Kafin Madaki is the headquarters of
Ganjuwa Local Government Area of
Bauchi State,
Nigeria.
It is a small town of about 20,000 people some 45 km north of
Bauchi
Bauchi (earlier Yakoba) 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 ...
.
The economy is based primarily on farming, with cottage industries in weaving, iron-working, soap-making and brick-making. Water supply is based on boreholes.
In March 2008 the Bauchi state government started reconstruction of the General Hospital at Kafin Madaki, which had fallen into disrepair.
The state Commissioner of Health inspected the construction of the new hospital in May 2010, and announced plans to hire additional medical personnel.
In September 2009, Bauchi state governor
Isa Yuguda
Mallam Isa Yuguda (born 15 June 1956) was 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 P ...
agreed to implement a plan laid out by his predecessor
Adamu Mu'azu to turn the 52-year-old
Yankari Game Reserve into an international ecotourism destination.
The plan included housing about 300 "foreign" animals from Namibia including Giraffe, Eland, Kudu, Impala and Zebra in an area of about eight square kilometres near Kafin Madaki.
This area was highlighted in the 2018 film
Up North.
References
Populated places in Bauchi State
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