the government of jigawa
Born 53 years ago in Babura town, Muhammadu Badaru went to the Babura Central Primary School, in 1970 and proceeded to the famous Rumfa College, Kano from where he went for his A levels at the School of Basic Studies at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1981 and got admitted into the University to graduate with a Bachelor Of Science Degree, Accountancy in 1985, in 2006, Alhaji Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar also went to the prestigious National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies, (NIPSS), Kuru Jos. .

From the year 2000 to date, the Businessman turned politician was variously the President, Jigawa state Chamber Of Commerce Industries Mines And Agriculture, President Nigeria Association Of Chambers Of Commerce, Industries, Mines And Agriculture (NACCIMA), president Nigeria – Niger chambers of commerce, President Northern States Chamber of Commerce, Chairman Board Of Trustees Northern States Chamber Of Commerce, and Chairman National Association of Road Transport Owners Jigawa State.

Alhaji Badaru Abubakar had equally being a member in various organizations and institutions that are mostly industrial which include Presidential Advisory Committee on Industrial Revolution Plan, Nigeria/America Chambers Of Commerce, Nigeria Institute Of Industrialist & Corporate Administration, Board Member Nigeria – Belgium Chambers Of Commerce, National Privatization Council, National Council on NSME and served as Member National Conference of 2014.

He once served as a Director with the Africa Merchant Bank Limited and Bank of the North Limited, now Unity Bank Plc, and the patron of the Rice Farmers association, Kano and the Nigeria union of journalist, Jigawa state.

jigawa state

Creation: Jigawa State was created on Tuesday, August 27, 1991.

Capital: Dutse

Major Cities: Auyo, Babura, Biriniwa, Birnin Kudu, Buji, Dutse, Gagarawa, Garki

Geographic Profile: Jigawa State called "The New World", was excised from Kano State and covers a total land area of about 22,410 square kilometres. It is situated precisely in the north-western part of Nigeria, between latitudes 11.00°N to 13.00°N and longitudes 8.00°E to 10.15°E, Jigawa State is bordered on the west by Kano and Katsina States, on the east by Bauchi and Yobe States and on the north by Katsina State and an international border with Zinder Region in the Republic of Niger.

Economic Profile: Jigawa State is largely characterized by informal sector activities with agriculture as the major economic activity. Over eighty percent (80%) of the people from this State engage in subsistence farming and animal husbandry. Food crops produced in the State include maize, millet and guinea corn. While cash crops like cotton and groundnut are also produced. There are so many industrial enterprises in the State and these industries operate mostly with raw materials produced locally. These are in form of agriculture and livestock, and so trade and commerce in the State is hinged on small and medium scale, especially in agricultural goods, livestock and other consumer goods.

Ethnic Profile: The rich cultural heritage of the people is reflected in their mode of dressing, music, dance, craftsmanship, hospitality, food processing and pattern of settlement. Hausa culture and tradition have overshadowed others but the Fulani, Mangawa, Ngizimawa and Badawa still maintain their culture and tradition in their areas of concentration.

Occupation: Arts,crafts and livestock production play a dominant role in the socio-economic well being of the people, as it provides gainful employment, and compliment the economic life of farming families.

Local Government Area(LGAs): (27) Local Government Areas (LGAs) namely: Auyo, Babura, Biriniwa, Birnin Kudu, Buji, Dutse, Gagarawa, Garki, Gumel, Guri, Gwaram, Gwiwa, Hadejia, Jahun, Kafin Hausa, Kaugama, Kazaure, Kiri Kasama, Kiyawa, Maigatari, Malam Madori, Miga, Ringim, Roni, Sule Tankarkar, Taura and Yankwashi.

katsina township stadium and roads

katsina culture and toursm

katsina roads and government house entrance

Water Resources:
The State is blessed with abundant underground water, dams and streams, which are used for domestic purposes as well as dry season farming. Some of these dams include Zobe Dam in Dutsinma Local Government Area, Ajiwa Dam in Batagarawa Local Government Area, Sabke Dam in Mai’adua Local Government Area, Jibia Dam in Jibia Local Government Area and Mairuwa and Gwagwaye Dams in Funtua Local Government Area and a host of others.

Financial Institutions:
Almost all the major financial institutions in the Country are represented in the State. There is also a branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the State Capital.

Power Supply:
Nearly 90% of the towns and villages in the State have been connected to the National Grid. At present, there is a Wind Power Generating Project at Marabar Rimi, which is expected to produce 10 megawatts of electricity. The project is the first of its kind in the Federation.

