
	Where results make sense

Topic: Sokoto

Related Topics

Sokoto Caliphate

Fulani War

Muhammed Bello

Usman dan Fodio

Sokoto Grand Vizier

Katsina

Yola, Nigeria

Nigerian

Kano

Oyo

Enugu

Shehu Shagari

Sir Frederick Lugard

Warri, Nigeria

Onitsha

In the News (Thu 12 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Sokoto - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The sultan of Sokoto throughout the 19th century exercised an overlordship over the Hausa states extending east from the Niger to Bornu and southward to the Benue and Adamawa.
		The province of Sokoto occupies the north-west corner of the British protectorate, and is bounded west and north by French territory.
		The emir of Sokoto took an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and Sokoto became a British province, to which at a later period Gando was added as a subprovince - thus making of Sokoto one of the double provinces of the protectorate.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sokoto (1569 words)

	Sokoto State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The state is named after its capital Sokoto, a city with a long history and the seat of the Sokoto Caliphate.
		During the reign of the Fulani Empire in the 19th century Sokoto was an important Fula state, in addition to being a city, of what was then west central Sudan.
		Sokoto State is in the dry Sahel, surrounded by sandy savannah and isolated hills.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sokoto_State (786 words)

	Sokoto State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		Sokoto State is drained by the Sokoto and Rina Rivers and their tributaries most of which rise from the southeast.
		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)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sokoto
		It is the trade center for a rice-growing region and is noted for its fiber, glass, and metal handicrafts.
		Bida was the capital of an emirate of the Muslim Fulani empire centered in Sokoto.
		The politics of history: the legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sokoto (445 words)

	Sokoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sokoto is the modern day capital of Sokoto State (and its predecessor, the Northwestern State).
		Being the seat of the Sokoto Caliphate, the city is predominantly Musliman and an important seat of Islamic learning in Nigeria.
		Sokoto is probably best known for its Islamic spiritual and educational environment, housing the Sultan's Palace, the large Shehu Mosque as well as numerous other mosques in the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sokoto (820 words)

	noma \| facing africa : Sokoto - Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1996, AWD-Stifung Kinderhilfe sent its first medical team to Sokoto, a remote and dusty town in a savannah region, just south of the Sahara in North West Nigeria to investigate the possibilities of establishing an ongoing humanitarian project for the surgical rehabilitation of children who had survived the ravages of Noma.
		The government of Sokoto State, in particular the Ministry of Health gave its generous support by starting the construction of a purpose built clinic for Noma victims.
		Each visiting spends two to three weeks in Sokoto and is generally able to perform 50 – 70 operations, mostly on children suffering the horrible and ongoing consequences of Noma as well some reconstructive operation on cleft lips and burns.
	www.facingafrica.org /en/pages/nigeria01.shtml (721 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sokoto (Nigeria Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Sokoto was founded in 1809 by Usuman dan Fodio, the Fulani leader who established a large Muslim empire including most of N Nigeria.
		In 1903, Sokoto fell to British forces under Frederick Lugard.
		The assassination of the Sultan of Sokoto in 1966 was a cause of the Nigerian civil war (see Biafra, Republic of).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sokoto.html (241 words)

	The Sokoto Caliphate and Nation-Building
		This International Conference on the Sokoto Caliphate and its Legacies, can only serve a useful purpose, if, right away, we locate it in the national, regional, and global, contexts, and circumstances, in which it is taking place, and locate its subject in the actual historical epoch in which it existed.
		The Sokoto Caliphate was a polity established in a particular historical epoch in which we have to place it, if we are to begin to grasp an important aspect of its contemporary significance.
		The Sokoto Jihad was one of the outstanding examples of these challenges, which transformed the old order over several continents in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
	www.dawodu.com /usman2.htm (3318 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The topography of the state is dominated by rolling peneplain which rises from an elevations of 300 metres to an average height of 450 metres in the South-West.
		Sokoto State teas since its creation given birth to the present Kebbi and Zamfara States and today comprises of 22 local government areas.
		Sokoto State is essentially an agricultural state with traditional mode of production predominating and more than 90 percent of the population engaged in subsistence farming.
	www.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_state_sokoto.aspx (577 words)

	The Sokoto Caliphate and its legacies
		The Sokoto Caliphate was a loose confederation of emirates that recognized the leadership of Usman Dan Fodio as "Commander of the Faithful." By mid-19th century there were about 30 emirates linked to Sokoto, including the large market state of Kano.
		The sultan of Sokoto (Siddiq Abubakar III) continued to be regarded as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community of Nigeria.
		Kano scholars, jurists, and reliogious leaders, drawing their inspiration from the Sokoto Founders but using their own sense of consensus and interpretation, were not inclined to follow blindly the dictates of any central authority.
	www.dawodu.com /paden1.htm (2982 words)

