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	Birnin Kebbi -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Kebbi borders the nations of Niger to the west and Benin to the southwest, and it borders the Nigerian states of Sokoto to the north and east and Niger to the south.
		Kebbi's area consists of short-grass savanna that is drained southwestward by the Niger River and its...
		The town is on the Sokoto (Kebbi) River and lies at the intersection of roads from Birnin Kebbi, Gwandu, Sokoto town, Augi, and Kaingiwa.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015380 (451 words)

	NAPEP - Overview of Kebbi State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kebbi State was created on 27th August, 1991, out of the then Sokoto State, following the creation of nine additional states and the re-adjustment of geographical boundaries of the then twenty-one states by the Federal Military Government.
		Prior to colonialism, Birnin Kebbi (the state capital) had to contend with the supremacy of Sokoto, the headquarters of the caliphate, and the emirates headquarters of Argungu, Zuru and Yauri.
		Kebbi State has a long history of educational pursuit dating back to the post-jihad years, when the area came under the influence of the Sokoto Caliphate, during which it witnessed the development of Islamic education.
	www.napep.com /states/kebbi_state.html (4635 words)

	My Way - News
		LAGOS (Reuters) - Two policemen were shot and two more stabbed during a raid on an Islamic sect engaged in wife-swapping in the northern Nigerian state of Kebbi, authorities said on Thursday.
		Sect members armed with guns, daggers and bows and arrows attacked police and government workers who were sent to destroy the group's base in the state capital Birnin-Kebbi.
		Kebbi is one of 12 northern Nigerian states to have declared Muslim sharia Islamic law in 2000.
	news.myway.com /odd/article/id/419473%7Coddlyenough%7C08-06-2004::08:27%7Creuters.html (226 words)

	Kebbi State Government of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Birnin Kebbi is one of the settlements to have come in contact with the white settlers during the colonial era, and this gave birth to the establishment of the G.R.A, which now serves as the living terraces of the development.
		When Birnin Kebbi assumed the status of a State capital in August, 1991, there was only one General Hospital and one Women and Children Welfare Clinic, that cater for the health services demand of the teeming population.
		Kebbi urban Development Authority is the body shouldered with the task of ensuring development control and to contain the incidence of illegal structures, as well as provide guidelines for development of the town.
	www.kebbistate.gov.ng /statecapital.htm (2205 words)

	The Nigerian Embassy - States and Local Governments
		Kebbi state enjoys a tropical type climate which is generally characterized by two extremes of temperature - the hot and cold temperatures.
		Kebbi state has one of the most agriculturally viable environment since it is endowed with high soil fertility, vast farm lands and economcally viable rivers sheltered by fine tropical climate.
		Kebbi state is endowed with economically viable rivers such as the Niger and the Rima for the development of fisheries activities.
	www.nigerianembassy-chile.org /government/states/kebbi.shtml (609 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		The building of township roads, starting with the over 45 kilometres of roads in Birnin Kebbi, is no doubt one of the most visible sources of happiness and a thing of pride to the people.
		Birnin Kebbi has by all standards assumed the looks and character of a modern city.
		Aliero is yet to recover from the shock of discovering that his close allies that had manned the Finance Ministry since 1999 had betrayed the trust he reposed in them and been pinching the lean finances of the state.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/special/10627132952.htm (1418 words)

	THISDAYonline
		For instance, in Birnin Kebbi you would almost not notice that the Sharia code was operative.
		However, in the neighboring town called Jega in the same Kebbi State, you could be arrested for speaking with your own sister in the open, because Jega is the home of a group Islamic fundamentalists who have imposed their own brand of Sharia on the inhabitants of the otherwise serene town.
		Kebbi is a young state with a lot of promises.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/11/06/20011106law09.html (1207 words)

	The Sun News On-line/politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When he indicated his interest to run for the office of the chairman, Birnin Kebbi Local Government and left his job to show how serious he was, very few understood what would make a lecturer with the Nigerian Law School quit to run for the office of local government chairman.
		In Birnin Kebbi and Kola towns, there were these complaints about the situation of the abattoirs.
		Birnin Kebbi town has benefited so much from the state, and local governments.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/politics/2004/aug/11/politic-11-08-2004-002.htm (1037 words)

