Uga

Uga is a town in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. It lies 13 kilometres south-east of Igbo-Ukwu, 12 kilometres south of Ekwulobia and 45 kilometres south of Awka, the state capital. The town has four communities, Umueze, Oka, Umuoru and Awarasi, and a post office. Its best known landmark is Obizi, a natural spring that also supplies drinking water; in 2017 the Anambra State Government and the World Bank spent about N1.2 billion on reactivating the Obizi Water Scheme. Uga holds the annual Obuofor festival on 26 December and has Orie, one of the largest markets in Aguata. During the Nigerian Civil War it was a theatre of the Biafran war because it hosted an airstrip, built from a stretch of the Orlu to Awka road, which became a secondary strip to Uli; the pilot Carl Gustaf von Rosen based the small Biafran squadron of five MFI-9 aircraft known as the Babies of Biafra there. Senator Andy Uba is among its notable people. GeoNames lists the town with 64,179 people.