Kajuru

Kajuru (Adara: Ajure) is a local government area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Kajuru.

The major ethnic group is the Adara. The Adara people are otherwise known as Kadara by the Hausa. Others include the Hausa and settler elements such as the Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo, amongst others from the various parts of the state and country.

Kajuru is marked by a distinct wet and dry season. The most important climatic variables in the study area include temperature, rainfall and relative humidity.

Get in

By car

Roads to Kaduna from Abuja and Kano are good. From Abuja the journey takes 2½ hours by car.

By plane

Kaduna International Airport KAD ^IATA is 22 km (14 mi) northwest of the city. It has frequent daily flights from Lagos (1 hr 15 min, US$34 one-way) on Aero Nigeria, and Dana Airlines.

By train

Kaduna is an important junction on Nigeria's Cape gauge railway network. There, a branch line connects the Lagos–Nguru Railway to the Port Harcourt–Maiduguri Railway via Kafanchan.

Kaduna is also on the route of the planned Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway, which has been completed between the national capital of Abuja and Kaduna. Trains for Abuja depart from the Rigasa Railway Station in Kaduna.

See

• 1 Kajuru Castle. Kajuru Castle is a luxury villa, built between 1981 and 1989, by a German expatriate in Nigeria, living in Kaduna at the time. The castle is on a mountaintop with 1-m-thick granite stone in a fanciful medieval-inspired Romanesque style, it is adorned with turrets, an armory and a dungeon. (updated Mar 2022)

Buy

The Old Kajuru Super Market is available very close to the local government secretariat.

Sleep

• Kajuru Castle, Tafawa Balewa Road, City Centre, ☏ +234 704 620 4905. (updated Jan 2022)

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• Kachia
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