	MilitaryMap: Birnin Kebbi
		Town and capital of Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria.
		It lies along the Sokoto (Kebbi) River at the intersection of roads from Argungu, Jega, and Bunza.
		An early settlement of the Kebbawa, a subgroup of the Hausa, it was captured about 1516 by Muhammadu Kanta, founder of the Kebbi kingdom; subsequently, it was incorporated into Kebbi, one of the banza bakwai (the seven illegitimate
	militarymap.blogspot.com /2005/03/birnin-kebbi.html (72 words)

	Nigeria: SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE - Kebbi State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Education: Kebbi State has a long history of Educational pursuit dating back to the post jihad years, when the area came under the influence of the Sokoto Caliphate, during which it witnessed the development of Islamic education.
		There are fiftynine secondary and teacher training schools in Kebbi State with a total enrolment of 63,748 males and 15,897 females served by only 1,293 teachers thus implying a teacher/student ratio of 1:49.
		At present, only seven towns, namely Argungu, Birnin Kebbi, Yauri, Zuru, Jega, Koko, Kamba, are connected to the national grid while the other local government head quarters are served by the REB.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/kebbiadv.asp?blurb=302 (1252 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barrister Danladi Bamaiyi who is presently representing Kebbi South senatorial district that comprises Yauri and Zuru Emirates, has said that he would not concede to his brother General Bamaiyi, whom he described as a political amateur who cannot win the election due to lack of experience.
		A seat in the house of assembly in Danko/Wasagu constituency and that of four councillors were all won by the APP which is a clear testimony of APP’s strength in Kebbi State.
		From the foregoing, it is clear that the gubernatorial race in Kebbi State is going to be a very competitive tug-of-war between generals and old politicians of the third republic.
	www.weeklytrust.com /cover6.htm (940 words)

	N3billion naira fraud tears Kebbi State apart - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Muhammed Adamu Aliero, may have stirred the hornetâs nest when he shunned entreaties to âtread softlyâ over the discovery of a N3 billion fraud in the stateâs Ministry of Finance.
		At the weekend, speculations were rife in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, that the accused could be considering the Samson option: that is, pulling the roof down on all the latter-day anti-corruption âcrusadersâ in the corridor of power in Kebbi.
		Police investigators in Kebbi confirmed to Sunday Sun that they have extended their dragnet beyond the audit reports and that several staff in the ministry of finance have been quizzed.
	nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates?a=1089&z=10 (1557 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : TOURISM:- Kebbi government explains reasons for this year’s Argungu festival
		Barrister Ibrahim Kangiwa added that accommodation facilities at the fishing village have been improved upon as the one thousand rooms in the place are now of international standard with air-conditioners, television, new marble floor among other facilities put there for tourists comfort.
		Barrister Kangiwa explained that the 36 states of the Federation and neighbouring Niger and Benin Republics have been invited to showcase their culture as these states cultural troupes are expected to stage drama and dances.
		Alhaji Kangiwa noted that Kebbi state is secured as there is no fear of insecurity as he said that the festival itself is a celebration of peace.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/fe512032004.html (811 words)

	Welcome to Africa Today.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Usman, the good-natured Kebbi indigene had agreed to be our driver for twelve hours a day all through the six-day duration of the fishing festival.
		It was ruled from 1700 to 1805 by Hausa kings of Kebbi, one of the Banza Bakwai (the seven illegitimate Hausa states), the capital of which was at Birnin Kebbi to the southwest.
		Argungu emirate became a separate division of the province in 1906; it constituted the Argungu division of 3,356 sq miles (8,692 sq km).
	www.africatoday.co.uk /jun04/jun04ekabopage.htm (837 words)

	TODAY'S LEAD STORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kebbi State Deputy Governor might be ousted from power if the renewed efforts of the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to challenge the constitutionality of his election into office come to fruition.
		When the lawyer of the Governor of Kebbi State, Mallam Yahaya Mahmoud presented the Court proceedings and verdicts in respect of the matter to the two legislative bodies, they dismissed the petitions as frivolous and untenable".
		He also claimed that the "Kebbi State legislature lacks the moral courage to predicate its decision on the fact that an election tribunal had struck out the petition on technical grounds, while the National Assembly, on the other hand, lacked the constitutional power to intervene".
	www.n-today.ndtilda.co.uk /cover141.htm (455 words)

