Isu, Nigeria

Isu Local Government Area
—  LGA  —
Isu Local Government Area
Coordinates:
Country  Nigeria
State Imo State
Headquarters Umundugba
Government
 • Chairman
Time zone WAT (UTC+1)
Website http://www.isu.gov.ng/

Isu is a local government area in the Imo State of Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Umundugba. Other communities are Amandugba, Ekwe, Isunjaba, Amurie Omanze, Ebenator Ekwe and Oboro Amurie.[1] The name comes from the Isu people, a subgroup of the Igbo people.

Amandugba and neighboring Umundugba used to be one town.[2] 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.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Education & Schools". Isu LGA. http://www.isu.gov.ng/about/education-and-schools/. Retrieved 2011-06-02. 
  2. ^ Egbe Ifie, ed (2000). Africa, our times and culture, Volume 1, Part 2. Oputoru Books. p. 194. ISBN 9783528599. 
  3. ^ "The Water for Life Project". Africa We Care. http://www.africawecare.org/water_for_life.html. Retrieved 12011-06-02.