It is one of the two towns in the Mopamuro Local Government Area in Kogi state Nigeria and used to be the headquarters of the Lower Niger-River Basin Development Authority in the 1970s before it was moved to Niger state by the Babangida administration.
It is one of the two towns in the MopAmuro Local Government Area in Kogi state Nigeria. Amuro people are renowned for their cocoa farms and used to contain the Lower Niger-River Basin Development Authority in the 1980s before it was moved to Niger state by the Babangida administration.