Rigasa, Kaduna

Rigasa is a community in Igabi local government area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. It is one of the largest and densely populated areas in Nigeria. Rigasa is one of the 255 wards in Kaduna and there are more than three million people living in the area.[1][2]

Education

Education in Rigasa faces challenges of infrastructural facilities in the sense that as big as the community it has no more than three public primary schools and public secondary schools, where one of the schools in the area, L. E. A Primary School at Lokoja road has more than thirty thousand pupils, this school was later upgraded to 110 classrooms with 60 toilets and 14 staff rooms with their toilets [2][3]

Population
Rigasa Railway station in Kaduna State

There are over three million people living in Rigasa where women have the largest share of the population due to high rate of deaths of their husband as a result of community vices.[3]

References
  1. Malumfashi, Sada. "Nigeria's railway people: Life alongside a high-speed rail link". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  2. "Rigasa: Metamorphosis of a fearsome enclave". Tribune Online. 2018-04-15. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  3. Louis, Fadaka (2020-09-05). "El-Rufai: New look of LEA Primary School, Lokoja, Rigyasa". GBETU TV. Retrieved 2021-09-27.


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