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Pankshin is popularly known for its trade hub as most of the people are farmers growing a vast range of food crops such as millet, guinea corn, maize, tomatoes, rice, onions, cabbage, carrot and collections of fruits. Pankshin is well known also due to the consumption of dog meat by the natives and
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With an average daily high temperature above 87°F, the 2.5-month hot season runs from
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It has an area of 1,524 km and a population of 191,685 at the 2006 However, some of the native inhabitants are widely found in neighboring localities where they migrated over a hundred years in search of better agricultural land: Shendam, Gindiri, Mangu, Bokkos and a number of states such as
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Situated amidst people with diverse cultures, Pankshin inhabitants speak a number of languages including Ngas, Mupun, Miship, Fier, Tal, Kadung, Pal and Bijim. They are lovable people with high regard for people irrespective of colour, gender or tribe. Predominantly populated by
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Cultural festival of the Ngas nation known as Pusdung. Mondays in Pankshin is specifically for trading – buying and selling, hence the name "Monday market" as traders, merchants and people in the environs and as far as away as Bauchi come to buy and sell.
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