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Nigerian National Assembly Delegation From Sokoto
The Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Sokoto State, Sokoto comprises three Senate of Nigeria, Senators representing Sokoto North, Sokoto East, and Sokoto West, and eleven Nigerian House of Representatives, Representatives representing Sokoto North/Sokoto South, Binji/Silame, Wurno/Rabah, Isa-Sabon-Birni, Gwadaba/Illiza, Kware/Wamakko, Gudu/Tangaza, Kebbe/Tambuwal, Gorondo/Gada, Bodinga/Dange-Shuni/Tureta, and Shagari/Yabo. Nigerian Fourth Republic, Fourth Republic 9th Assembly (2019-2023) The 4th Parliament (1999 - 2003) ReferencesOfficial Website - National Assembly Senators (Sokoto State) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070413054700/http://www.nigeriacongress.org/senate/senatorlist.asp Senator List] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sokoto State Delegation Sokoto State National Assembly (Nigeria) delegations by state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian National Assembly
The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature established under section 4 of the Nigerian Constitution. It consists of a Senate with 109 members and a 360-member House of Representatives. The body, modeled after the federal Congress of the United States, is supposed to guarantee equal representation with 3 senators to each 36 states irrespective of size in the Senate plus 1 senator representing the Federal Capital Territory and single-member district, plurality voting in the House of Representatives. The National Assembly, like many other organs of the Nigerian federal government, is based in Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory. Leadership The Senate is chaired by the president of the Nigerian Senate, the first of whom was Nnamdi Azikiwe, who stepped down from the job to become the country's first head of state. The House is chaired by the speaker of the House of Representatives. At any joint session of the Assembly, the president of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismaila Usman Balarabe
Ismaila is a town and Union Council of Swabi District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 34°13'0N 72°15'0E Its population is about 60,000. There is a government high school for girls and secondary school for boys. Kernel Sher Khan Cadet college is located here. There is also a basic health unit in the town. Ismaila is very famous for Chapli Kabab and Faiq Lobia farosh. Crops like wheat, maize and rice are grown here and the lands are aggregated by the Malakand Canal. Within about a 10 km radius from Ismaila, there are several archaeological sites. The village of Hund had been the capital of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Arzika
Mohammed Arzika was appointed Nigerian Minister of Communications from June 1999 to June 2001 in the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo. He died after a brief illness on 9 June 2015. Background Mohammed Arzika was born in Tambuwal, Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Nigeria on 21 April 1943 to Alhaji Usman Nabungudu and Hajiya Bilikisu. He attended Tambuwal Primary School from 1951–1953, Sokoto Middle School from 1953- 1955 and Provincial Secondary School (Nagarta College) from 1955-1961. He also attended Barewa College from 1962–1963 and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Institute of Administration where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration from 1964–1967. Arzika joined the Federal Civil Service in 1967 and served in various ministries and offices of the Federal Government. He was Assistant Secretary, Federal Ministry of Mines and Power 1967–1968, Assistant Secretary, Federal Civil Service Commission 1968–1969, Assistant Secretar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakari Muhammed Shinaka
Abdul Aziz Zakari (born September 2, 1976) is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He was born in Accra, Ghana. Participating in the 2000 Summer Olympics, he made it to the final of the 100 metres, but failed to finish after becoming injured at about the 35m mark. Also participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved second place in his 100 metres heat, thus making it through to the second round. Heading into the second round, he was victorious in a tough sprint, before achieving qualification from his semi-final. This good form was not able to continue, as he failed to finish in the final, staged on August 22, renowned as possibly the fastest collective 100 metre race in history, where six of the seven finishing athletes completed the race in ten seconds or less. He finally, for the first time, achieved a sub-10 second run on June 14, 2005, in Athens when he ran 9.99 seconds in Asafa Powell's world record breaking race. The Ghanaian record currently belongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliyu Umar Sanyinna
