Numan

Numan, also known as Nomweh, a name meaning hilltop, is a town and a Local Government Area in Adamawa State, Nigeria. It is a port town on the confluence of the Benue River and the Gongola River. The predominant ethnic group is the Bwatiye, or Bachama, led by a First Class King called the Hama Bachama, whose palace, the Voti, stands in Numan as the administrative seat of the Bachama throne, while Lamurde is the spiritual and ancestral home of the people. Numan is the location of Adamawa State Polytechnic. A 2023 survey of displaced persons found the local government area mainly Bachama speaking, followed by Hausa and Mbula-Bwazza. Farming is the main economic activity, with peanuts, cowpea, sorghum and millet, along with livestock rearing, trade, hunting and leatherworking.