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Garki is a Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Garki. It is also called Garkin Dirani, the name of the head of the district.

Garki, Nigeria
LGA and town
Nickname: 
Garkin Dirani
Garki, Nigeria
location of Garki in Nigeria
Coordinates:
Country Nigeria
StateJigawa State
Government
  Local Government ChairmanMudassir Musa (APC)
Time zoneUTC+1 (WAT)

It has an area of 1,408 km2 and had a population of 152,233 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 733.[1]

Garki was the site of the Garki Project, a multidisciplinary study performed by the World Health Organization from 1969 to 1976 into the effectiveness of malaria intervention techniques.[2]


References


  1. "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  2. Molineaux, L.; Gramiccia, G. (1980). The Garki Project: Research on the Epidemiology and Control of Malaria in the Sudan Savanna of West Africa. World Health Organization. ISBN 9241560614.





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