Yagba East

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Yagba East is a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Isanlu on the A123 highway, and it is populated mainly by the Yagba/Ekiti people. As a local government area, it is an administrative division of the state that provides local governance for the communities within its boundaries. The area had a population of 140,150 at the 2006 census and an area of 1,396 square kilometres. By 2016 the population was estimated to have grown to 199,300. The local government area uses the postal code prefix 262.