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.
Katagum is a town,a local government area and a traditional emirate in Bauchi State of north eastern Nigeria. The town is located on the northern bank of the Jama'are River,which is a tributary of the Hadejia. Most of the inhabitants are peoples from the Fulani,Kanuri,Karai-karai and Hausa tribes. The chief agricultural products include peanuts (groundnuts),sorghum,millet,rice,cowpeas,cotton,indigo,and gum arabic. Livestock include horses,cattle,goats,sheep,donkeys and a lot of poultry.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua;16 August 1951 –5 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007,and was sworn in on 29 May 2007.
Sam Ominyi Egwu CON is a Nigerian politician and member of People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria. He was elected Governor of Ebonyi State in the 1999 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. Dr Egwu is noted as pillar of educational development in Ebonyi state and Nigeria. He attended the University of Nigeria,Nsukka where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Agriculture in 1981. He later received a master's degrees in Agricultural from the University of Nigeria,Nsukka in 1987 and Doctorate in Agronomy from Enugu State University of Technology in 1996. He was a senior lecturer at Enugu State University of Technology and served as commissioner for education in Ebonyi state contributed to the successes recorded in education sector during his tenure as governor.
Babagana Kingibe OV GCON is a Nigerian diplomat,politician and civil servant who has held several high ranking government offices,culminating in his appointment as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation from 2007 to 2008. He spent over a decade in the Foreign Service cadre and has been in politics since the 1970s,serving six heads of state;most recently as a member of the inner circle of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Hassan Lawal Nelly CON was a Nigerian politician who served as a Minister for 7 years,,,.
Aminu Saleh was a Nigerian administrator,former Secretary to the Government of the Federation,former Finance Minister of Nigeria,and permanent secretary in the Nigerian ministry of Defense. He became the chairman of the National Qu'ranic Recitation Committee in 2006.
Chief Ojo Maduekwe was a Nigerian politician of Igbo origin,from Ohafia,Abia State.
Mohammed Namadi Sambo is a Nigerian politician who served as the vice president of Nigeria from 19 May 2010 to 29 May 2015. He previously served as governor of Kaduna State from 2007 to 2010.
Mallam Isa Yuguda is the former Governor of Bauchi State,Nigeria. He was first elected in April 2007,on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform. In April 2009,he changed allegiance from the ANPP to the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Yaguda was reelected governor on 28 April 2011.
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Nigeria.
Shettima Mustafa was a Nigerian academic and politician. After an early career in medicine,local administration,and media,Mustafa studied agriculture at university,eventually earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree. He became a commissioner in Borno State and joined the Nigerian People's Party,becoming their vice-presidential candidate in 1983. He was jailed after the military coup of December 1983 led by Muhammadu Buhari. After his release in 1985 he taught agriculture at the University of Maiduguri and became head of the Jos region of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. Mustafa served as Minister of Agriculture from 1990 to 1992,and in 2007 was appointed Minister of Defence in the cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua. In 2008 he became Minister of the Interior but left office with the 2010 dissolution of the cabinet.
Anyim Pius Anyim is a Nigerian politician who served as the 9th president of the Nigerian Senate from 2000 to 2003,he was Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) during Goodluck Jonathan presidency. He was elected Senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999 for the Ebonyi South constituency of Ebonyi State and was elected president of the Senate in August 2000.
Ebele Ofunneamaka Okeke CFR and OON is a Nigerian Civil engineer and former Head of Nigerian Civil Service.
Alhaji Gidado Idris,was a Nigerian civil servant who served as the Secretary to the Government and Head of Service of the federation in Nigeria between the year 1995-1999,during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
Mariam Yalwaji Katagum,serves as Nigeria's Minister of State for Industry,Trade and Investment. Previously,Katagum was Ambassador,Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to UNESCO.
Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa is a Nigerian politician and the current senator representing Bauchi north senatorial district,he was elected senator during the 2019 Nigeria general elections under the All Progressive Congress (APC). He is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University.
Musa Babayo is a Nigerian banker,businessman,politician,and elder states-man who was the National Secretary of the PDP National Working Committee from 2012 to 2015 prior to joining the All Progressives Congress (APC) on 15 October 2015. He was the Deputy National Secretary of the party from 2008 to 2011 before later becoming the National Secretary.
The Ahmadu Bello University is a public research university located in Zaria,Kaduna State,Nigeria. It was opened in 1962 as the University of Northern Nigeria.
The 2019 Bauchi State House of Assembly election was held on March 9,2019 to elect members of the Bauchi State House of Assembly in Nigeria. All 31 seats were up for election in the Bauchi State House of Assembly.
