The state government says medical teams have already started working to check the spreading of the bacterial infection of the intestine.
Romo Adamu, a top health official for the region, says hundreds of cholera infections has been reported with the death toll climbing up to thirty.
Cholera is a critical bacterial infection of the intestine caused by eating unhygienic food or drinking contaminated water. Diarrhea and vomiting are the key symptoms of cholera. Epidemics are quite widespread in Nigeria because a majority of the country's more than 130-million people don't have access to clean drinking water.
Meanwhile, the United Nations says 31,259 people in nine other west African countries have become victims of cholera since June. So far, 488 have died of the disease.
