Gwer East

Gwer East is a Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Aliade.

Gwer East
LGA
Country	Nigeria
State	Benue State
Local Government Headquarters	Aliade
Government
• Local Government Chairman and the Head of the Local Government Council	Hon. Timothy Nyiakura Adi
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)

It has an area of 2,294 km² and a population of 163,647 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 971.^[1]

The Local Government has three districts: Yonov, Njiriv, and Ngyohov. It has 17 council wards and shares a boundary with seven other local government areas.^[2]