Udu is a
Local Government Area
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in
Delta State
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,
Nigeria
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with its local government headquarters at
Otor-Udu. It has a population estimate of approximately 250,000 people. It is one of the
Urhobo kingdoms, has its own king, or ''ovie''. The town is about 10 minutes drive from
Osubi Airport
Geography
The land is interlocked by rivers flowing across. It has a tropical weather and rain forest with evergreen vegetation and plantation all year round. Its geographical feature consists of numerous streams that inter-connect into an intricate web of rivers, lagoons, swamps and wetlands.
It is a boundary city/local government and a suburb of
Warri
The city of Warri is an oil hub within South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House. Warri City is one of the major hubs of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. Warri, Udu, Okpe and Uvwie are the commercial ...
metropolis and is connected from
Enerhen by the Udu Bridge over
Warri River.
Climate
of an average yearly temperature of 28.58°C and 204.98 days of precipitation, the savanna climate in Ndiagu-Onicha is tropical wet and dry.
Cultural heritage
The villages that makes up of the present Udu local government area are historically grouped into three sub-clans.
Evwrirhe Sub-clans
These are the villages and towns:
Aladja,
Ovwian, Emadadja,
Egini, Obubu,
Ubogo, Oleri, Oto Udu, Ogbe Udu, Ukpiovwin, Ukperheren, Ayama, Ekrota, Ugbisi, Owhrode, Ekete Oboto, Ekete Uburhie, Okolo Uburhie, Okolo Oboto, Ovworhokpokpo, Erhiephiho, Egiegi, Epame, Ujevwu, Oghior, Ohwase.
Oniere Sub-clan
These are Orho-Uwherun (
Orhuwhorun) (Uwherun settlement), Igbogidi, and DSC Township, new town founded due to the construction of Delta Steel Company (DSC) at Aladja, Steel Township.
Uheredjo Sub-clans
These are Opete, Okpaka and Enerhen.
Economy
Udu's natural resources include rubber and rubber products, palm oil and palm products,
cassava
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, fruits, vegetables and maize available in large quantities. Silica is available in a nearby town for the manufacture of glass and also is crude oil, natural gas and other minerals for the petrochemical industry.
To the right of the Udu Bridge are the Delta Steel plant, Africa's first direct steel reduction variety of metallurgy, and Udu market. A
Shell
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gas processing facility is situated near Otor-Udu, together with other engineering companies.
A railway line connects
Itakpe-
Ajaokuta to Warri through
Aladja.
References
External links
Delta State site
{{LGAs and communities of Delta State
Local Government Areas in Delta State
Port cities and towns in Nigeria