[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.