[2] It was important in the trade route the stretched from Yendi to Bouna.

There is an Army Special Operations Training School at Daboya.

[3] Daboya is inhabited by the Gonja, Tampulma, Dagomba, and Hanga.

[4] Daboya was an important salt trading settlement in the Kingdom of Dagbon.

[7] Its glorious days of salt production are now in the past, especially as large scale salt mining industries, such as Electrochem, are established at Ada.