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The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa,in northern Cameroon,north-western Central African Republic,southern Chad,and eastern Nigeria,spoken altogether by only one and a half million people. Joseph Greenberg classified them as one branch of the Adamawa–Ubangi family of Niger–Congo languages. They are among the least studied languages in Africa,and include many endangered languages;by far the largest is Mumuye,with 400,000 speakers. A couple of unclassified languages—notably Laal and Jalaa—are found along the fringes of the Adamawa area.
Iya Abubakar is a Nigerian politician and mathematician who held multiple cabinet level appointments during the Nigerian Second Republic,and Senator for Adamawa North from May 1999 to May 2007.
Abubakar Saleh Michika was a Nigerian civilian governor of Adamawa State,Nigeria from 2 January 1992 to 17 November 1993. He was a member of the then ruling National Republican Convention (NRC). He worked with the British Bank of West Africa in 1966,then John Holt company before joining politics. He was born in Michika,headquarters of the Michika Local Government Area (LGA),in what is now known as Adamawa State Northeast Nigeria. He attended his primary school and Secondary schools in Yola Middle School and done his post secondary education at the School for Arabic studies. He is married to four wives with 38 children,17 boys and 21 girls,105 grandchildren,and four great-grandchildren,all from his four wives;Hajiya Daudu,Mairama,Aisha and Nana Saleh Michika from Tamanrasset,Algeria. Saleh Michika created a stir when he said in 1992 that he would be willing to relocate to the neighbouring Cameroun if there were a military coup in Nigeria. Fourteen years later,he made a controversial statement that the solution to the problems of corruption and misrule in the country would be a diarchy,a mixture of military and civilian personalities,with a military head of state.
The Longuda or Lunguda are a West African ethnic group living in Adamawa and Gombe States in northeastern Nigeria. They are the only known matriarchal tribe in Nigeria. The Lunguda consider matrilineal descent in many aspects of their social organisation more important than the patrilineal descent. Clan membership may even be counted on the mother line. This custom is not found with their other neighbors or in other tribes of Nigeria.
Grace Folashade Bent née Makinwa is a Nigerian senator who was elected in April 2007 on the People's Democratic Party platform in the Adamawa South constituency of Adamawa State.
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Michika (Mwe-cika) is a town and Local Government Area in Adamawa State,Nigeria,it is the administrative headquarters of the local government. It is in Northern Adamawa State and located directly across the border from the famous tourist site of Mcedigyi in vecemwe Rhumsiki in Cameroon. Mwe-cika (Michika) is the fourth largest town in Adamawa State.
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Adamawa State Polytechnic is a tertiary educational institution in Yola,Adamawa State,Nigeria. It was established in 1991 through a merger of the College of Preliminary Studies Yola and the Staff Development Institute,Numan. The new polytechnic provides national diploma programs in computer science,statistics,accountancy,business studies and secretarial studies. The polytechnic,run by the State government,is accredited by the National Board for Technical Education. The institution has become affiliated with the University of Maiduguri for the purpose of running degree programmes.
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On 1 May 2018,two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a mosque and a market in the town of Mubi in the state of Adamawa in eastern Nigeria,killing at least 86 people and injuring 58 others. The blasts were carried out by young boys and happened shortly after 1:00 pm. No group claimed responsibility for the attack,but the blame was attributed to the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group.
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Kate Raymond Mamuno is a Nigerian politician and lawmaker. She currently serves as a Majority Leader of the Adamawa State House of Assembly representing Demsa constituency in Adamawa state.
Abdulmalik Jauro Musa was a Nigerian politician. He served as a deputy minority whip at the Adamawa State House of assembly representing Ganye constituency. He passed away on Friday,May 2024.
Mahmoud Musa Kallamu is a Nigerian politician. He currently serves a Majority Leader representing Mayo Belwa Constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assembly.
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