Telecommunication Services:
These include MTN, Airtel, Etisalat, Glo, e.t.c. Beside this, there are also courier services in the State complementing private telecommunication companies respectively.
1.10MW wind enegy in katsina
2&3 Katsina airport

Climate and Vegetation: of katsina
The State extends from the tropical grassland known as the Savannah to Arid Zone to the North. Like any other part of the tropics, there are two main seasons; wet and dry season. Rainy season is larger in the southern part of the State where it lasts up to five months, while in the northern part of the State it lasts for four months. The average temperature of the State is between 21 – 30 degrees centigrade.

The creation of the State in 1987 brought with it the usual increase in the volume of economic and social activities attendant to
a new State. The major crops produced in the State are millet, guinea corn, groundnut, cotton, maize, beans, rice and wheat. The State is the largest producer of cotton in Nigeria. Livestock production is also a major occupation of the people.

Mineral Resources
Different types of mineral resources are bound in many locations across the State. The major once include: Gold, Uranium, Iron ore,. Nikel, Asbestos, Kaolin, Silica Sands, Fire Clay, Lead Oxide, Manganese, Ball Clay and various types of precious stones.

Occupation of the people
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people of Katsina State for almost every (male) is engaged in some form of agriculture.

Farming is mostly practiced in the traditional way using traditional implements such as hoe and ox-driven plough. Modern farming is equally gaining ground in the State with large-scale farming. The crops grown in the State include, Millets, Guinea Corn, Groundnut, Maize, Cotton, Rice, Yam, Cassava, Sugar cane and Soya beans. Animal husbandry is another occupation in the State. This is why the State has abundant meat and milk. Not only those, vegetables are grown in abundance. Vegetables such as tomatoes, onions, lotus and pepper.

A part from Agriculture, craft works is another traditional occupation of the people of Katsina State. These include Cloth Weaving, Iron works, Pottery and Ceramics, Leather works, Wood and Calabash carvings and Raffia works.

Major Industries:
The State has a number of industries such as the Dana Steel formerly Katsina Steel Rolling Company, Saulawa Machines and Fabrication Factory, Hamada Carpets, Funtua Textiles, Shema Industries Dutsin-ma, Funtua Cotton Seeds Crushing Company, Katsina Oil Mill, Funtua Bottling Company, Northern Dairies Funtua, Funtua Burnt Bricks Factory, Kankara Kaolin Processing Company, Funtua Cotton Ginnery, Malumfashi Cotton Ginnery, Katsina Flour Mills, e.t.c.

Emir of katsina
The Katsina Royal Palace 'Gidan Korau' is a huge complex located in the centre of the ancient city. It is a symbol of culture, history and traditions of 'Katsinawa'. According to historical account, it was built in 1348 AD by Muhammadu Korau, who is believed to have been the first Muslim King of Katsina. This explains why it is traditionally known as 'Gidan Korau' (House of Korau). It is one of the oldest and among the first generation palaces in Hausaland, along with Daura, Kano and Zazzau. The palace was encircled with a rampart, 'Ganuwar Gidan Sarki' (which is now gone). The main gate which leads to the palace is known as 'Kofar Soro', while the gate at the backyard is called 'Kofar Bai' (now gone). The Emir's residential quarters at the epicenter of the Palace is a large compound built in the typical Hausa traditional architectural style.[6] The current Emir of Katsina is Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman.

1 the Emir
2. the emir flnked by Mr. President and the Governor
3 the emir during a public function

emirate of katsina
Katsina, historic kingdom and emirate in northern Nigeria. According to tradition, the kingdom, one of the Hausa Bakwai (“Seven True Hausa States”), was founded in the 10th or 11th century. Islām was introduced in the 1450s, and Muhammad Korau (reigned late 15th century) was Katsina’s first Muslim king. During his reign camel caravans crossed the Sahara from Ghudāmis (Ghadames), Tripoli, and Tunis southward to Katsina and brought such prosperity to the state that it became caught in the rivalry between the great West African empires of Songhai (Gao) and Bornu. In 1513 Katsina was conquered by the Songhai.

The original walls around Katsina town, the kingdom’s capital, were built in the mid-16th century. In 1554 Katsina defeated the forces of Songhai and, in 1570, those of Kano, its principal rival in the trans-Saharan trade. After Moroccan armies had vanquished Songhai in 1591, Katsina was (until the end of the 18th century) a tributary state of Bornu. Katsina entered its greatest period of prosperity in the early 18th century. Besides being the leading Hausa commercial state, it replaced Timbuktu (Tombouctou) as the chief West African centre of Islāmic studies. Later in the century, wars with Gobir, a Hausa state to the northwest, marked the beginning of Katsina’s decline.