	ABUJA MIRROR HOME PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Civil servants in Kebbi State have been urged to pay the 5% tax imposed on them to uplift the standard of the state.
		The Executive Chairman of Kebbi State Board of Inland Revenue (BIR), Alhaji Suleiman D. Umar (FCA) made this call in an interview with Abuja Mirror in his office in Birnin Kebbi.
		Alhaji Umar stated that the workforce in the state cannot be improved without the co-operation of its workers in respect of paying such tax levied on them, adding that Kebbi State is one of the backward states which has no single industry as well as wealthy individuals to reckon with.
	www.n-today.ndtilda.co.uk /mnew143c.htm (332 words)

	THISDAYonline
		One major landmark of the capital, Birnin Kebbi, is the Rima Roundabout, which leads to Zauro, another major city in the state.
		In an interview with THISDAY at the Government House, Birnin Kebbi the governor confirmed this.
		At the Haliru Audu Secretariat, Birnin Kebbi, THISDAY saw transformers and cables brought to connect villages and communities to the national grid.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/07/19/20040719fea01.html (2011 words)

	Birnin Kebbi -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The town is a collecting point for tobacco, grown in the surrounding riverine floodplains, and peanuts (groundnuts) and is a major local market centre for rice, millet,...
		An early Niger River settlement of the Reshe (Gungawa) people, it was ruled by the kings of Yauri from their capital at Bin Yauri, 8.5 miles (14 km) southeast.
	www.wip.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9015380 (451 words)

	Kebbi State Government of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Kebbi State Transport Authority, a major parastatals of the Ministry of works, Transport and Housing has been entangled in a number of problems which have to a great extent been undermining its progress as a profit oriented venture.
		And the lack of terminal in Birnin Kebbi presently, hardly can any of its vehicle ply on inter state rouvtes and even the local services is undertaken with a lot of sweat.
		Kebbi State Environmental Protection Agency is also one of the key parastatals under the works ministry.
	www.kebbistate.gov.ng /works.htm (1311 words)

	:: Xinhuanet - English :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The situation appears so alarming that some state governments, especially those in the northern parts of the most populous African country with a 130-million population, have taken measures to check the growing trend.
		Recently, the Kebbi State government in northwest Nigeria said it would hence forth dissolve marriages involving girls withdrawn from school.
		Kebbi State Governor Adamu Aliero, who said this when a delegation from a local government council visited him in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, warned that parents of such girls would be prosecuted.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2004-03/22/content_1377404.htm (732 words)

	Q-online - News: Sharia court sentences homosexual to death by stoning
		housands of people last week converged at the Birnin-Kebbi metropolitan Upper Sharia Court in Kebbi State, Nigeria to listen to the verdict of a long drawn-out case of homosexuality against one Attahiru Umar, a 35-year-old man of "Go-slow road" in Birnin Kebbi who was alleged to have lured a seven-year-old boy into homosexual act.
		The judgment which was described as the first of its kind since the introduction of Sharia in the North was witnessed by a mammoth crowd in the Birnin-Kebbi Upper Sharia Court.
		The acting chairman of the Kebbi State Sharia Implementation Committee, Khadi Muhammadu Sani said the judgment was commensurate with the enormity of the crime.
	www.q.co.za /2001/2001/09/30-stonedgays.html (526 words)

	NgEX! NigeriaExchange - States
		Kebbi State shares boundaries with Sokoto State on the North-Eastern axis, Zamfara State on the Eastern part, Niger state on the Southern part and Republic of Niger on the Western part.
		Kebbi State came into being on August 27, 1991.
		The state has a total of 303 primary schools and 29 post primary schools, it also maintains three higher institutions namely Kebbi State Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, College of Agriculture, Zuru, School of Health Technology, Jega, a number of Islamic schools and other centres of Nomadic Education.
	www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/kebbi.htm (198 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		BIRNIN KEBBI, Nigeria, Dec. 1 (AFP) - A ninth northern Nigerian state Friday defied the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo and declared Islamic law, banning alcohol and setting out a strict social code.
		Kebbi State Governor Adamu Aliero told a ceremony in the state capital, Birnin Kebbi, that the Islamic law code known as the Sharia would come into immediate effect.
		The introduction of the code is very popular with most Muslims but fiercely opposed by Christians who form a minority of the population in northern Nigeria but make up the majority population in the south.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/55/story_5589_1.html (245 words)

