Konduga is a community in Borno State

Borno State

Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. Its capital is Maiduguri. The state was formed in 1976 from the split of the North-Eastern State...

, Nigeria

Nigeria

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 and the center of a Local Government Area

Local Government Area

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 of the same name about 25 km to the southeast of Maiduguri

Maiduguri

Maiduguri, also fondly called Yerwa by its locals, is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria. The city sits along the seasonal Ngadda River which disappears into the Firki swamps in the areas around Lake Chad...

, situated on the north bank of the Ngadda River

Ngadda River

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. The population of the Konduga Local Government Area is about 13,400.
It is the birthplace of Senator Kaka Mallam Yale

Kaka Mallam Yale

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The primary languages are Shuwa Arabic, Kanuri

Kanuri language

Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people, as of 1987, in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan...

 and Wandala

Wandala language

Wandala, also Mandara, Mura, or Malgwa, is an Afro-Asiatic language of Cameroon and Nigeria....

 / Malgwa.

As of 2006, most inhabitants were illiterate and engaged in subsistence farming, with earnings below US$20 per annum. Most people did not have access to potable water or electricity, and the roads are not passable in the rainy season.
Maternal mortality is high. A 2003 study identified the main obstacles to accessing the hospital for emergency obstetric care as lack of money and transportation difficulties.
Soil fertility in the area is declining.