Malumfashi

Malumfashi, also written Malum Fashi, is a town and local government in Katsina State, Nigeria. The local government has an area of 674 square kilometres and had a population of 182,920 at the 2006 census, while City Population counted 42,415 residents in the town itself at the 1991 census. Its postal code is 822. The climate has a hot season of about 1.9 months with average highs over 35 degrees Celsius and a cool season of 2.7 months. The area is the home of Justice Saddik Abdullahi Mahuta, the longest serving Chief Judge of Katsina State from 1991 to 2013 and the Galadiman Katsina and District Head of Malumfashi, and of Sunusi Mamman, Vice Chancellor of Umaru Musa Yar'adua University.