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David Umaru
David Umaru (born 26 July 1959) is a Nigerian Politician, and was the Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District of Niger State at the Nigerian 7th National Assembly and 8th National Assembly. Early life and education Umaru was born in Kuta, headquarters of Shiroro Local Government in Niger State. He attended Methodist Primary School, Zaria. He proceeded to St. Paul’s College, Zaria. In 1980, he obtained his LLB at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He was called to bar at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. Polictical career Umaru participated and won the March 28, 2015 Niger East senatorial district senatorial election and was a member of the Nigerian 8th National Assembly. On February 7, 2019, the Federal High Court, Abuja, removed David Umaru, as the Niger East Senatorial district candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 23, 2019 election, agreeing that Sani Mohammed Musa was the declared winner of the primary election the APC conducted in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niger East Senatorial District
Niger East Senatorial District, known as Zone B within Niger State in Nigeria, Covers 9 local governments which include: # Bosso local government area # Chanchaga local government area # Munya local government area # Paiko local government area # Rafi local government area # Shiroro local government area # Suleja local government area # Tafa local government area # Gurara local government area. Niger East Senate district has 90 electoral wards. Mohammed Sani Musa of the All Progressive Congress, APC is the current representative of Niger East Senate District. List of senators representing Niger East {, class="wikitable" , + !Senators !Party !Year !Assembly !Electoral history , - , Ibrahim Kuta , PDP , 1999 - 2007 , 4th 5th , , - , Dahiru Awaisu Kuta , PDP , 2007 - 2011 , 6th , Died during his term in 2014 , - , David Umaru , APC , 2011 2019 , 7th 8th 9th , Sacked from the Senate by Supreme Court in November 2019, few months into his third term i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiroro
Shiroro is a Local Government Area in Niger State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Kuta, which has fifteen 5wards as follows: #Allawa #Bangajiya #Bassa/kukoki #Egwa/gwada #Erena #Galkogo #Gurmana #Gussoro #Kato #Kushaka/kurebe #Kwaki/chukuba #Manta #Pina #She #Ubandoma and their major language is Gbagyi. It has an area of and a population of 235,404 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 921. See also *Shiroro Airstrip *Shiroro Hydroelectric Power Station *List of dams and reservoirs in Nigeria Dams and reservoirs in Nigeria are used for irrigation, water supply, hydro - electric power generation or a combination of these. They are of particular importance in the northern part of the country, where there is low rainfall. ] ThNiger Da ... References Local Government Areas in Niger State {{NigerNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive archipelago ( Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Niger State
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Nigeria National Assembly
The 8th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was a bicameral legislature inaugurated on June 9, 2015 and the assembly ran its course until June 9, 2019. Composition The assembly comprises the Senate and the House of Representatives. The National Assembly comprises 469 members elected across the 6 geopolitical zones of Nigeria. The House of Representative consists of 360 members and the Senate, a total of 109 members from which 59 were elected on the platform of the APC and 49 were elected on the platform of People's Democratic Party following the sudden death of Senator Ahmed Zanna elected on the platform of PDP to represent Borno Central. Only six of the senators were women. The women elected were Stella Oduah and Uche Ekwunife who both represent Anambra, Monsurat Sunmonu from Oyo state, Fatimat Raji Rasaki, Grace Okoji Oku, Oluremi Tinubu and Binta Garba. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachelor Of Laws
Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong S.A.R., Macau S.A.R., Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Pakistan, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Israel, Brazil, Tanzania, Zambia, and many other jurisdictions. In the United States, the Bachelor of Laws was also the primary law degree historically, but was phased out in favour of the Juris Doctor degree in the 1960s. Canadian practice followed suit in the first decade of the 21st century, phasing out the Bachelor of Laws for the Juris Doctor. History of academic degrees The first academic degrees were all law degrees in medieval universities, and the first law degrees were doctorates. The foundations of the first universities were the glossators of the 11th century, which were also schools of law. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th National Assembly
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8th National Assembly may refer to: * 8th National Assembly of France * 8th National Assembly of Laos * 8th National Assembly of Nigeria * 8th National Assembly of Pakistan * 8th National Assembly of Serbia * 8th National Assembly of Slovenia * 8th National Assembly of South Korea * 8th National Assembly of Vietnam 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sani Mohammed Musa
Mohammed Sani Musa CON (born 11 May 1965) is a Nigerian politician and the senator representing the Niger East Senatorial District of Niger State at the Nigerian 9th National Assembly. Biography Mohammed Sani Musa was born in the northern part of Nigeria on June 11, 1965, in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. The social media bill controversy On November 5, 2019, the Nigerian Senate re-introduced a bill that sought to regulate the use of social media in the country, leading to public outrage. The bill, " Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019" was one of the 11 bills read for the first time at the floor of the house that day. Musa sponsored the proposed legislation. Sponsorship of the bill Musa said, in regards to individuals who post false information on the internet, that the "penalty for defaulters goes up to N300,000 for individuals and up to N10 million for corporate organisations and imprisonment of up to three years or both." Musa also lamented that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th National Assembly
7th National Assembly may refer to: * 7th National Assembly of France * 7th National Assembly of Laos * 7th National Assembly of Namibia * 7th National Assembly of Nigeria * 7th National Assembly of Pakistan * 7th National Assembly of Serbia * 7th National Assembly of Slovenia * 7th National Assembly of South Korea 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ... * 7th National Assembly of Vietnam {{set index ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niger State
Niger is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria and the largest state in the country. Niger state has three political zones, zone A,B and C. The state's capital is at Minna. Other major cities are Bida, Kontagora and Suleja. It was formed in 1976 when the then North-Western State was divided into Niger State and Sokoto State. It is home to Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, two of Nigeria's former military rulers. The Nupe, Gbagyi, Kamuku, Kambari, Gungawa, Hun-Saare, Hausa and Koro form the majority of numerous indigenous tribes of Niger State. The state is named after the River Niger. Two of Nigeria's major hydroelectric power stations, the Kainji Dam and Shiroro Dam, are located in Niger State, along with the new Zungeru Dam. The Jebba Dam straddles the border of Niger state and Kwara state. The famous Gurara Falls is in Niger State, and Gurara Local Government Area is named after the Gurara River, on whose course the fall is situated. Also situated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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