	Sokoto - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sokoto, city in Nigeria, capital of Sokoto State, near the confluence of the Rima and Sokoto rivers.
		Ilorin, an associated Muslim caliphate, rise of Sokoto Caliphate
		Nigeria’s modern literature grows out of a tradition of storytelling and historical remembrance that has existed in Nigeria for millennia.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Sokoto.html (79 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Governor Bafarawa of Sokoto State actually said "I receive enough money from Federal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I was told that the governor's SSG or SSA (Secretary to the Sokoto Government or whatever, I d on't know) said he was still asleep.
		It is not only that these states receive a lot more money than Sokoto State, it is the carcasses of abandoned projects and unpaid workers that exacerbate the lie behind their corruption.
		In fact, during the case of Safiya Husaini, (the young woman who was sentenced to death by stoning by a Sokoto Sharia court)" the Governor began, "I decided not to say anything at all.
	nigeriaworld.com /articles/2004/oct/071.html (1910 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Sokoto in mourning after plane crash
		The Sultan of Sokoto was the spiritual leader of Nigeria's 70m Muslims and Sultan Maccido was particularly well respected for his efforts to end conflict between Nigeria's Muslims and Christians.
		The new sultan will be chosen from Sokoto's ruling dynasty - descendents of Uthman Dan Fodio, who launched a jihad, or holy war, in 1804, spreading Islam across northern Nigeria and its neighbours.
		His son, Muhammed Bello, established the empire's capital in Sokoto and it has remained the centre of Nigerian Islam ever since, with its huge mosque opposite the sultan's palace.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/6099856.stm (622 words)

	Nigeria - Kano and Sokoto Agricultural Development Projects - Operations Evaluation Department - The World Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A combined audit of six of them, including Kano and Sokoto, was conducted in 1993, and concluded that the project targets were unrealistic and based on unproven technological assumptions, that there was too little emphasis on farmers' production priorities, and that the institutional structure led to a top-down effort and overemphasis on physical targets.
		The local community leaders surveyed indicated that, in their view, people in their villages are better off today than they were a decade ago as a result of the dry season cropping.
		In Sokoto State, where population densities are relatively low, and access to fadama land is widespread, leaders said that almost all households are better off as a result of the changes.
	lnweb18.worldbank.org /oed/oeddoclib.nsf/DocUNIDViewForJavaSearch/996144D276B46FD4852567F5005D12BD?opendocument (3594 words)

	Sultan, son, 2 senators, 94 others die in plane crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sultan of Sokoto died along with 97 others aboard an ADC Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft that crashed in the course of a storm, minutes after take-off from the Abuja airport.
		Garba Muhammed, the deputy governor of Sokoto State; Abdulrahman Shehu Shagari, son of former president Shehu Shagari, and Sanusi Usman Junaid, commissioner of education, Sokoto State were also among the victims.
		The remains of the late Sultan were laid to rest in Sokoto yesterday, according to muslim rites, with eminent personalities in attendance.
	www.businessdayonline.com /?c=45&a=9373 (522 words)

	Britain Sokoto Conquest 1903
		His objective was to conquer the entire region and to obtain recognition of the British protectorate by its indigenous rulers, especially the Fulani emirs of the Sokoto Caliphate.
		The fall of this great city and that of Sokoto in March, 1903, was followed by the submission of the minor Emirates, and convinced those which had already submitted that their belief that the British would be exterminated by these powerful Emirs was vain.
		When this had been accomplished, and the forces of disorder had been broken, the British Administration was faced with the insistent urgency of creating a new organisation and of developing a native policy without delay.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/sierra/sokotocaliphate1903.htm (866 words)

	SA3: Sokoto
		The authors of this short notice are currently involved in the recovery of documentation on the conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate, the largest state in Africa at the time of the European partition of the continent at the end of the nineteenth century.
		The difficulty of recovering material was complicated by the creation of new political boundaries and the use of three European languages in the subsequent colonial history of the former territory of the Sokoto Caliphate.
		Carnegie was an early Resident in Ilorin Emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate, and was killed in action within in 1902.
	www.hf.uib.no /smi/sa/3Sokoto.html (2225 words)

	Sokoto Caliphate - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sokoto Caliphate, sometimes referred to as the “Fulani Empire”, ruled the Hausa lands of northern Nigeria for most of the 19th century.
		France united footholds on the coast with vast holdings of interior grasslands and desert....
		Sokoto, city, capital of Sokoto State, north-western Nigeria, western Africa.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Sokoto_Caliphate.html (110 words)