Fulani herdsmen settled in Katsina by the 15th century, and in 1804 the Fulani jihad (holy war) leader, Usman dan Fodio, led a revolt (beginning in Gobir) against the Hausa overlords. The Fulani leader Umaru Dallaji captured Katsina town in 1806 and was named the first Katsina emir with Katsina as his seat. The emirate was governed by the representative of the sultan of Sokoto (a town 160 miles [258 km] west) as well as the local emir. Many of the Hausa nobility and people fled to Dankama (25 miles [40 km] northeast) and to Tassawa (Tessaoua) and Maradi in Niger, where they proclaimed a Hausa Katsina chiefdom. Their raids throughout the 19th century weakened the Fulani emir and Katsina town (which was surpassed by Kano).

marriage in katsina

The marriage customs involves various stages. When a young man sees a girl and falls in love with her, he makes known his feeling by either speaking to her directly, or if he is shy to do it, he may ask his friends to do it on his behalf. If the response is favourable, he offers her some presents. From then on, he and his friends visit the girl in the night for “Zance” which is a kind of discussions between the girls and the boy. Mats are spread on the floor of the entrance for the boy and his friends to sit. When it is time to part, the boy may at will give her presents.

Later, the boy informs his parents, and the parents formally contact the parents of the girls. In some areas the boys father in company of his friends or relations take some specific amount of money to the girl’s parents. The acceptance of this money is signal to an agreement that the marriage can take place in the future.

The suitor continues to visit the girls at home taking along some presents from time to time. After sometime, the suitor’s parents consult the parents of the girl on a possible date of the engagement. The date may be months ahead and this gives the suitors time to make necessary preparations for the event. The first thing he does it to buy portmanteau in which he puts gifts of clothes, dresses, soap and perfumes for the girl. This is considered as very important in marriage customs. In the past “Baiko” a kind of minor engagement was arranged between the boy and the girl. The purpose of this was to send away any other person who may wish to seek the girl’s hand in marriage, and to confirm to the suitor that he is definitely the one to marry the girl.

On the day of the marriage ceremony, friends, relatives and neighbours assemble at the home of the girl. The boy’s father or his representative asks the girl’s hand in marriage on behalf of the groom to be. He pays the dowry and accepts the conditions and responsibility of marriage, which include feeding the girl, education and housing her. Kolanuts are then distributed to the people and prayers are offered for the success blessing of the marriage.

In the night the bride accompanied by her friends and one or two older women, escort her to the groom’s house. On Sunday late in the night, the groom’s friends escort him.

Governor of katsina state during public functions

Government of katsina State

Aminu Bello Masari (born 29 May 1950) is a Nigerian politician and current Governor of Katsina State. He was the speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007. Masari hails from Katsina State.

Masari ran unsuccessfully for the office of Katsina State Governor in the 2011 election under the platform of defunct Congress for Progressive Change. In December 2014 he emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 elections.

He was declared winner of the 11 April 2015 Katsina State Governorship election, defeating his arch-rival Musa Nashuni; anointed candidate of incumbent Shema.

Aminu Bello Masari was sworn in as the Executive Governor of Kastina State on 29 May 2015. Governor. Masari is from the same State as the newly sworn in President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari.

time to change the narrative, lets us expose some of the rich cultures in our counttires instead of all these madness of competing on which country is better. i want to gives updates on the 37 states in nigeria, i want to start with the extreme northwestern states.
the first state to start with is katsina

Katsina state.

Katsina State was created out of the defunct Kaduna State on Wednesday 23rd September 1987. The State comprises the two Emirates of Katsina and Daura, with an estimated population of 5,792,578 people, based on 2006 census. It borders Kaduna State to the South, Jigawa and Kano States to the East, Zamfara State to the West and the Niger Republic to the North. The State occupies an area of about 23,938sq kilometers. It is situated on Latitude between 110 07’ 49N’ 130 22 57” and Longitude 6052’ 03E and 9 90 02’E”. The major tribes in the State are Hausa and Fulani and Islam is the predominant religion. Languages spoken in the State are Hausa and Fulfulde. The State is one of the most peaceful States in the Federation.

statistics
Current Governor: Aminu Bello Masari
Population: 5,801,584 (2006 census figures) – 4th of 37
Percentage of Nigeria’s total population: 4.1%
Landmass: 24,971 square kilometres
State capital: Katsina
Local Government Areas: 34
The main ethnic groups are Hausa and Fulani.

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