Effium

{{More citations needed|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Effium | other_name = | native_name = | nickname = | settlement_type = Town | motto = | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_size = | image_seal = | seal_size = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Nigeria | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nigeria | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Nigeria}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Ebonyi State | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = Benue State | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_title = | leader_name = | established_title = | established_date =  | area_magnitude = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_land_km2 =  | population_as_of = | population_footnotes = | population_note = | population_total = | population_density_km2 = | population_density_urban_sq_mi = | population_blank1_title = Ethnicities | opulation_blank1 = | population_blank2_title = Religions | population_blank2 = | population_density_blank1_km2 = | population_density_blank1_sq_mi = | | timezone = WAT | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = | utc_offset_DST = | coordinates = {{coord|6|38|N|8|04|E|type:city_region:NG|display=inline,title}} | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft =  | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code = | iso_code = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Effium''' is the largest of the autonomous Orring communities in Ebonyi State of southeast region, Nigeria.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berry |first1=Jack |last2=Sebeok |first2=Thomas Albert |title=Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa |date=21 August 2017 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-156252-0 |page=274 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Linguistics_in_Sub_Saharan_Africa/qYhdDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=effium+orring&pg=PA274&printsec=frontcover |access-date=4 January 2026 |language=en}}</ref> Effium is located in the Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi State. The indigenous people are the Effium, a subgroup of the Orring people found in Ebonyi, Benue and Cross River states.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frawley |first1=William |title=International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-Volume Set |date=May 2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-513977-8 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/International_Encyclopedia_of_Linguistic/sl_dDVctycgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=effium+orring&pg=PA400&printsec=frontcover |access-date=4 January 2026 |language=en}}</ref>

== Economy == The major occupation in Effium is agriculture. The major agricultural products include: yam, cassava, rice, groundnut, palm oil and timbers.

== Demographics == Effium community has other minor communities known as Okporo, Okpodum, Okpere, Ivweda, Ebia, Watuma, Ogbagere, Ikachi, Ohage, Enweminyi, Ubegu, Okpudu, Uffiacha, Ibilifu, Ikachi, and Lebadọgọm communities.

== History == The first tribe that settled in Effium were the Effium people then they accommodated the Ezza<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nwankwo |first=Casmir |date=2025-05-09 |title=Ezza-Effium/Effium crisis: Nwifuru signs into law creation of 5 autonomous communities |url=https://dailypost.ng/2025/05/09/ezza-effium-effium-crisis-nwifuru-signs-into-law-creation-of-5-autonomous-communities/ |location=Lagos, Nigeria|access-date=2025-05-31 |newspaper=Daily Post|language=en-US}}</ref> followed by Arochukwu, Amuda and others.

== Culture == Effium as a community has common cultures that has been passed down by the ancestors of Effium which includes: New yam festival Jioha, and Kija S'etuo. Other cultural ceremonies include Vwujojo, and Vwugba.

Effium shares common boundaries with Benue State, Izzi, Ngbo, Uli and Igumale.

It has a very large market popularly known as Effium main market among many others where agricultural commodities are purchased in large quantities and transported to other parts of the country and for export. It is one of the largest markets in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Other markets in Effium include Inikiri Udeno market and Inikiri ichari market.

==See also== * Lists of villages in Nigeria

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