Gembu (Gembu)
Gembu is a town on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State of Nigeria. It is the headquarters of Sardauna Local Government Area (formerly "Mambilla" LGA) in Taraba State.
Sitting at an average elevation of about 1348 m above sea level, it is among the highest elevated towns in Nigeria.
It was believed from antiquity that the first inhabitants of the entire Mambilla Region were the descendants of the Bantu ancestors,who are known to have inhabited the region by 5000 BC (Zeitlyn & Connell, 2003). They constitute the Bantu people who stayed home in the Mambilla region after the Bantu expansion across Africa between 3000 BC and 1500 AD. These are represented in this town by the Mambilla people who founded it.
Sitting at an average elevation of about 1348 m above sea level, it is among the highest elevated towns in Nigeria.
It was believed from antiquity that the first inhabitants of the entire Mambilla Region were the descendants of the Bantu ancestors,who are known to have inhabited the region by 5000 BC (Zeitlyn & Connell, 2003). They constitute the Bantu people who stayed home in the Mambilla region after the Bantu expansion across Africa between 3000 BC and 1500 AD. These are represented in this town by the Mambilla people who founded it.
Map - Gembu (Gembu)
Map
Country - Nigeria
Flag of Nigeria |
Nigeria has been home to several indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms since the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization in the 15th century BC, marking the first internal unification in the country. The modern state originated with British colonialization in the 19th century, taking its present territorial shape with the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914 by Lord Lugard. The British set up administrative and legal structures while practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms in the Nigeria region. Nigeria became a formally independent federation on 1 October 1960. It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970, followed by a succession of military dictatorships and democratically elected civilian governments until achieving a stable democracy in the 1999 presidential election. The 2015 general election was the first time an incumbent president failed to be re-elected.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
---|---|---|---|
NGN | Nigerian naira | ₦ | 2 |
ISO | Language |
---|---|
EN | English language |
HA | Hausa language |
IG | Igbo language |
YO | Yoruba language |