Jimeta

Jimeta is a town in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, lying along the Benue River. Wikipedia gives its population as 73,080 in 1991 and its elevation as 135 metres. Jimeta and the nearby state capital Yola have interconnected histories and were unified as one town between 1935 and 1955, which is why some people call the pair Jimeta Yola. Jimeta serves as the river port of Yola and also contains the Yola airport. The article classes its climate as tropical savanna with a dry winter, Koppen type Aw. Jimeta was seriously flooded in August 2012, when a heavy storm and the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon left many residents displaced and damaged farmland, as reported by the National Emergency Management Agency.