Who Are The Agila People?

AGILA: Agila Town is the Traditional Home of the Agila people of Ado Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria Located approximately on  7° 48′ 0″ N, 7° 39′ 0″ E 7.8, 7.65.   Agila is rich with Traditions,  Customs and beliefs.   The Town has many settlements which includes Apa Ivetse, Ikpenba New Agila, Ogbokwu, Udokwu, Odah, amongst others. Apa  is dominated by the Agila people who could not return to the main Town after the Biafran War of the sixties  

Agila has boundary with Ebonyi State to the East, Enugu State to the West and Igumale to the North, which incidentally is the Local Government headquarters of Ado LGA .
Agila is the name of the area while the people are called ''Asta Agila''
This Town has numerous industrious and learned sons and daughters spread all over the world.
Ado is a local government area of Benue State, Nigeria and was created in 1991. It is one of the 9 local government areas in the southern senatorial zone which is mainly occupied by the Idoma people of Benue State. 
Situated on the railway line transversing the north-south of Nigeria, The area contains mineral and natural resources in commercial quantities such as limestone, kaolin, petroleum and coal. It is a culturally rich and diverse area comprising the Agila/Apa, Ulayi, Ijigbam, Utonkon and Igumale communities. It was one of the first areas in Idoma to have contact with European missionaries, hence it had the first missionary school in the Idoma area. Igumale is the proposed location of Apa State University and Benue state cement factory.
With several tradtional festival such Ujor ,Egbedogwu Akatakpa , Egbedogwu Ogwa  among others Agila is one of finest place on the planet .