Ethiope West | |
|---|---|
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| Country |  Nigeria |
| State | Delta State |
| Headquarters | Oghara Town |
| Government | |
| • Local Government Chairman | Monday Odinigwe [1] |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
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Ethiope West is a Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Oghara Town.
It has an area of 536 km2 and a population of 203,592 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of the area is 331. [2]
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The city of Warri is an oil hub within South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House. Warri City is one of the major hubs of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. Warri, Udu, Okpe and Uvwie are the commercial capital of Delta State with a population of over 311,970 people in 2006. The city is the indigenous territory of Itsekiri, Urhobo and Ijaw people.
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UVWIE
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Oshimili South Local Government Area is one of the twenty-five Local Government Areas making up Delta State. It is situated in the Niger Delta Region/the South-South geo-political zone of Nigeria. It was part of the Asaba Division of the Southern Protectorate in Colonial Nigeria and later a part of the Western Region following the delineation of the country into Three Regions through the Richard's Constitution of 1946. It later became part of the Mid-Western Region in 1963, and Mid-Western State in 1967. It became part of Bendel State and was carved out of the old Asaba Division in 1976 as part of Oshimili Local Government. It became Oshimili South Local Government in 1996 after the creation of Delta State from the defunct Bendel State in 1991.
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