	'Crying Outside the Corridors of Power'
		This was the warning made to the Great Commission team after they had shown the Jesus film in Birnin Kebbi, capital of Nigeria's Kebbi state.
		Inside the cathedral compound, squeezed against the compound wall, is the shell of a new building funded entirely by the church, which will house the first Christian primary school in Birnin Kebbi.
		He added that there was a need for consistent and substantial support from outside, or offering people the gospel would be like asking them to choose between the difficult life they already live and a life of persecution and sometimes starvation under the present regime.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/compass-nigeria-outside-power.html (1201 words)

	Kebbi 2003
		Adebayo in my sitting room in Birnin Kebbi; that is if meeting someone for the first time from a television screen is a physical act.
		I was just a stakeholder in Kebbi State, and one who believed at the initial first year that the Governor needed the benefit of the doubt – a chance to learn the ropes.
		If it is not on account of a wrong move to buy an aircraft, or such other misplaced idea; it is on the issue of minimum wage or harassment of one or two of its members for daring to voice the anger within the civil service over the ineptitude of the Aleiro administration.
	www.gamji.com /article1000/NEWS1647.htm (1059 words)

	KEBBI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Formed out of Sokoto State in 1991, Kebbi's capital of Birnin-Kebbi is an ancient city with origins in the 14th century.
		A largely agricultural state and with an abundance of livestock production, Kebbi is famous for the annual Argungu Fishing Festival.
		Kebbi's Gwandu Emirate was founded in the early 1800s by the brother of the great Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio.
	www.afrione.com /nigeria/states/contents/kebbi.htm (60 words)

	Aliero_Jokolo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Colonel Saliu Tunde Bello, an infantry officer, fresh from the trenches of war-torn Liberia was appointed military governor of Kebbi State in December 1993, little did he know that before the end of his ‘military assignment’, he would bury three first class emirs and appoint two new ones for the state.
		With Major Al-Mustapha coordinating security in Abuja and Major Aminu in Birnin Kebbi as head of the advance party for the visit, protocol arrangements were manipulated to ensure that General Jega was denied any physical contact with General Abacha.
		Throughout the trip between Birnin Kebbi and Sokoto, the deposed emir rained abuses at the governor and President Obasanjo, occasionally interrupting to lament his destiny of having to suffer Dasuki’s fate.
	www.leadershipconfidential.com /v2n7a1.php (2138 words)

	BNW News Blog: Biafra Nigeria World News Index and Digest: Kebbi riot: Police clear officer of robbery Allegation
		Kebbi riot: Police clear officer of robbery Allegation
		Police authorities in Kebbi State on Wednesday confirmed that the riot that broke out in Yauri town resulted from protests over an armed robbery case involving four policemen saying however that one of them was not an armed robber after all.
		In the ensuing protest, policemen on duty at the Yauri police station opened fire on the protesting youths and three persons were shot dead in the melee and five other persons hospitalised.
	news.biafranigeriaworld.com /archive/daily_independent/2005/05/05/kebbi_riot_police_clear_officer_of_robbery_allegation.php (379 words)

	Vanguard - Columns : Cheering developments
		While there are as yet no developments regarding Igue, it is heartening to note that the Kebbi State Government all along had a plan on Argungu that it had quietly been implementing.
		Also, it is now no longer news that the Adamu Aliero administration has deemed it fit to partner with the private sector in its tourism development efforts.
		If Kebbi’s neighbouring Niger State repositions tourism attractions around Kainji, New Bussa and the waterfall (I forget the name now) along the road to Jega, including Zungeru among others, and Kogi rejigs the national monuments signposting our colonial past, then a tourism route could have been developed which could be successfully marketed to tourists.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/tourismdev/tdv11022005.html (790 words)

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