Amandugba | |
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Coordinates: 5°41′2″N 7°4′8″E / 5.68389°N 7.06889°E | |
Country | Nigeria |
State | Imo State |
LGA | Isu |
National language | Igbo |
Amandugba (or Amanduba) is a town in the Isu Local Government Area in Imo State, Nigeria. [1]
The community is inhabited by Isu people, a subgroup of the Igbo people.[ citation needed] In Amauzari tradition, the town is named after Ndugba, child of Mbama Onyeukwu. [2] As of September 2010, the traditional ruler of Amandugba was Eze Innocent Ikejiofor. [3]
The community has four primary schools and one secondary technical school. [4] Amandugba and neighboring Umundugba used to be one town. [5] Both communities have suffered from an unreliable water supply from streams and brooks that often dry up, and that are breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes and sources of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, guinea worm, tape worm, and night blindness. A recent project by Africa We Care, a charity, has started to develop a supply based on a bore-hole. [6]