Bagudo
Bagudo
LGA and town in Kebbi State, Nigeria
Bagudo is a Local Government Area in Kebbi State, Nigeria, sharing a boundary with the Republic of Niger and Republic of Benin. Its headquarters are in the town of Bagudo.
It has an area of 7,782 km2 and a population of 865,817 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of the area is 871.[1]
Bagudo was strongly cosmopolitan with settled populations of Fulani, Zabarmawa and remains so with the Hausa language spoken as a lingua-franca by over 1.5 million speakers in the region. Islam arrived the city in the 16 century or earlier primarily through the trans-Saharan trade and as a result became wealthy and the commercial nerve centre of the region and is still associated as the "centre of Farming, Herdmen and Many more.