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Topic: Jigawa State

	THISDAYonline
		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.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/11/25/20011125cov02.html (2723 words)

	Nigeria: JIGAWA STATE - Jigawa State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		km.The state is bordered on the west by Kano State, on the east by Bauchi and Yobe States and on the north by Katsina and Yobe States and by the Republic of Niger.
		In a speech marking the creation of Jigawa State, along with its sister states, the then president of Nigeria, General lbrahim Babangida, listed the principles that informed the creation of the new states as those of development, social justice and a balanced federation.
		Jigawa State is governed by an executive coun cil, with an elected governor as the Chairman.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/jigawaadv.asp?blurb=274 (765 words)

	Amana Online
		Jigawa State is the only backward state out of the 8 other states mainly in terms of infrastructural development, healthcare and education.
		Since inception, the state has not had a single Governor with a determination to develop the state with emphasis on provision of basic infrastructures, adequate health care, improvement of agriculture, which is the trade of over 80% of the state’s population and most importantly educational development and provision of employment to the youths.
		Jigawa and other states of the federation have been cash strapped due to fall in revenue allocations from the federation account therefore it is not surprising that Turaki is devising new means of obtaining money to continue his squander of public funds and he is taking the legislators along with him.
	www.amanaonline.com /Articles/art_469.htm (3222 words)

	Home
		Jigawa State was created in 1991 from old Kano State, with Hadejia Emirate being a part of it.
		HEDA decided that its energy and meagre resources were better concentrated towards persuading Jigawa State governments to stick to the spirit and letter of the Nigerian constitution in socio-economic and political issues in the State.
		The Jigawa military government of the day simply sat on the aid and left the victims and their families stranded in various makeshift accommodations for months on end, subsisting on the goodwill of good Samaritans, until most lost hope and drifted away.
	www.hadejia.com /heda.html (3077 words)

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		jigawa State shares borders with Kano and Katsina States to the west, Bauchi to the south, Yobe State to the east and Republic of Niger to the north.
		Jigawa State is blessed with mineral resources: they are kaolin, tourmaline, amethyst, marl stones, potash, solice, iron ore, copper, gold, white quartz, refractory clay and antimony.
		Education is a priority of the state and consequently the school enrolment is annually on the increase.
	www.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_state_jigawa.aspx (543 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Nigeria’s Jigawa State signs electrification contract with Chinese firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The contract is the biggest of its kind to be entered into by the state government since its election in 1999 in the area of rural electrification.
		Signing the contract on behalf of the state government, the secretary to the state government, Alhaji Lawan Yau Roni, said government is determined to provide a source of energy to the people as part of it strategies to boost rural industrialisation.
		Lawan Roni disclosed that the state independent power project -- which is another project aimed at improving energy supply in the state -- was nearing completion and would be connected to all the villages as part of measures taken to reduce the unreliable power supply in the country.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cna61208.htm (319 words)

	Weekly Trust: The Paper Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On the 1st of October, the state celebrated 10 years, but the irony was that when the state was celebrating, workers in the state were planning an industrial action against late payment of their entitlements.
		The state made history by allocating 28 percent to education in the 2006 budget which is three percent higher than the UNESCO recommendation of 25 percent.
		One can not reconcile the allocation and priority to education with the inability of the state government to provide accommodation to students of the state polytechnic even when it was establish same year with the university and the non payment of bursary to students for two years.
	www.dailytrust.com /weekly/comment1.htm (1093 words)

	Kanostate.net - K-SEEDS - Full Document
		Kano State is the centre of commerce, second most industrialized State in Nigeria, the economic nerve centre of the north and most politically active and sophisticated people in the northern part of the Country.
		Created along with eleven other States, Kano formally came into being on April 1, 1968. In 1991 Jigawa State was created and curved out of the old Kano State. The State is arguably the most homogeneous in the Nigerian Federation. It has a projected population of over 12 million people.
		It is bordered on the East by Jigawa State, to the South are Bauchi and Kaduna States and to the West is Katsina while to the north are Katsina and Jigawa States.
	www.kanostate.net /seeds/K_SEEDS_Full_Document.html (2798 words)

	Jigawa to Recruit Cuban Doctors / AllAfrica.com - CubaNet News - Noticias de Cuba / Cuba News
		Jigawa State government is shopping for Cuban doctors to work in its hospitals.
		He said the number is too small to attend to the teeming population of the state, adding, part of our efforts to attract doctors to work in the state is to put all indigenes studying medicine on grade level 07 salary, to be paid every month from their year three until graduation.
		He said the state intends to establish additional 55 hospitals, to make health-care accessible to the people, no matter how remote their area is.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y04/ago04/18e10.htm (296 words)

