Orumba North is a Local Government Area in Anambra State, East-central Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

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Towns

The 16 major towns that make up the local government are as follows;

• Awgbu,
• Omogho,
• Ndiokpalaeze,
• Ndiokolo,
• Amaetiti,
• Ndiokpalaeke,
• Okoh,
• Nanka
  Nanka
  Nanka , is an Igbo speaking town in south eastern Nigeria. It is in the Orumba North Local Government area of Anambra State. Its geographic coordinates are 6" 03' 00 North, 7" 05' 00 East.....
  
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• Ndiukwuenu,
• Awa,
• Ndikelionwu,
• Ajalli
  Ajalli
  Ajalli , is an Igbo speaking town in south eastern Nigeria. It is the headquarter of Orumba North local government area of Anambra State. Its geographic coordinates are 6" 02' 46 North, 7" 12' 36 East....
  
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• Ufuma
  Ufuma
  Ufumaland is one of the 16 major towns that make up the geo-political area called Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra state, Nigeria...
  
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• Amaokpala,
• Ndiowu, and
• Okpeze.

It is a region with markedly fertile land for agriculture with prominent products around rice, yam, cassava , and palm oil. Most of the population are subsistence farmers and traders. There is also a large student community as a result of the presence of a Federal Polytechnic located at Okoh.

Natives

Orumba Local Government Area is home to some of Nigeria's distinguished personalities spanning the academia, politics, and corporate world. These include some of the following underlisted people.

• Dr. Raymond Obieri , the famous Nigerian banker who founded Summit Finance group and Chairman of Intercontinental Bank PLC who hails from Ufumaland (Ana uvume).
• Professor Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike
  Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike
  Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike, born in Anambra state, Nigeria is a Nigerian writer known for a mixture of lampoon, humor and satire. He owes a little bit of his style to his Igbo cultural upbringing...
  
   the famous educationist and author who hails from Ndikelionwu where he is now a traditional King. He is renowned for novels like The Bottled Leopard and Toads for Supper amongst others.
• Professor Humphrey Nwosu who organised the best election in Nigerian history to date which would have ushered Moshood Abiola to power, but was scuttled by the regime of erstwhile despot Ibrahim Babangida.He hails from Ajali town.
• Dr. Alex Ekwueme , who hails from Okoh town
  Okoh Town
  Okoh is an Igbo speaking town in south eastern Nigeria. It is one of the 16 major towns that make up the geo-political area called Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra state. Okoh has five villages commonly referred to as EBENESE, and forty-five clans known as Umunna. The names of the...
  
   is a scion of the Royal House of Okoh, frontline politician, architect and former Vice-president of Nigeria.

Ufuma is particularly popular in the South Eastern part of Nigeria because it had offered sanctuary to fleeing Biafran warlords during the final days of the Nigerian-Biafran conflict.