Udu

About

Udu is a Local Government Area in Delta State, Nigeria, with its local government headquarters at Otor-Udu. It had a population of 142,480 people at the 2006 census. It is one of the Urhobo kingdoms and has its own king, or ovie. The town is about 10 minutes drive from Osubi Airport. The area is a boundary local government and a suburb of the Warri metropolis. Its villages are historically grouped into three sub-clans, and the economy includes rubber, palm oil, cassava and other crops, as well as the Delta Steel Company and a Shell gas processing facility near Otor-Udu.