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	Kebbi State - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		NG-KE Kebbi State is a state in north-western Nigeria.
		The state is bordered by the new Sokoto State, Niger State, and Benin, and has a total land area of 36,800 km².
		Kebbi State is divided into 21 local government areas, four emirate councils (Gwandu, Argungu, Yauri and Zuru), and 35 districts.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kebbi_State (116 words)

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		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 economically 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.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_state_kebbi.aspx (588 words)

	Nigeria
		In 2000, the northern state of Kebbi and Sokoto codified gender segregation in schools; some form of gender segregation occurred in many secondary schools elsewhere in the north, but was enforced locally, rather than on a statewide basis.
		State authorities claim that students are permitted not to attend classes taught in a religion other than their own and that students may request a teacher of their own religion to provide alternative instruction.
		State officials also stated that the certification boards were dealing with a large backlog of cases for all applicants regardless of religious faith.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35376.htm (4783 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		Adamu Aliero, governor of Kebbi State is determined to transform the educational sector in that state in a bid to actualise his vision of qualitative education in the state.
		The governor explained that he would wish Kebbi State to continue to be the beacon of hope for education in the entire north.
		In 1999, Kebbi State was rated the second most educationally backward state in the federation.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10125144258.htm (551 words)

	The Sun News Online \| travels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Later, Birnin Kebbi was adopted as the administrative headquarters of the Kabawa dynasty, a status it maintained, until the 18th century Fulani Jihad, led by Shehu Usman Dan Fodio.
		Kebbi is one of the northern states, where the Islamic penal code, Sharia, was more or less reintroduced after Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999.
		The establishment of Kebbi’s Urban Development Authority, a body saddled with the responsibility for the provision of basic utilities, and services in the three principal towns of Argungu, Yauri and Zuru, vide Edict No.2 of 1991 is a veritable pointer to the desire of Kebbi’s rulers to transform the state.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/travels/2005/oct/20/travels-20-10-2005-001.htm (2780 words)

	Vanguard - Politics : Kebbi: Storm over Mercedes cars
		The Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Adamu Aliero, was lucky not to be mentioned in the report of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as one of the 23 governors under investigation.
		They also accused the governor of using state resources to feather the nest of his brother, by giving him unhindered access to public fund, even as it was apparent that the governor’s brother was not in the public or civil service of the state.
		Commissioners are figure heads, permanent secretaries are mere stooges, traditional chiefs are helpless while the entire state seems to have been captured and subjugated by the governor and his brother as if Kebbi is in a state of captivity from war”, they said.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/november06/21112006/p321112006.html (1493 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		He was welcomed by thousands of people in the state who had defied the dusty haze that suddenly descended on the state capital that day to meet the president at the airport located in Ambursa, a settlement on the outskirts of the state capital.
		Giving a breakdown, the governor said that N79.6 billion of the amount had accrued to the state as its share of statutory allocation from the federation account, N5.9 billion was generated from internal revenue sources while N17.2 billion was realised from VAT as well as grants from various sources.
		Responding, President Obasanjo commended the state government for establishing the airport, noting that it was sure to boost the tourism potentials of the state.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10417105821.htm (804 words)

	sokoto-state
		In recognition of his various contributions to the development of Sokoto State in particular and Nigeria as a whole, His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido Abubakar III (CFR) conferred on him the traditional title of Garkuwan Sokoto in August, 1996.
		Kebbi and Zamfara states were carved from the state in 1991 and 1996 respectively.
		The present Sokoto state is bounded in the North by Niger Republic, Kebbi state on the South-west and Zamfara state on the east.
	www.sokoto-state.com /bafarawa.html (899 words)

	Languages spoken in Kebbi State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There are 16 languages spoken as first languages in Kebbi State.
		Some languages are spoken across the border in the neighbouring Republic of Benin.
		Geshuru, Kaele, Saufu, and Tuni villages, all west of Illo, and in the Boko villages of Maze, Samia, Baikinrua, and Pisa
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/kebbi.htm (67 words)

	NigerianNews Guest Column
		The dilatory tactics employed by the authorities in Kebbi state in passing the 2007 Budget has been something of a serious concern to the indigenes and all lovers of the state.
		To every development conscious citizens of Kebbi State, this undue delay in the presentation of 2007 Budget, is enough an issue to call for concern and even raise alarm as to what is actually going on.
		As the good people of Kebbi state wait anxiously for the eventual release of the 2007 Budget, they are equally hopeful that it would embody in it genuine programmes that would arrest the current quandary the delay has since begotten.
	www.nigeriannews.com /guest/Musa_Abdullahi_Mai-Gwandu_01_11_2007.htm (865 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.
		Kebbi, along with several other northern Nigerian states, has adopted "sharia" (Islamic law) to operate above the local and national legal systems.
		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 (1077 words)