	Ekiti State News
		He called on all unions in the state to always embrace dialogue and accommodation of collective interest in the resolution of issues, saying the high point of democracy is dialogue and compromise, before arriving at a consensus in resolving contending issues.
		The permanent secretary expressed the dissatisfaction of the state government with the indiscriminate ways of appointing supervisors for the senior school certificate examinations, saying this was responsible for examination malpractice in some schools in the state.
		Jigawa State Governor Ibrahim Saminu Turaki and visiting Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fasoye have challenged the leadership in all the three tiers of government to concentrate on policies that would reduce the current hardship being experienced by the people through people-oriented programmes.
	www.ekiti.com /ekitinews/jul2005.php (7328 words)

	A cry from the wilderness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Where a state has to depend on federal allocation to meet over 90% of its expenditure, the whole notion of state autonomy should be discarded.
		State and local government creation became, in the hands of the Military Administration, a fraudulent exercise of diverting national resources to favoured areas.
		Each state can provide for internal devolution of power and functions between it and its component units that may be styled provincial or county councils, which may correspond (in areas) with the existing states so as not to frustrate settled expectations.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /articles/a_cry_from_the_wilderness.htm (1808 words)

	Jigawa Information Technology Initiative, Jigawa State, Nigeria [W2i: Wireless Internet Institute: Case Study Database]
		Jigawa State in northern Nigeria is a remote and semi-arid land.
		His Jigawa Information Technology Initiative would use a satellite backbone (PanamSat 1.5 Mbps) and Wi-Fi and WiMAX-type technology to spur economic growth around the state, provide an ICT infrastructure for the population, and develop a globally connected IT university that would graduate its first class by 2006.
		While the state buys bandwidth from a European company at considerable expense (estimated $30,000 per month) a new state-owned service provider, Galaxy ITT Inc., based out of a “Broadband Center” in Dutse, the capital, is facilitating wide-scale public Internet service.
	www.w2i.org /pages/case_studies/jigawa_nigeria.html (637 words)

	Vanguard - National News : Jigawa inches towards market-oriented agriculture
		The State is blessed with thousands of hectares of forest reserves, plantations in form of estates and shelter-belts, grazing reserves and cattle routes.
		The core objective of Jigawa State agricultural policy therefore is to make the peasant farmers self sufficient in food production and economically empower them by promoting the production of selected industrial and export crops to support agro-industrial growth.
		The establishment of Jigawa State Research Institute is a major giant stride in the history of agricultural development in Jigawa State.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/north/nt112092005.html (617 words)

	THISDAYonline
		This year's flood disaster in Jigawa State has more than any other singular event, demonstrated the extent of "Federal Neglect" meted on the good people of the state since its creation 10 years ago.
		Perhaps the people's expectation of any meaningful redress was, and is till predicated on the fact that since the creation of the state in 1991, this year's flooding is the first major calamity we are witnessing under democratic dispensation, and by far, the worst in our chequered history.
		For us in Jigawa State, we are gradually, but systematically being delinked from the rest of the country.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2002/03/02/20020302com02.html (1095 words)

	Kano State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Created on May 27, 1967 from part of the Northern Region, Kano state borders Katsina State to the north-west, Jigawa State to the north-east, and Bauchi and Kaduna states to the south.
		The state originally included Jigawa State which was made an independent state in 1991.
		Historically, Kano state has been a commercial and agricultural state, which is known for the production of groundnuts as well as for its solid mineral deposits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kano_State (341 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Nigeria's Jigawa state adopts Sharia
		Jigawa is the sixth state to adopt Sharia
		It is the sixth state in northern Nigeria to adopt Sharia during the course of the year.
		But in Jigawa, a rural and a poor state, the fiercely conservative peasant farmers appear overwhelmingly in favour of a return to Sharia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/862662.stm (386 words)

	Jigawa State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hadejia – Kafin Hausa River traverses the State from west to east through the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands and empties into Lake Chad Basin.
		Total forest cover in the State is very much below national average of 14.8%[1].
		Multilateral agencies have been a veritable source of development funds and technical assistance to State Government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jigawa_State (1325 words)

	Jigawa Makes Progress In Water Supply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wife of Jigawa State Governor, Hajia Haharau Turaki has stated that the state has made steady progress in water supply to rural dwellers in its efforts to stem water borne diseases.
		According to her the state under the stewardship of her husband has been able to access so many of its rural populace with portable drinking water but expressed regrets that sanitation and hygiene, which ought to complements government’s efforts were low.
		Jallon said the agency’s partnership with the state includes collaborations aimed at improving the lives of the people, pointing out that those efforts were implemented in education, health planning and communication, child protective and participation as and water sanitation and hygiene.
	www.independentngonline.com /news/56/ARTICLE/9345/2006-08-21.html (616 words)