Aliyu is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Aliyu Abubakar, Nigerian politician * Aliyu Abubakar (footballer) (born 1996), Nigerian footballer *Aliyu Attah, Nigerian police officer * Aliyu Babba (died 1926), Emir of Kano * Aliyu Bawa (born 1991), Nigerian footballer * Aliyu Doma (born 1942), Nigerian politician * Aliyu Ibrahim, Nigerian footballer *Aliyu Kama (born 1949), Nigerian general * Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (born 1943), Nigerian Army officer * Aliyu Mai-Bornu (1919–1970), Nigerian economist * Aliyu Musa (born 1957), Nigerian politician * Aliyu Obaje (1920–2012), Nigerian traditional ruler * Aliyu Okechukwu (born 1995), Nigerian footballer *Aliyu Modibbo Umar (born 1958), Nigerian politician *Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko (born 1953), Nigerian politician Surname *Abdullahi Aliyu, Nigerian civil servant * Akilu Aliyu (1918–1999), Nigerian poet, writer, scholar and politician *Dabo Aliyu (born 1947), Nigerian politician *Hadiza Aliy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arewa S
Arewa or Arewaland is a Hausa word which means "The North". The term is used to refer to Northern Nigeria general. The terms ' (literally "north") and ' (literally "Northern Nigeria") are used in Hausa to refer to the historic region geopolitically located north of the River Niger. The continued use of the term, ''Arewa'' ... has conjured up an image among educated Northerners that resonated far beyond the institutional structures Sir Ahmadu Bello created: the successor to the Bornu and Sokoto Caliphate; the vision of God's Empire in the region; the universality of its claim to suzerainty; and in a more prosaic but no less powerful sense, the concept of a polity with an emphasis on unity and sense of shared purpose in northern West Africa beyond the popular slogan--'one North, one People'. In the history of Nigeria specifically, it is used to refer to the pre-1967 Northern Region, Nigeria. In Niger, it has a very specific meaning: a small pre-colonial animist dominated state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Usman (Nigerian Politician)
Mohammed Usman may refer to: * Mohammed Usman (general), Nigerian general * Mohammed Usman (footballer, born 1980), Nigerian footballer for Kwara United F.C. * Mohammed Usman (footballer, born 1994), Nigerian footballer for Sarpsborg 08 * Mohammed Usman (MMA Fighter, Born 1989), Nigerian Heavyweight UFC Fighter * Muhammed Usman Edu Yusuf Mohammed Usman Edu (born 2 March 1994) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Israeli club Maccabi Bnei Reineh. Career International On 22 May, 2018 GOtvMaxCup match played on Tuesday, the Super Eagles were beaten 3-2 by Europa League ... (born 1994), Nigerian footballer See also * Mohammad Usman (other) {{hndis, Usman, Mohammed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zubairu S
Zubairu is a Nigerian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abdul Zubairu (born 1998), Nigerian footballer *Idris Zubairu Idris Zubairu is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: he is the current Bishop of Bari, one of ten dioceses within the Anglican Province of Kaduna, itself one of 14 provinces within the Church of Nigeria The Church of Nigeria is the Anglicanism, An ..., Anglican bishop in Nigeria * Tanko Zubairu, 20th century Nigerian military administrator {{surname Surnames of African origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sule Yari Gandi
Sule may refer to: * Sule (river), a river of Lower Saxony, Germany * Sule Skerry, a skerry in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland * Sule Stack, a stack in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland * Punta Sulè, a mountain of the Graian Alps in Italy * Sule, a former name of Kashgar, an oasis city in western Xinjiang, China * Sule Pagoda, a pagoda in Myanmar People with the name * Abdel Rahman Sule, South Sudanese politician * Abdul Sule (born 1975), former Nigerian football player and current Player Agent * Abdullahi Sule (born 1959), Nigerian entrepreneur, businessman and politician * Anselmo Sule (1934–2002), Chilean politician, member of the Radical Party and afterwards of the Social Democrat Radical Party * Baba Sule (born 1978), Ghanaian retired footballer * Cole Shade Sule (born 1980), Cameroonian former swimmer * Fuad Sule (born 1997), Irish-Nigerian professional footballer * Gustav Sule (1910–1942), Estonian javelin thrower * Harvey Alexand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mukhtar Dikko
A mukhtar ( ar, مختار, mukhtār, chosen one; el, μουχτάρης) is a village chief in the Levant The Levant () is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is eq ...: "an old institution that goes back to the time of the Ottoman rule". According to Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, the mukhtar "for centuries were the central figures". They "were not restricted to Muslim communities" where even non-Arab "Christian and Jewish communities in the Arab world also had mukhtars." Quoting Tore Björgo: "The mukhtar was, among other things, responsible for collecting taxes and ensuring that law and order was prevailing in his village". See also * Kodjabashi References External links * Arabic words and phrases Ottoman Empire {{Ottoman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)
The Peoples Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every presidential election between 1999 and 2011 and was, until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic, although sometimes amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. History In 1998, the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria nominated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May 1999. In the legislative election held on 12 April 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