	Media Rights Agenda...Promoting and Protecting Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Nigeria
		Three journalists attached to the Kebbi State Government House were at the end of June seriously beaten by policemen under instruction from the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Raymond Ede.
		The journalists, Alhaji Shittu Tella, the Kebbi State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Yunusa Garba, a Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) correspondent; and Mallam Ahmed Talib, of the Kebbi State owned radio had gone to Ambursa town, where the state governor was attending the launching of this year's fertilizer distribution.
		The state NUJ subsequently gave a seven-day ultimatum within which the state police command was to apologise without which the journalists promised to take appropriate action.
	mediarightsagenda.org /attjul02.html (808 words)

	Nasarawa State University Holds First Convocation Ceremony
		The ancient city of Keffi went agog this Saturday when the state university held its first convocation ceremony in honour of it first graduating class.
		The ceremony which dwarfed many ceremonies that have been held in Nasarawa state for many years, saw the award of honourary doctorate degrees to six distinguished Nigerians.
		They were the Emir of Keffi â€“ Mohammed Chindo Yamusa; the governor of Rivers state â€“ Peter Odili; governor of Ondo state â€“ Olusegun Agagu; governor of Kebbi State â€“ Mohammed Aleiro; former defence minister â€“ Theophilus Danjuma and distinguished banker â€“ Cecilia Ibru.
	www.nasarawastate.org /news1/10219110236.htm (267 words)

	Media Rights Agenda...Promoting and Protecting Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Nigeria
		Femi Shodunke, the Ogun State correspondent of The Comet newspapers was on September 11 locked up for over four hours by officials of the Ogun State Board of Internal Revenue in Abeokuta while investigating a case of fraud involving top hierarchy of the parastatal.
		He stated that at the office, he was given a form to fill when he requested to see the board Chairman, Mr.
		Johnson Elegbede stated that the vendors were arrested on the allegation that they were circulating foreign and home pornographic magazines.
	mediarightsagenda.org /attsept02.html (612 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Jokolo is a Security Risk, Kebbi Govt Tells Court (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The allegation was contained in a counter-affidavit filed by Kebbi State Government to oppose his request for transfer from his cell to National Hospital for medical attention.
		The former Emir of Gwandu, Al-Mustapha Jokolo was deposed and banished to Nassarawa State.
		The state further said that upon being brought to the National Hospital pursuant to the court order of last April 6, Jokolo left the hospital without the knowledge of the security details assigned to him and has not returned to Obi, Nasarawa State, the place of his lawful banishment.
	allafrica.com /stories/200701220954.html (513 words)

	More petitions before Election Tribunals
		Meanwhile, in Kaduna State the Tribunal had adjourned its first two cases, which resumed on 14 and 15 May. The adjournment was sequel to an application by the counsel to Isaiah Ballat, Senator-elect in the dispute, who stated that his client was not properly served with the petition.
		In Rivers State, the ANPP Gubernatorial candidate, Sergeant Awuse and his House of Representatives counterpart, Pat Ajudua, have filed separate motions at the Election Tribunal sitting in Port Harcourt, asking that they be allowed access to poling documents.
		The Kebbi State Tribunal, which will commence sitting next week, has also received six petitions from PDP candidates against their ANPP opponents, challenging the credibility of their election into the National Assembly.
	www.nigeriafirst.org /printer_519.shtml (422 words)

	Nigeria - Community Based Poverty Reduction Project
		The beneficiary states are Abia, Ekiti, Cross River, Kebbi, Kogi, and Yobe state.
		Effective and responsiveness by the project management unit at the state level is also a major contribution to the success.
		Kebbi State has completed 272 sub-projects of which there are 145 education projects; 53 water projects, 22 health projects; 19 road and culverts projects; 13 electricity projects and 20 others including environmental projects, commercial markets and a training center.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/NIGERIAEXTN/0,,contentMDK:20625815~menuPK:1826977~pagePK:1497618~piPK:217854~theSitePK:368896,00.html (893 words)

	Campaign to End Fistula - UNFPA
		The 30-year-old obstetric gynaecologist was born in Britain to Nigerian parents and is one of four international surgical volunteers taking part in the two-week pilot project in northern Nigeria.
		BIRNIN KEBBI, Nigeria, 22 February 2005—Sadiya, a 22-year-old Hausa woman from Kebbi State, Nigeria, developed a fistula during her first delivery at the age of 18.
		After several hours of labour, alone and unsupervised, Sadiya was transported to a nearby hospital where, with the assistance of a nurse, she delivered a baby boy.
	www.endfistula.org /fortnight/stories.htm (448 words)

