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2015 Borno State Gubernatorial Election
The 2015 Borno State gubernatorial election occurred on April 11, 2015. Incumbent Governor APC's Kashim Shettima won election for a second term, defeating PDP's Gambo Lawan and several minor party candidates. Shettima received 94.92% of the vote. Kashim Shettima emerged unopposed in the APC gubernatorial primary after all the aspirants stepped down. He retained his deputy, Zannah Mustapha, as his running mate. Gambo Lawan was the PDP candidate. Electoral system The Governor of Borno State is elected using the plurality voting system. Primary election APC primary The APC primary election was held on in the evening of Friday, December 4, 2014, at the Elkanemi Sports Centre in Maiduguri, with a total of 4,520 delegates present from all wards of the state's 27 LGAs. Incumbent governor, Kashim Shettima, became the party's sole candidate after other aspirants stepped down for him days before. Candidates *Party nominee: Kashim Shettima: Incumbent governor. *Running mate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashim Shettima
Kashim Shettima Mustapha (born 2 September 1966) is a Nigerian banker and politician who has served as Senator for Borno Central since 2019. He previously served as the Governor of Borno State from 2011 to 2019. A member of the All Progressives Congress, he is the party's vice presidential nominee in the 2023 presidential election running alongside Bola Tinubu. Kashim Shettima graduated from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Ibadan. After schooling, he entered business and banking, eventually rising to hold several high-ranking executive positions at banks. By the mid-2000s, Shettima was the manager of Zenith Bank's Maiduguri office before leaving the position to enter the state cabinet of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff in 2007. After four years in the cabinet, he was elected governor in 2011 and re-elected by a wider margin in 2015; his term in office was dominated by the deadly Boko Haram insurgency. Shettima was later elected to the senate. Despite being renomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayo, Nigeria
Bayo is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town Fikayel. It has an area of 956 km and a population of 78,978 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 603. It is one of the four LGAs that constitute the Biu Emirate, a traditional state Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. The main reason for the given state of affairs is that " things have always been that way".Reinhard Bendi ... located in Borno State, Nigeria. References Local Government Areas in Borno State Populated places in Borno State {{BornoNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magumeri
Magumeri is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Magumeri. It has an area of 4,856 km and a population of 140,231 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 602. It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the Borno Emirate, a traditional state Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. The main reason for the given state of affairs is that " things have always been that way".Reinhard Bendi ... located in Borno State, Nigeria. References Local Government Areas in Borno State Populated places in Borno State {{BornoNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwaya Kusar
Kwaya Kusar is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kwaya Kusar. It has an area of 732 km and a population of 56,500 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 603. The inhabitants speak the Bura language Bura-Pabir (also known as Bura, Burra, Bourrah, Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a Chadic language spoken in North-eastern Nigeria by the Babur/Bura people. Dialects are Pela, Bura Pela, Hill Bura, Hyil Hawul, .... They are mostly subsistence farmers. It is one of the four LGAs that constitute the Biu Emirate, a traditional state located in Borno State, Nigeria. References Local Government Areas in Borno State Populated places in Borno State {{bornoNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kukawa
Kukawa (previously Kuka) is a town and Local Government Area in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, close to Lake Chad. The town was founded in 1814 as capital of the Kanem-Bornu Empire by the Muslim scholar and warlord Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi after the fall of the previous capital, Ngazargamu. The town had great strategical importance, being one of the southern terminals of trans-Saharan trade routes to Tripoli. The town was visited by German explorer Heinrich Barth in 1851 who arrived from Tripoli seeking to open trade with Europe and explore Africa, and again in 1892 by the French explorer Parfait-Louis Monteil, who was checking the borders between areas of West Africa assigned to the French and the British. The town was captured and sacked in 1893 by the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr, and then by the British in 1902. Historically the city was much larger than today, with a population estimated by the British at 50,000-60,000 in the late nineteenth-century. Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kala/Balge
Kala/Balge is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. It is the easternmost LGA of Nigeria. It has itd headquarters in the town of Rann. Landscape It has an area of 1,896 km Population and a population of 60,797 at the 2006 census. Postal Code The postal code of the area is 611. History It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the Dikwa Emirate, a traditional state located in Borno State, Nigeria. Insurgency On May 14, 2014, local civilian vigilantes repelled a raid by the terrorist group Boko Haram Boko Haram, officially known as ''Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād'' ( ar, جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit=Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad), is an Islamic terrorist organization ..., killing over 200 militants. On May 31, 500 Boko Haram terrorists returned and overwhelmed the vigilantes killing 40. References Local Government Areas in Borno State {{bornoNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaga, Nigeria
Kaga is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Benisheikh. It has an area of 2,700 km and a population of 90,015 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 601. It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the Borno Emirate, a traditional state Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. The main reason for the given state of affairs is that " things have always been that way".Reinhard Bendi ... located in Borno State, Nigeria. References Local Government Areas in Borno State {{bornoNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jere, Borno
Jere is a Local government areas of Nigeria, local government area of Borno State, Nigeria. It has its headquarters in the town of Khaddamari. London ciki is a community in Jere under maimusari ward. Landscape It has an area of 868 km. Population Jere had a population of 211,204 at the 2006 census. Most of the people in Jere are from the Arabic tribes Baggara and kanuri. Postal code The postal code of the area is 600. History It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the Borno Emirate, a Nigerian traditional states, traditional state located in Borno State, Nigeria. References Local Government Areas in Borno State {{bornoNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwoza
Gwoza is a local government area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gwoza, a border town "about 135 kilometres South-East of Maiduguri." The postal code of the area is 610. The terrain is rocky and hilly. The Gwoza Hills, with heights of about 1300m above sea level provides scenery and is made up of the Mandara Mountains, which form a natural barrier between Nigeria and Cameroon, starting from Pulka. They overlook the game reserves by meandering towards Mubi and beyond in Adamawa State. The Gwoza LGA has been called "a notorious hide out for the Boko Haram insurgents," who arrived in the area in 2009 from Maiduguri. The area has suffered considerable violence as a result of the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria, and in 2014, saw an influx of Boko Haram fighters fleeing Sambisa Forest. , "reports indicated that the whole of Gwoza was under attack. The report could not be substantiated because most telephone masts in Gwoza and surrounding villages have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guzamala
Guzamala is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gudumbali. It's located approximately 125 kilometres north of the state capital, Maiduguri. It has an area of 2,517 km and a population of 95,648 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 612. It is a part of the traditional Borno Emirate. This Local Government Area is located very close to the northern axis of Borno state. It is bordered by six LGAs. These LGAs are Mobber, Gubio, Nganzal, Monguno, Kukawa and Abadan LGAs. Wards It has 10 local wards. They are:- Aduwa, Gudumbali East, Gudumbali West, Guworam, Guzamala East, Guzamala West, kingarwa, Maijari, Moduri, Wamiri. The Kanuri ethnic group lives in the LGA. It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the Borno Emirate, a traditional state Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. The main reason for the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gubio
Gubio, also Gobiyo, is a Local Government Area of Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gubio. It has an area of 2,464 km and a population of 152,778 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 602. The primary road through Gubio runs north towards Damasak and south towards Maiduguri. Gubio is about 60 miles from each of those two settlements. It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the Borno Emirate, a traditional state located in Borno State, Nigeria. Massacre On 9 June 2020, a group of gunmen killed 81 people in a massacre. The killers are believed to be from the jihadist group Boko Haram, whose insurgency An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion against authority waged by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare from primarily rural base areas. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irr ... began in 2009. References {{LGAs of Borno State Local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
