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Encyclopedia > Jigawa State

Jigawa State is a state in central northern Nigeria. Its capital is Dutse. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1869x1658, 57 KB)one of the States of Nigeria File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...


The state was formed in 1991 from part of Kano State. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kano State, a commercial and agricultural state, is located in north-central Nigeria. ...



Ironically Dutse is not the largest city of the state,



it is fourth came behind Hadejia,



Kazaure and Gumel respectivelly .



 
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Jigawa State at AllExperts (1334 words)
NG-JI Jigawa State is a state in central northern Nigeria.
Jigawa State is one of thirty-six States that constitute Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Kano and Katsina States border Jigawa to the west, Bauchi State to the east and Yobe State to the northeast.
THISDAYonline (2723 words)
Muktar Hadejia, who on behalf of the Jigawa State youth appealed to the members of the State House of Assembly to investigate Governor Saminu Turaki, dismissed these foreign trips as a way of siphoning public funds, which could otherwise be used in improving the living standards of the people.
Jigawa State was created about eleven years ago by the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida administration as an agrarian economy with over 80 percent of the populace engaged in subsistence farming and animal husbandry.
For states in the North where the main source of livelihood is farming, the peasant farmers look up to the government for improved method of farming and subsidization of farming materials such as fertilizer.
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