	Sokoto State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sokoto State is located to the extreme Northwest of Nigeria between longitudes 4Â° 8âE and 6Â° 54âE and between latitudes 12Â°N and 13Â° 58âN. By its location, it shapes boundaries with the Republic of Niger to the North, Kebbi State to the west and southwest and Zamfara State to the east.
		Although one of the ten states with high population, it is amongst the ten with the lowest population density in Nigeria.
		Sokoto State is known for its peace and tranquility, that is why it is regarded as one of the most peaceful.
	www.talknaija.co.uk /sokoto.html (1165 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		Ibrahim Shekarau, the governor of Kano State said late Aliero left a worthy legacy having brought up and trained a dynamic leader in the person of Governor Aliero who has been selflessly serving the people of Kebbi State and making meaningful contribution to the socio-economic and political development of Nigeria.
		Among the early callers at the governor's family house in Aliero to condole the Kebbi governor were Shehu Shagari, former Nigerian president, Aliyu Muhammed Gusau, former National Security Adviser, Ibrahim Babangida, former military president, Ahmad Sani, governor of Zamfara State, Abdulkadir Kure, governor of Niger State and Umaru Aliyu Shinkafi, an ANPP stalwart.
		The deceased was buried in his hometown, Aliero, in Kebbi State September 10.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/bob/10924205606.htm (298 words)

	The governorship race in the North
		In at least three of these nine, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara, the PDP dominated the state legislature and the local government councils, the third of the three-tier government in the country.
		Instead, in the state is will be a test of will between Babangida who has reciprocated Kure’s loyalty, and Abuja, which is determined to humiliate Babangida as a payback for his widely suspected attempt to scuttle Obasanjo’s second bid for PDP’s ticket, an attempt which nearly succeeded.
		In these states, opposition forces are either non-existent or they are too divided among themselves to pose a formidable threat to the ruling party.
	www.gamji.com /haruna/haruna7.htm (2217 words)

	Women's rights Watch, Nigeria
		The Federal Government's new position is coming belatedly considering the fact that 12 of the 19 northern states are already implementing the legal system, it marks a significant turn-around in government's position and appears to underscore a new resolve to deal with the issue once and for all.
		The President stated that "council unanimously agreed that all states that have recently adopted Sharia should in the mean time revert to status quo ante.
		Incidentally, Shagari was absent at the Council of States meeting were the decision was taken and which had in attendance four former heads of states.
	www.rufarm.kabissa.org /campaigns/sharia.htm (1810 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Dakingari's Niche in Kebbi (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He recently swept the governorship primaries of the ANPP in Kebbi State and is set to succeed Governor Adamu Aliero in moving the state forward.
		Due to their obsession with the attractions of high office which they are more familiar with in their prolonged sojourns outside Kebbi State, they place more premium on the urban media, billboards, posters and occasional rowdy excursions into one or two local governments in their frantic campaigns to win the hearts of people.
		However, it is now evident that his "good friend" Governor Aliero and all the major stakeholders of the ANPP in Kebbi State saw in Saidu Dakingari, the ideal person to be given the democratic mantle of carrying on with the legacy of socio-economic development and transformation of the State established by Governor Aliero.
	allafrica.com /stories/200701180224.html (1360 words)

	Vanguard - Business : Kebbi State floats N3. 5billion bond
		He said however, that his administration had obtained federal government approval to raise to float the bond nine months ago but that it was just being actualised few months to the end of his term due to the long procedure involved.
		The irrigation, according to the governor was a joint project between the state and the federal in which the state and benefiting local government would fund 30 per cent of the total cost of N50billion.
		He added that his company accepted partner with Kebbi State government after being convinced of its prudent resources utilisation, saying that it was one of the very few state governments with a clean bill of health by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/business/december06/14122006/b114122006.html (513 words)

	The Sun News On-line/politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While others gunning for the governorship seat of Kebbi State, want to be rulers, Dr Hassan Kangiwa says he is aspiring to serve, promising to be a governor who will be responsible and responsive to the wishes and aspirations of the entire citizenry of Kebbi State.
		Their allowances, benefits and salaries will be paid and settle when due because the state is endowed with diligent and dedicated work force that needs to be encouraged for greater returns.
		For indigenes of the state in the federal institutions, their benefits and allowances will be pursued on their behalf.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/politics/2006/nov/22/politics-22-11-2006-004.htm (502 words)

	Resource Control In Nigeria: The Economic and Political Dimensions By Senator David Dafinone
		Expectedly, the Governors of the 17 southern states rose from its third summit in Benin City, the Edo State Capital, March 27, 2001, and proclaimed its preference for fiscal Federalism based on the principles of national interest, need and derivation.
		The action of the Federal Government in dragging the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory to the Supreme Court to seek judicial interpretation of the constitutional provision on the matter may turn out whatever the outcome, as an ill wind which could cause a tremour which the Federal Government cannot control.
		In States, land is vested on Governors to hold in trust for the people and in local government, to the chairman and the Traditional Rulers, also to hold in trust for the people.
	www.waado.org /NigerDelta/Essays/ResourceControl/Dafinone.html (2147 words)

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