THANKS TO ILIYA YAME KWACHE YOU ARE INDEED VOICE TO THE KAMWE PLEASE KAMWE BRO/SIS READ THIS IT VERY IMPORTANT Wikipedia Atom feed Search Last modified on 19 August 2014, at 03:52 Michika Michika Mwecika LGA and town Nickname(s): The Igbos of Northern Nigeria Motto: Land of Triple Heritage Michika Coordinates: 10°37′5″N 13°23′22″E / 10.61806°N 13.38944°E Country Nigeria State Adamawa State Time zone WAT (UTC+1) Michika is a Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. The principal tribe and language in Michika is the Kamwe. Michika local government was created in 1976. It is located in the northern axis of the state and is bordered on the East by the Republic of Cameroon. Michika is made of eight districts. Michika is the corrupted word for Mwe-ci-ka which is the Kamwe Language for creeping in silently. Oral history has it that Michika was founded around the late 17th century by Kwada Kwakaa who was a hunter hunting on the Michika hills. Mwe in the Kamwe language means heaven or hills. While Ci-ka means creep. Kwada Kwakaa was a heroic Kamwe prince from Kuli in Nkafamiya. Legend in Kamwe land believed that Kwada Kwakaa could hunt lions by himself. Michika local government is the most populated in Adamawa State. The Kamwe people are generally very enterprising, as they are found in big cities and towns in Nigeria engaging in all forms of lawful trades. The Kamwe people are peaceful and hospitable people.[citation needed] The District Head of Michika Town is Nggida Zakawa Kwache, a retired civil servant. He is a devout Christian and is admired by all in Kamwe Land. He was elected by the four village heads that make up the Michika District on the 31st of December 2013.[citation needed] Michika is a cosmopolitan town. It has branches of many banks, a college of health technology, a technical college and many secondary schools. The oldest and most popular secondary school in Michika is the Government Senior Secondary School (G.S.S.) Michika. The inhabitants of Michika local government are mainly Christians with a percentage estimated at 97 percent while the remaining three percent are traditional religion worshipers and Muslims. There are about 26 chiefdoms and 84 villages around the mountainous ranges in Michika local government. Michika town is traversed by a stream called Wathara. There are many cultural festivals performed by the Kamwe people in Michika. Foremost amongst them are the Yawale, Wasinata and the Ngarba and the zhitta dance among other festivals. There are also tourists sites and scenery in Michika like the Kwandree cold spring water at Dlaka and the Kamale peak at Kamale. The Kamwe people embraced western education early and hence they have many intellectuals and have the highest number of primary school pupil enrolment in Adamawa State. Michika has produced prominent sons such as the former governors of the state Abubakar Saleh Michika and Boni Haruna. Other famous Kamwe people were Late Damude T. Kwache, who was the pioneer educationist in Kamwe land and Late Reverend (Dr) John Guli who was a Christian leader who initiated the translation of the Holy Bible into the Kamwe language.[citation needed] In 2012, the population of Michika was projected at 700,000. Template:Google demography 2014 There is saidTemplate:Gelogical Society of Nigeria 1976 to be enormous uranium deposits in Michika. Mrs Binta Masi Garba a Kamweland daughter has made history by being the first female to become a political party chairman in Nigeria. There has been a new sensitization by Kamwe youths for the establishment of a University in Michika to be called the Kwada Kwakaa University of Michika named after the founder of Michika. Major Languages Kamwe (Higgi) References Read in another language Mobile Desktop Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted.
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