured by Rabih in 1893. The latter had the place fortified and Dikwa became the capital of his kingdom from 1893 to 1900. [1]
In 1900, the French defeated Rabih and captured Dikwa. The town was handed over to the Germans in 1902 because of a treaty signed in 1893 between the Germans and the British which stipulated that the town of Dikwa should become German. This treaty is at the origin of the Dikwa Emirate. [2]
Between 1902 and 1916, Dikwa was the capital of what the Europeans called German Borno. After the First World War until 1961, the town and the Dikwa Emirate were administered by the British under a League of Nations mandate and a United Nations Trusteeship agreement. [3] In 1942, Dikwa ceased to be the capital of the Dikwa Emirate. Bama became the capital of the Emirate which kept its name as Dikwa Emirate. [4]
In 1961, after a United Nations plebiscite, the town and the Dikwa Emirate became officially Nigerian. [5]
Dikwa is a Local government area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Dikwa, which is also the seat of the Dikwa Emirate.
With an annual rainfall range of 15 to 32 inches, the Bornu and Dikwa Emirates have a semiarid climate with a long dry season and a brief wet season. [6] [7] [8] [9]
It has an area of 1,774 km2 and had a population of 25,300 inhabitants in 2010 according to Africapolis. [10] The 2006 census gave an estimated number of 105,909 inhabitants but, as in the rest of Nigeria, these figures should be taken with caution. [11]
The postal code of the area is 611. [12]
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