Major Gideon Gwaza Orkar was a Nigerian military officer who staged an attempted violent coup against the government of General Ibrahim Babangida on April 22,1990. Orkar and his conspirators seized the FRCN radio station,various military posts around Lagos and the Dodan Barracks,Lagos,the military headquarters and presidential Villa. Babangida was present when the barracks were attacked but managed to escape by a back route.
Abubakar Dangiwa Umar was governor of Kaduna state in Nigeria from August 1985 to June 1988 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. After retiring from the army in 1993,he became a social critic and the founder of Movement for Unity and Progress,a political party.
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.
Barrister (Colonel) Yohanna Anteyan Madaki (1941–2006) was Governor of Gongola State and then of Benue State,Nigeria during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
Garba Duba was a Nigerian Army Lieutenant general who was Governor of Bauchi State,Nigeria from July 1978 to October 1979 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo,and Administrator of Sokoto State from January 1984 to August 1985 during the military regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
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.
Mohammed Chris Alli was a Nigerian Army major general who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1993 to 1994 under General Sani Abacha's regime and was military governor of Plateau State Nigeria from August 1985 to 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. Many years later,he was appointed interim administrator of the state during a 2004 crisis in the state following ethno-religious killings in Shendam,Yelwa Local Government.
Alhaji Mohammed Dabo Lere was a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Kaduna State from January 1992 to November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic,leaving office after the military coup that brought General Sani Abacha to power.
Joshua Mamman Madaki was Governor of Bauchi State,Nigeria from December 1987 to August 1990 and then of Plateau State from August 1990 to January 1992 during the military regime of Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
John Yahaya Madaki (?–2018) was military governor of Katsina State,Nigeria in December 1989,during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. He handed over to the elected civilian governor Saidu Barda in January 1992 at the start of the Nigerian Third Republic.
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.
Bala Achi was a renowned Niɡerian historian,writer and academic.
Dominic Gambo Yahaya is the current monarch of Atyap Chiefdom,a Nigerian traditional state in southern Kaduna State,Nigeria. He is known by the title Agwatyap III.
Bakulu people are a people found in Zangon Kataf,Kachia and Kauru Local Government Areas of southern Kaduna State of Middle Belt,Nigeria. They speak a Plateau language called Kulu. They call their land Akulu.
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.
Ashong Ashyui (Jankasa) is a village community in Jei District of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area,southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. The postal code for the village is 802141. The area has an altitude of about 2,798 feet or 852 meters and a population of about 7,837. The nearest airport to the community is the Yakubu Gowon Airport,Jos.
Kanai is a district as well as a village in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. The postal code of the area is 802139.
The Atyap Community Development Association (ACDA),is a sociocultural organisation established to promote the interests of the Atyap people of Southern Kaduna,Nigeria. The organization,earlier known as the "Kataf Youth Development Association" (KYDA) was established in 1989,but later renamed in 2010 to its present name.
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