	Renewable Solar Energy in Nigeria: Solar Electric Light Fund
		With the intention of addressing the unavailability of energy in villages, SELF Executive Director Robert Freling and Jigawa State Governor Ibrahim Siminu Turaki began a dialog in 2001 concerning the possibility of using solar–electricity (photovoltaic or PV) to power essential services in the far-flung villages of Jigawa State.
		Under his leadership, Jigawa State has started a computer technology trade school and is the first state in Northern Nigeria to create a satellite-based broadband internet and communications system to link all local government districts.
		Having a reliable water supply is the first priority of any village and this is especially true in the semi-desert of Jigawa State where there are few rivers or other sources of water on the surface of the land.
	www.self.org /nigeria.asp (1661 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		President Olusegun Obasanjo continued his tour of states in the northwestern part of the country with a two-day visit to Jigawa State last week.
		It was amidst this carnival atmosphere that the President proceeded to witness the turbaning of Saminu Turaki, Governor of Jigawa State as the Turakin Kazaure.
		He also commissioned the Jigawa Ethanol fuel project, which is an ambitious initiative by the state government to explore the possibility of using ethanol from sugarcane to power motor engines.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10501110442.htm (636 words)

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		Irked by the menace of HIV/AIDS in the country, the Jigawa State Government in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Health is to spend the sum of N127 miilion towards the successful control of the programme in the state.
		To that effect the state government through Ministry of Health has set up a state action committee on AIDS (SACA) under the leadership of the state Deputy Governor Barrister Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia as director, while Commissioner of Health, Alhaji Muktar Birniwa, will serve as deputy director of the committee.
		According to Muktar Birniwa, Jigawa State government is the least state with HIV/AIDS victims in the country, pointing out this might not be unconnected with the further consideration on the control of the peril.
	www.nigeria-aids.org /news/print.cfm/150 (319 words)

	The Dutse Emirate Website - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Newsflash 1 -Royal Golf Course opens on the 25th and 26th of February 2006, in Dutse the Jigawa State Capital by His Highness the Emir of Dutse Nuhu Muhammad Sanusi.
		With a projected 2002 population of 1.4 million {source: national population commission}, the emirate covers an area of abut 7382 sq km, laying between latitude 100 25 N 120 07’N and longitude 90 05’ e and 100 25 e.
		The Emirate is bordered in the South and South-East by emirates of Ningi, Katagum and Misau {in Bauchi State}.
	www.dutseemirate.com (422 words)

	afrol News: Desert encroachment fought with cash crop in Nigeria
		Misanet.com / IPS, 20 February - Nigeria's Jigawa State, in collaboration with the United States, has launched a programme to harness the potentials of Gum Arabic to reduce poverty and fight desert encroachment in northern Nigeria.
		Ravi Aulakh, USAID development officer, told Bukar Ibrahim, Governor of neighbouring State of Yobe during a visit, that the agency had fashioned programmes to explore areas of partnership in implementing AGOA, one of which is producing, processing, exporting and marketing Nigeria's Gum Arabic.
		It acts as an emulsifier, flavouring agent and thickener in both food and pharmaceutical, it is also used in the newspaper and magazine printing process, allowing ink to stick better to the paper while keeping it from smearing as well as protecting the printing plates from oxidation.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/nig007_gum_arabic.htm (1060 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: The Jigawa 'Rebellion': Can They Change the Political Equation? (Page 1 of 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The announcement yesterday(Wednesday) by the Jigawa state Deputy Governor that he has decamped back to the ANPP, a party they left early this year along with all the entire state machinery has brought out to the fore the growing political differences between Governor Turaki and his Deputy.
		The announcement that the serving deputy governor of Jigawa state, Barrister Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia has decamped to the All Nigeria People's Party ANPP from the predominantly PDP government along with many commissioners, advisers and state House of Assembly members did not come as a surprise to watchers of political development in the state.
		It was in the middle of this month that some state house of assembly members believed to be guided by some forces within the state government organised an impeachment attempt that was scuttled by sympathetic forces loyal to the deputy Governor, it then became further clear to him that he either leave or face disgrace.
	allafrica.com /stories/200611271798.html (636 words)

	News -- Ekiti Gov Fayose visits Jigawa State with 80-man delegation
		DUTSE â” Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Peter Ayodele Fayose has begun a three-day official working visit to Jigawa State, barely a week after he left the state after a previous visit.
		It was disclosed that Governor Fayose and his delegation were in Jigawa to study the programme and policies of the Turaki administration, especially in the areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), poverty alleviation programme which include the skill acquisition centres, the hydra-form technology, water initiative and educational policy of the state.
		The Ekiti governor left Jigawa only on Monday, July 4 day after he had spent three days inspecting and commissioning some projects executed by the Governor Turaki in the last six years, before returning with an 80-man delegation.
	odili.net /news/source/2005/jul/15/331.html (254 words)

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