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Ubiaja

Field	Value
name	Ubiaja
settlement_type	Town
pushpin_map	Nigeria
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_mapsize	200
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Nigeria
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Nigeria
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Edo State
subdivision_type2	Local Government Area
subdivision_name2	Esan South-East
timezone	WAT
utc_offset	+1
coordinates
blank_name	Climate
blank_info	Aw

Ubiaja is a community in the Esan South-East Local Government Area (LGA), Edo State, Nigeria. It is at an altitude of 221 m. Most of the people belong to the Esan tribe, one of the major town that make up Esanland.{{cite web |access-date = 2009-11-27 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090905081813/http://ubiajaunion.org/default.aspx |archive-date = 2009-09-05

Ubiaja is in a rain forest region, with 1,800 mm to 2,000 mm of rainfall each year. The red soil is fertile and many of the people farm crops such as yam, cassava and beans, or cash crops including oil palm, cocoa and rubber.

History

The date of Ubiaja's founding is not known, but the kingdom of which it was the capital was founded in 1463 by immigrants from the Benin Empire. The town is said to have been founded by a man called Edeikholor, treasurer of the Bini empire during the reign of Ewuare the Great. The name may be a variant of "Obiaza", meaning treasurer, or may come from "Obize", a type of fish that helped Edeikholor cross a stream, a fish which the people of Ubiaja still abstain from eating.{{cite web |access-date=2009-11-27 |archive-date=2009-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908211604/http://ubiajaunion.org/newsletter.aspx |url-status=dead

Geography

Ubiaja is a Local Government area of Edo state, Esan South East. Ubiaja local Government consist of "Okuesan", "Emu", "Ugboha", "Emunokhua", "Ikeken", "Ebhohimi" and "Ohordua". These are the communities that make up Esan South East Local Government area of Ubiaja

References

"Chapter Four: Legal Status of Immigrants: Rights For Illegal Immigrants?". Peter Lang.

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