Nyanya

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Nyanya
Nyanya (Nigeria)
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Coordinates 8 ° 34 ′  N , 8 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 34 ′  N , 8 ° 19 ′  E
Basic data
Country Nigeria

State

Nassarawa
ISO 3166-2 NG-NA
height 381 m
Post Code 900103

Nyanya is a city in the state of Nassarawa in Nigeria , around 26 km south-east of the capital city of Abuja .

geography

The city belongs to the Karu Local Government Area. It borders in the northwest on the Federal Capital Territory around the Nigerian capital Abuja , in the north on the village Akwanga in the Local Government Area , as well as in the southeast on Lafia and in the south on Orozo in the Karshi district .

traffic

The New Nyanya Mass Transport Company currently has three bus stations: the Nyanya Mass Transit Bus Park , the Zuba Motor Park and the Utako Motor Parks. Maintain the stops, a daily bus line on the Abuja-Keffi Expressway to the state capital Abuja.

In the past, the bus stations were repeatedly the target of terrorist attacks by the Muslim terrorist organization Boko Haram . On April 14, 2014, 71 people were killed by two car bombs in the Nyanya Mass Transit Bus Park. On May 1, 2014, an attack on the private bus stop Zuba Park occurred 100 meters west of Nyanya Park , in which at least nine people were killed by a car bomb.

education

The city currently has one kindergarten , two preschools and seven secondary schools .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nyanya
  2. ^ Abuja Get to Know - Abuja City, Nigeria
  3. ↑ isted.com ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isted.com
  4. ^ Post-Nyanya blasts: Abuja motor parks remain insecure
  5. ^ Nyanya Mass Transit
  6. ↑ Die Welt : Many dead after explosion in Nigeria's capital
  7. ↑ Jimoh: Nigeria violence: Explosion hits Abuja near motor park blast. In: BBC News. April 26, 2014, accessed April 26, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Heather Murdock: Explosion at Least 71 Killed in Nigeria. In: Voice of America. April 26, 2014, accessed April 26, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Vladimir Duthiers: At least 8 killed in Nigerian blast. In: CNN. April 26, 2014, accessed April 26, 2014 .
  10. ^ Providers of School Of Nursing Midwifery in Nyanya, Nasarawa . V Connect. January 23, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2011.