Kumo, Nigeria

Kumo is a city and the headquarters of Akko local government in Gombe state, northeastern Nigeria. Kumo is the second largest commercial center in Gombe state, It is located on the A345 highway approximately 40 km south of Gombe. It serves as a collecting point for vegetables, peanuts (groundnuts), cotton, and corn (maize) and as a local trade centre for the sorghum, millet, cowpeas, cassava (manioc), peanuts, goats, cattle, sheep, fowl, horses, donkeys, and cotton raised by the Fulani, Tangale, and Hausa peoples of the surrounding area. The secondary highway between Gombe and Biliri serves the town.[1][2]

Kumo
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City
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Time zoneWAT

Usman Bello Kumo is the current chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs. He also held the same position in the Seventh Assembly.[3]

Kofar Tashan Magarya Kumo
Akko Emir's Palace

Notable people

Infrastructure

As a growing city, kumo has been slowly expanding with the establishment of various learning institutions and road networks that place the town at an advantageous end. On 26 August 2022, a 66 km Gombe-Kumo-Billiri-Kaltungo highway was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari. The sixty-six kilometer road links three States of Gombe, Taraba and Adamawa. While describing the project, the President regarded the highway to be one of the strategic projects aimed at improving the State's road infrastructure, supporting the ease of doing business, creating jobs and entrenching a prosperous economic environment, in line with the administration's commitment to eradicate poverty among the citizens of the areas.[8][9]

References
  1. "Kumo | Nigeria | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  2. Blueprint (11 April 2022). "The advent of Lincoln University Kumo". Blueprint Newspapers. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  3. "Nigeria Police Force grossly understaffed – Rep Usman Bello Kumo". Daily Trust. 18 August 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  4. Yaya, Haruna Gimba (30 December 2022). "Defections threaten PDP's quest to sack APC in Gombe". Daily Trust. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  5. "Gidado Kumo | National Universities Commission". Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  6. Yaya, Haruna Gimba (30 December 2022). "Defections threaten PDP's quest to sack APC in Gombe". Daily Trust. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  7. Online, Tribune (26 August 2020). "Buhari swears in 12 new permanent secretaries". Tribune Online. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  9. "Lincoln University Malaysia Delegation Proposes Varsity in Nigeria". National Universities Commission. Retrieved 2 January 2023.


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