Yobe State State nickname: The Young Shall Grow
Location
Statistics
Governor (List)	Bukar Ibrahim (ANPP)
Date Created	27 August 1991
Capital	Damaturu
Largest City	Damaturu
Area	45,502 km² Ranked 6th
Population 1991 Census 2005 estimate	Ranked 32nd 1,411,481 2,532,395
Official Language	English
ISO 3166-2	NG-YO

Yobe State, a mainly agricultural state, is located in Northern Nigeria. Created on August 27, 1991, Yobe state was carved out of present-day Borno State. The state borders the fellow Nigerian states of Borno, Gombe, and Jigawa and borders the nation of Niger. Because the state lies mainly in the dry savanna belt, the state is dry and hot for most the year except in the southern part of the state which has a milder climate. The capital of Yobe state is Damaturu. The state is made of 17 local governments: The following table presents a listing of Nigerian state nicknames. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1869x1658, 57 KB)one of the States of Nigeria Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... The following table presents a listing of Nigerias state governors. ... This is a list of Yobe State leaders: See also Nigeria States of Nigeria List of Nigerian state governors Category: ... Bukar Abba Ibrahim Alhaji Bukar Abba Ibrahim (b. ... The All Nigeria Peoples Party is a conservative political party in Nigeria. ... The following table presents a listing of Nigerias states and the dates of their creation. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The following is a list of Nigerian State capitals. ... Location of Damaturu in Nigeria Damaturu is a city in northeastern Nigeria. ... Location of Damaturu in Nigeria Damaturu is a city in northeastern Nigeria. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... The following table presents a listing of Nigerias 36 states ranked in order of their surface area. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The following table presents a listing of Nigerias 36 states ranked in order of their total population (based on 2005 population estimates). ... An official language is a language that is given a unique legal status in a country, state, or other territory. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. ... Gombe is a State in Nigeria. ... Jigawa State is a state in central northern Nigeria. ... Savanna is a grassland dotted with trees, and occurs in several types of biomes. ... Location of Damaturu in Nigeria Damaturu is a city in northeastern Nigeria. ...

While Yobe state is an agricultural state it also has rich fishing grounds and mineral deposits of gypsum, kaolin, and quartz. In agricultural the state produces arabic gum, groundnuts, beans, cotton, and other things. The state is also credited for having largest cattle markets in West Africa located in Potiskum. Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. // Chemical structure Gypsum from New South Wales, Australia Heating gypsum above approximately 150°C (302°F) partially dehydrates the mineral by driving off exactly 75% of the water contained in its chemical structure. ... Kaolin Kaolinite (Aluminium Silicate Hydroxide) Kaolinite is a mineral with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4. ... Quartz is the most abundant mineral in the Earths continental crust. ... Gum arabic is a substance that is taken from two sub-Saharan species of the acacia tree. ... This article is about peanut, the food. ... This article is on the plant. ... Picking cotton in Georgia Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (called cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... Street markets such as this one in Rue Mouffetard, Paris are still common in France. ... West Africa is the region of western Africa that is generally considered to include the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. ...

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