Wamba

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Wamba is one of the 13 local government areas in Nasarawa State in North-central Nigeria, and it includes a town of the same name. The area is agrarian and is known for cassava, pigeon pea, palm kernel and palm oil production, and it has mineral deposits such as lead, barite, tantalite, columbite, aquamarine and gold, which the article says have yet to be officially exploited. The local government is home to several ethnic groups, including the Arum, Atoro, Buh, Kantana, Kulere, Ninzom, Ninkada, Reindeer and Yashi peoples, and is both heteroethnic and heteroreligious. The area is known for the Farin Ruwa Falls, described as one of the longest cascades in Africa, which flows from the highlands of the Plateau states down to the foothills in Wamba local government. The local government had an estimated land area of 1,156 square kilometres and a population of about 72,894 based on 2006 census estimates.