Fufore
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Fufore is a town and local government area in Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Fufore is a town and local government area in Adamawa State, Nigeria. ==Demography== ===Languages=== In a 2023 demographic survey of Internally displaced persons (IDPs), the most predominant languages (spoken at homes and places of primary residence) present in the local government area were; Fulfulde, specifically Eastern or Adamawa Fulfulde – 38.3%, Hausa – 26.1%, Chamba Donga – 10.1%, Bachama/Bwatiye – 3.4%, Kanuri – 3.4%, Yendang – 2.5%, Marghi – 2.4%, Mumuye – 1.8%, Lau (of Laka) – 1.8%, Kilba/South Marghi – 1.4%, Kamwe – 0.9%, Jukun – 0.9%, and twelve other languages spoken by populations below 1% each. This data was not obtained from a nationally co-ordinated population headcount. The last time Nigeria included ethnic and linguistic data in its enumeration parameters was in the national census of 1963. ==Languages== The languages spoken in Fufore LGA are: Fulani Gengle Koma Kugama Kumba Mboi Mumuye Verre Bata ==Displaced people== In 2014, people fleeing violence in Gwoza built a new town in Fufore, at the existing hamlet of Daware (or Damare), off the Yola-Mubi highway. "The condition given for their stay in Daware was that no temporary tents will be erected as the new residents have been allotted both farm and building plots to begin normal life." A school was set up at Damare Camp for the children, with teachers volunteering from the Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, and American University of Nigeria, Yola.
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