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Ohaozara

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Ohaozara
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Country Nigeria
StateEbonyi State
Time zoneUTC+1 (WAT)
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Ohaozara is a Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. It is made up of Ugwulangwu, Uburu and Okposi. The headquarters are in the town of Uburu. It has an area of 312 km2 (120 sq mi) and a population of 148,626 as of the 2006 census. The Ohaozara local government is made up of Ohaozara people subgroup of Igbo people and speak Ohaozara dialect. The current chairman is Chinonso Ajah. The local government is Under Ohanivo Federal Constituency currently representing by Livinus Mbakwe. It's also under Ebonyi South Senetorial District being represented currently by Michael Ama Nnachi.

The postal code of the area is 491

The 1976 to 1996 Ohaozara LGA (under Imo and Abia state) is today split into three area concils namely; Ohaozara local government, Onicha local government and Ivo local government of Ebonyi state. It's known as Old Ohaozara or commonly OHANIVO (acronyms of OHAozara, oNicha and IVO. The three local government areas now belong to one constituency called the Ohanivo Federal Constituency.



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  1. ^ "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2009-10-20.