Ado Bayero CFR,LLD,JP was the Emir of Kano from 1963 to 2014.
Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi was a Nigerian politician who was the governor of Kano State during the Second Nigerian Republic. He also served as Federal Minister of Communications from 1993 to 1995 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
Sumaila is a historic town and the headquarters of a Local Government Area in Kano State,Nigeria.
Zangon Kataf is a Local Government Area in southern Kaduna State,Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Zonkwa. It is also a name of a town in the chiefdom of the Atyap. Other towns include:Batadon (Madakiya),Agut Ntswuo,Kamantan,Anchuna and Kamuru. It has an area of 2,579 km2 and a population of 318,991 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 802.
Ishaya Bakut was Military Governor of Benue State in Nigeria from September 1986 to December 1987 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. He was Field Commander in Liberia of the ECOMOG West African multinational force from September 1991 to December 1992.
The Atyap people are an ethnic group found majorly in Zangon-Kataf,Kaura and Jema'a Local Government Areas of southern Kaduna State and Riyom of Plateau State,Nigeria. They speak the Tyap language,one of the Central Plateau languages.
Alhaji Abdu Dawakin Tofa was a Nigerian politician who served as Governor of Kano between May 1983 and October 1983 during the Second Nigerian Republic. Prior to his governorship,he also served as the deputy to the preceding Governor of Kano,Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi,who held office from 1979 to 1983.
Aliyu Sabo Bakin Zuwo was a Nigerian politician of the People's Redemption Party (PRP). He was a Senator in the Second Nigerian Republic and was elected governor of Kano State in October 1983,holding office briefly until the military coup on 31 December 1983 that brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power.
Air Vice-Marshal Usman Mu'azu (1942–2008) was the military governor of Kaduna State,Nigeria,from January 1984 to August 1985 during the military regime of General Muhammadu Buhari. Mu'azu was born in Kwoi,Northern Region of Nigeria,in 1942. He attended Provincial Secondary School,Zaria,and the Institute of Administration,Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria. He attended the Nigerian Defence Academy,Kaduna,and had further training in West Germany and the United States of America. Muazu served in various capacities in the Nigeria Air force,including service in the Nigeria Air force Command,Command and Staff College,Jaji and Command Training College,Kaduna. He was administrator of Nigerian Airways and Air Officer Commanding Training Command,Nigerian Air Force before being appointed military governor of Kaduna State in January 1984.
Muhammadu Inuwa Wada was a parliamentarian and minister of Works and Survey under the administration of Tafawa Balewa. He was a veteran parliamentarian towards the end of the Nigerian first republic and was given the Defense portfolio in 1965 after the death of Muhammadu Ribadu. He was first elected in 1951 as a member of the Northern House of Assembly,he was subsequently nominated to the Federal House of Representatives and was a member and later minister from 1951 to 1966. Inuwa Wada was known by many as a quiet figure in contrast to the hectic demands of his ministerial portfolio in the Works department which was going through a period of increased focus on major developmental projects as part of a six-year plan during the early 1960s.
Sadique Baba Abubakarpsc (+) DFS GSS fwc fdc(+) MSc is a retired air marshal in the Nigerian Air Force and former Chief of the Air Staff of Nigeria.
Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila was a Nigerian politician and administrator. One of the first administrators to inherit the post first republican administrative structure instituted by the military,served the Local Education Authority,Kano State Government and the Federal Government of Nigeria from 1967 to 2003 in various positions.
Blessing Liman,is a Nigerian military personnel of the Nigerian Air Force best known for being Nigeria's first female military pilot.
Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic is a tertiary education institution in Zaria Kaduna State,Nigeria. The polytechnic was established on 2 February 1989 by the Kaduna state government to provide training and development techniques in the Field of engineering,applied science,commerce and other spheres of learning. The polytechnic is one of the tertiary teaching institutions owned and managed by the Kaduna State government. The polytechnic was named after the then Nigeria's foreign minister Nuhu Bamalli. In August 2022,Barrister Abdullahi Zubair Abdullahi was appointed the new Registrar of the polytechnic.
Meristem Securities Limited is a Nigerian Capital Market Conglomerate regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),based in Lagos State,Nigeria. Formerly known as Great Africa Securities Limited and founded in 2003,the company had a change of name to Meristem in 2005. The company consists of six subsidiaries:Meristem Stockbrokers,Meristem Wealth,Meristem Registrars and Probate Services,Meristem Capital,Meristem Trustees,and Meristem Finance.
Bala Ade Dauke Gora was the first indigenous District Head in Southern Zaria and first paramount ruler of the Atyap Chiefdom,a Nigerian traditional state in southern Kaduna State,Middle Belt (central) Nigeria. He was known by the titles Kuyan Banan Zazzau and Agwatyab I.
The genesis of the 1992 Zangon Kataf crises could at least be traced to the onset of the British imperial regime in the Northern Region of Nigeria,in which the Atyap people began reporting the loss of land to the Hausas. In 1922,it was reported that a large piece of land was acquired by the Emir of Zaria,Dalhatu Uthman Yero,who failed to compensate the indigenous population of the region. In 1966,the land was provided to the Hausa trading settlement in the heart of Mabatado,called "Zangon Kataf",by the emir,Muhammad Usman. The Atyap resided within the district,in the Zaria Province of the Northern Region of,initially,British Nigeria,which became independent Nigeria. It was to remain utilized as a marketplace,where the indigenous Atyap people were banned from trading pork and beer by the settlers.
Taligan (Magamiya) is a village community in Zonzon district of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area,southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. The postal code for the village is 802143. The nearest airport to the community is the Yakubu Gowon Airport,Jos.
Zonzon is a district and a village community in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area,southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. The postal code for the area is 802138.
The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a public research university located in Zaria,Kaduna State,Nigeria. It was opened in 1962 as the University of Northern Nigeria. The university has four colleges,three schools,18 faculties,110 academic departments,17 centres,and seven institutes with over 600 professors,about 3000 academic staff and over 7000 non-teaching staff. The university has over 400 postgraduate programmes reflecting its strife to become a postgraduate studies-centred university. The university operates from two campuses in the ancient cosmopolitan city of Zaria,the Samaru Campus where the Senate Building and most of the faculties are located and the Kongo Campus,hosting the faculties of Law and Administration. It has been adjudged to be the largest university in Sub-Saharan Africa,in terms of land occupied,owing to the numerous buildings it has.
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