Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was a Nigerian politician who served as the first and only prime minister of Nigeria upon independence. A conservative Anglophile,he favoured maintaining close ties with the British. During his first few years in office as prime minister,Nigeria was a constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II reigning as Queen of Nigeria,until Nigeria became a republic in 1963. He was both a defender of Northern special interests and an advocate of Nigerian reform and unity.
Overland Airways is an airline based in Ikeja in Lagos State,Nigeria. Its main base is Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja,with a hub at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
Bauchi is a city in northeast Nigeria,the Administrative center of Bauchi State,of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State,and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate. It is located on the northern edge of the Jos Plateau,at an elevation of 616 m. The Local Government Area covers an area of 3,687 km2 and had a population of 493,810 in 2006.
Bauchi State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria,bordered by Jigawa to the north,Yobe to the northeast,Gombe to the east,Taraba and Plateau to the south,Kaduna to the west and Kano to the northwest. It takes its name from the historic town of Bauchi,which also serves as its capital city. The state was formed in 1976 when the former North-Eastern State was broken up. It originally included the area that is now Gombe State,which became a distinct state in 1996.
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) is a federal university of technology located in Bauchi,north eastern part of Nigeria. The university is named after the first and only Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. The motto of the university is "Doctrina Mater Artium",which means "Education is the mother of the practical arts".
Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is Nigerian politician who has served as governor of Bauchi State since 2019. Prior to becoming governor of Bauchi State,he was minister of the Federal Capital Territory from 2010 to 2015,and Senator for Bauchi South from 2007 to 2010. He is a ranking member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
Chris Abutu Garuba was Governor of Bauchi State,Nigeria from August 1985 to December 1988 during the military regime of Major General Ibrahim Babangida. He was born in Ipole,Otukpa Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State.
Tafawa Balewa is a local government area in the Southern part of Bauchi State in northern Nigeria. Its headquarters was in the town of Tafawa Balewa,but has no being shifted to Bununu town in 2011 due to constant unrest in the former.
Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir is a Nigerian politician who was Senator for Sokoto East from 2011 to 2023. He was the Senate Majority Leader from July 2022 to July 2023.
Danladi Slim Matawal is a Nigerian professor of Civil engineering and the Director-General of the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI),an agency under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology.
The Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria (ICCON) is a professional regulatory body established under Decree 91 of 1993,now known as the ICCON ACT,CAP I.12 LFN 2004. Its statutory mandate includes regulating the teaching,learning,and professional practice of Chemistry in Nigeria. ICCON operates as a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH).
Laraba Gambo Abdullahi is a Nigerian chemist and administrator who was Vice-chancellor of the University of Abuja from 1999 to 2004. Abdullahi has held many political appointments during her career. She was recently the director of the National Board for Technology Incubation,a government tool to promote commercialization of research ideas generated by and in Nigerian universities.
Muhammad Sanusi Liman is a distinguished Nigerian academic,a professor of plasma physics and the second substantive Vice Chancellor of Federal University Lafia,Nasarawa state.
Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai is a Nigerian politician. He currently serves as the Senator representing Yobe South Senatorial District in the 10th National Assembly. He was initially elected in 2019 and was subsequently reelected in the 2023 Yobe South Senatorial District Election.
Liman Alhaji Ibrahim is the current Controller General of Fire Service of Nigeria,and was born to family of Alhaji Abdulrahman Ndabida in Baro,Agaie Local Government,Area Niger State,his father was 4th Imam of Baro,Agaie Liman was also Waziri of Baro and he's erudite scholar that developed in academical
Salihu Mustafa, FNSE,FAENG,FNAHS,FAS,is a Nigerian academic,professor of civil engineering and former Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Yola (FUTY),Yola,Adamawa State,Nigeria. He has taught in many universities in Nigeria and is currently a visiting professor to Kebbi State University of Science and Technology,Aliero and Usmanu Danfodiyo University,Sokoto. He is married to Hajiya Fatima and they have four children.
Dr. Josiah Tagwai Kantiyok is the second indigenous monarch of Fantswam (Kafanchan) Chiefdom,a Nigerian traditional state in southern Kaduna State of Nigeria. He was crowned as Agwam Zikpak II by the state government although his predecessor was Agwam Fantswam I.
The Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education is a state government higher education institution located in Kangere,Bauchi State,Nigeria. The current provost is Adamu Magaji Yanbuga.
Suleiman Elias Bogoro is a professor of Animal Science,specializing in Biochemistry and Ruminant Nutrition,who served as the 5th and 8th Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund in Nigeria.
Tafawa Balewa's tomb is the burial place of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,the only Prime Minister of Nigeria,in Bauchi,Bauchi State,Nigeria.
