About Wase
Wase is a town and Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State, Nigeria. Situated some 216 km south east of Jos, the Plateau State capital, Wase State is a traditional state founded in the area in 1820; this became part of the British Royal Niger Company protectorate (later Northern Nigeria) in 1898.
The population of the LGA was 125,000 people as of 2003, and the area is 1750 km².
Languages spoken in Wase are Jukun, Taroh & Hausa/Fulani.
