The Akurmi people (Hausa: Kurama[2]), are an ethnic group in Kaduna and Kano States which speaks the T'kurmi language, an East Kainji language of Nigeria.
The Akurmi people, a friendly people who practice subsistence farming were said to have settled in Kaduna State about 600 years ago.
[1] The Akurmi are reportedly predominantly Christian, numbering 88.0% (with Independents at 30.0%, Protestants 50.0% and Roman Catholics 20.0%).
The remaining being adherents of Ethnic religion, 6.0% and Islam, 6.0%.
The current monarch, HRH Dr. Ishaku S. Damina, B'gwam Kurmi II was reportedly detained by the Kaduna State governor in 2017.