![]() ![]() The main market in the state is located there, Kaduna Central Market, others include Kasuwar Barci (sleeping market), Kawo weekly market, Ungwan rimi and Ungwan shanu weekly markets. Kaduna north is the largest contributor to the Kaduna state economy, there are many small and large scale companies and industries with various commercial activities. There are tertiary institutions that provide post secondary education in the local government, which include Kaduna State University, Nigerian Defence Academy, Mando Advance College of Animal Science. There are many educational institutions in Kaduna north that include both public and private, there are 160 primary schools belonging to the local government and 40 to private individuals which summed up to t0tal of 200 primary schools, and 13 secondary schools belonging to local government and 13 to private individuals. It is characterized by two distinct seasonal regimes, oscillating between cool to hot dry and humid to wet season. Kaduna North lies completely in the part of Western Africa, well within the northern limit of the movement of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). It is over 650 metres above mean sea level (a.m.s.l.) in some places, and below 500 metres in places that slope downward towards the river. The topographical relief is relatively flat, having an elevation of between 600 and 650 metres in large areas of the local government. The geology of Kaduna North is predominantly metamorphic rocks of the Nigerian basement complex consisting of biotite gneisses and older granites (Kaduna State, 2003). The basement complex rocks are essentially granites, gneisses, migmatites, schists and quartzites (Benett, 1979 13). The entire Kaduna state is underlain by a basement complex of igneous and metamorphic rocks of mainly Jurassic to Pre-Cambrian ages. Kaduna North Local Government Area consists of 12 subdivisions (second-order administrative divisions) or electoral wards, namely: The population of Kaduna north is at 423,580 as of 2006 Nigeria population census. It has an area of 72 km 2 and density of 5, 883.1 inh./km 2. It is bordered by Igabi local government to the South, West, and Southeast, by Kaduna South, Chikun, Kajuru and Kauru local governments to the Northeast. ![]() Kaduna North is located between latitudes 10 35 North and Longitudes 7 25 East. Kaduna North is the oldest local government in the state. ![]()
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