	Nigeria: SOKOTO STATE - Sokoto State
		The then Sokoto Caliphate was founded by a group of committed men led by the universally acknowledged Islamic scholar, Shehu Usmanu Danfodiyo, who sought to establish a political system based on the principles of universal justice.
		After the conquest, Sokoto Caliphate was broken into provinces, consisting of one or more emirates, to form part of the Northern Region of Nigeria.
		The Sokoto East senatorial district is composed of Isa, Sabon Bimi, Wurno, Goronyo, Rabah, Gada, Illela and Gwadabawa local government areas.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/sokotostateadv.asp?blurb=368 (573 words)

	SOKOTO - Online Information article about SOKOTO
		The Sokoto or Fula empire was founded at the beginning of the loth century.
		Clapperton, an Englishman, was at Sokoto in 1823 and again in 1827, dying there on the 13th of See also:
		market place of Sokoto, and the incident was chiefly interesting for the display of loyalty to the British administration which it evoked on all sides from the native rulers.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SOKOTO.html (2423 words)

	The Sokoto truce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Three, the proponents of Shar'ia hope to harness the momentum generated by its implementation at the regional level and catapult it to the national stage.
		He had declared at the launching of a book on Shar'ia in Sokoto, that his audience should ensure they vote only for a candidate who would defend their faith.
		The significance of the Sokoto truce is that it shows the desperation of the feudal establishment in the North to capture power by all means, even when it has no credible candidate.
	nigerdeltacongress.com /sarticles/sokoto_truce.htm (1002 words)

	Nigeria - Usman dan Fodio and the Sokoto Caliphate
		The new state that arose during Usman dan Fodio's jihad came to be known as the Sokoto Caliphate, named after his capital at Sokoto, founded in 1809.
		By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were thirty emirates and the capital district of Sokoto, which itself was a large and populous territory although not technically an emirate.
		By the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Sokoto Caliphate was at its greatest extent, it stretched 1,500 kilometers from Dori in modern Burkina Faso to southern Adamawa in Cameroon and included Nupe lands, Ilorin in northern Yorubaland, and much of the Benue River valley.
	countrystudies.us /nigeria/9.htm (831 words)

	Sokoto News
		Kano - The spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslim community, the Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammadu Maccido, was among those killed in an air crash in Abuja on Sunday, a Sokoto government spokesman said.
		FORMER Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, and former Minister of Finance, Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, are among top contenders for the Sultanate following the death of the 19th Sultan of Sokoto in the ADC...
		The 19th Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Maccido Abubakar III, his son, Senator Badamosi Maccido and grandchild, Umar Maccido were among 98 passengers and crew who perished yesterday aboard ADC Boeing 737 aircraft...
	www.topix.net /ng/sokoto (705 words)

	sokoto-state
		Sokoto State had for long been one of the educationally backward in term of the number of schools; primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
		There were not enough schools, classrooms were inadequate, the standard of facilities and services were not encouraging, and teachers’ morale was low due to irregular payment of salaries and benefits, lack of training opportunities and absence of incentives for hardworking ones.
		The death of the Sokoto state commissioner of forestry and Animal health, Alh.
	www.sokoto-state.com /index.html (1005 words)

	Plane crash: Sultan, Deputy Gov, 96 Others Die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among the dead in the Sunday tragedy are one Deputy Governor, Garba Muhammed (Sokoto); two Senators from Sokoto State, Badamasi Maccido and Sule Yari Ghandi; the state’s Education Commissioner, Sanusi Usman Junaidu; and Nigerian Ports Authority Executive Director, Uaisu Yaro.
		Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, confirmed in a broadcast the deaths of Maccido, Badamasi, Gandi and Junaidu, all from his domain.
		Senator Umaru Dahiru, the third Senator from Sokoto, said in a telephone interview: "This is a tragedy for (the state).
	www.independentngonline.com /news/128/ARTICLE/14139/2006-10-30.html (969 words)

	Christian Women Targeted in Nigeria's Sokoto State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		SOKOTO, Nigeria (Compass) -- Muslim extremists have been deliberately targeting Christian women for rape in northern Nigeria's Sokoto state since the introduction of the Islamic legal code, or "sharia," Christian leaders there say.
		"There is intimidation of Christians and pastors within Sokoto metropolis in different ways, such as ejection from houses with little or no notice, harassment and increased cases of rape, especially on Christian ladies," Pastor Momo James said.
		The Sokoto state government adopted and began the implementation of the Islamic legal code in May 2000, disregarding protests by Christians that the system would lead to discrimination.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/compass-nigeria-women-targeted.html (153 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)