Bagudo in context.
Bagudo is one of the local government areas of Kebbi State in northwestern Nigeria. The strongest published material about the area comes through the history of Kebbi itself and through modern administrative records on population, land area and local economic life.
Read that way, Bagudo belongs to an older Kebbi political landscape, passed through the changes that came with the Fulani conquest in the early nineteenth century, and today is known mainly as a farming, fishing, livestock and trading local government on the state's frontier.
- Status
- Local government area in Kebbi State.
- Headquarters
- Bagudo town.
- Area
- 4,782 km2.
- Population
- 238,014 in the 2006 census; 406,700 projected in 2022.
- State created
- Kebbi State was created on August 27, 1991.
- Location
- On the western side of Kebbi State, close to the borders with Benin and Niger.
- Economy
- Farming, fishing, cattle rearing and weekly market trade, especially around Lolo market.
Historical overview
The local written record is limited, but the wider history around Bagudo is clear enough to outline.
Bagudo lies within the historical region of Kebbi. Kebbi State Government traces the old Kebbi kingdom to 1516 under Kanta, while Britannica describes Muhammadu Kanta as the ruler who founded a powerful Hausa kingdom in the sixteenth century. Bagudo's own detailed local chronicle is not widely published, but the area belongs to that larger Kebbi historical setting.[1][2]
That kingdom was later overtaken during the Fulani jihad in 1805. After that, the wider area came under the political order associated with Sokoto and Gwandu, which shaped much of northwestern Nigeria in the nineteenth century.[1]
In modern records, Bagudo appears mainly as an administrative and economic unit rather than as a subject of long historical writing. Kebbi State was created on August 27, 1991, and Bagudo became one of the local government areas inside that state. CityPopulation lists the LGA at 4,782 square kilometres, with a census population of 238,014 in 2006 and a projected population of 406,700 in 2022.[1][3]
Recent local profiles describe everyday life in practical terms: farming, fishing, cattle rearing and weekly trade, especially around Lolo market. That is still the clearest short description of Bagudo today: a rural border local government whose history is tied closely to land, water and exchange.[4]
Key dates
The main dates that help place Bagudo in the history of Kebbi.
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1516
Kebbi State Government dates the founding of the Kebbi kingdom to 1516 under Kanta.
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1805
Kebbi falls during the Fulani jihad, and the wider region passes into the Sokoto-Gwandu political order.
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August 27, 1991
Kebbi State is created, and Bagudo is one of the LGAs within the new state.
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2006 to 2022
Published population figures place Bagudo at 238,014 in 2006, with a 2022 projection of 406,700.
Map
Bagudo on a live map. Open either service for a wider view of the local government area and its border setting.