Mantafien is a village under Gbako Local Government, Niger State, Nigeria. Its on the A124 highway in the west of the area at 9°03′00″N 6°09′00″E /  9.05000°N 6.15000°E . It has an area of 1,681 km2 and a population of 122,176 according to the 2015 census. The postal code of the area is 912.
Mantafien is the second largest village in Gbako Local Government Area after Edozhigi.
History is yet to confirm the first settlers of mantafien. The name Mantafien as it is written today by the majority of the people, but the standard written in nupe language is mantafyan.
Mantafyan is a conjuction of two words, "Mamman" and "Tafyan", that is "mammantafyan" as its corrupted today as Mantafyan or mantafien.
In the 21st century, Mantafien was not a single settlement but actually villages, closely namely:
1.Ezhi Mamman and
2.Ezhi Tafyan.
Mamman is a compound of "Man" (Nupe word for schoolar) and Tafe, Tafien or Tafyan (The great Hunter).
It was reported that In the old Nupe the word "Mamman" and "Tafe" will translates in to English as (Great Scholar) and (Great Hunter), Mamman (The great Islamic Scholar) was the great grand father of the late Sheikh Muhammad Awal Mankashi, and Their is beautiful story about him being called mankashi.
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