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Katsina, the Glossary

Katsina, likely from "Tamashek" (meaning son or blood) or mazza (men) with "inna" (mother) is a Local Government Area and the capital city of Katsina State, in northern Nigeria.^[1]

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Emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate
Local Government Areas in Katsina State
State capitals in Nigeria

Abdulmumini Kabir Usman

Abdulmumini Kabir Usman (born 9 January 1952) is the Emir of Katsina.

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Al-Qalam University

Al-Qalam University, Katsina (AUK), formerly known as Katsina University, Katsina (KUK) is located in Dutsinma Road, Katsina State.

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Aminu Bello Masari (born 29 May 1950) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Katsina State from 2015 to 2023. He was the Commissioner for works, housing and transport Katsina state from 1991 to 1993. He was the speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007. Masari hails from Masari village of Kafur local government area of Katsina State.

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Bakori

Bakori is a local government area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Bakori are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Bala Usman

Yusufu Bala Usman (1945 – 24 September 2005) was a Nigerian historian and politician, who was one of the scholars who shaped Nigerian historiography.

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Batagarawa

Batagarawa is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Batagarawa are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Batsari

Batsari is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Batsari are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Baure, Nigeria

Baure is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria, sharing a border with the Republic of Niger. Katsina and Baure, Nigeria are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Bindawa

Bindawa is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Bindawa are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Charanchi

Charanchi (or Cheranchi) is a town and Local Government Area (LGA) in Katsina State, northern Nigeria. Katsina and Charanchi are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Dan Marina

Muhammad ibn al-Sabbagh (fl. 1640), also known as Dan Marina, was a 17th-century Islamic scholar from Katsina.

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Dan Musa

Dan Musa is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Dan Musa are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Dandume

Dandume (or Dan Dume) is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Dandume are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Danja, Nigeria

Danja is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Danja, Nigeria are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Daura

Daura is a town and local government area in Katsina State, northern Nigeria. Katsina and Daura are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Deutscher Wetterdienst

The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Service, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational, hydrometeorological or agricultural purposes.

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Dikko Umar Radda

Dikko Umar Radda (born 10 September 1969) is a Nigerian economist and politician who is the current governor of Katsina State since 2023.

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Dutsi, Nigeria

Dutsi is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Dutsi, Nigeria are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Dutsin-Ma

Dutsin-Ma is a Local Government Area (LGA) in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Dutsin-Ma are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Faskari

Faskari is a town and Local Government Area (LGA) in Katsina State, northern Nigeria. Katsina and Faskari are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Federal College of Education, Katsina

The Federal College of Education, Katsina is a federal government higher education institution located in Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria.

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Federal Medical Centre, Katsina

Federal Medical Centre, Katsina is a federal government of Nigeria medical centre located in Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria.

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Fula people

The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Funtua

Funtua is a local government area in Katsina State, Nigeria, and is headquartered in the town of Funtua on the A126 highway. Katsina and Funtua are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Gobarau Minaret

The Gobarau Minaret (var. Gobirau, Goborau) is a minaret located in the center of the city of Katsina, northern Nigeria.

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Hassan Katsina

Hassan Usman Katsina (31 March 1933 – 24 July 1995), titled Chiroman Katsina, was a Nigerian general who was the last Governor of Northern Nigeria.

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Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic

Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic (HUKP) is a state polytechnic in Katsina, Katsina is located some 260 kilometers (160mil) east of the city of Sokoto and 135 kilometers' (84mil) northwest of Kano, close to the border with Niger.

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Hausa Kingdoms

Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausa Kingdom or Hausaland, was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihad.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast.

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Hausa people

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.

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Ingawa

Ingawa is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Ingawa are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Jibia

Jibia (or Jibiya) is a town and Local Government Area (LGA) in Katsina State, northern Nigeria. Katsina and Jibia are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Jihad of Usman dan Fodio

The Jihad of Usman dan Fodio was a religio-military conflict in present-day Nigeria and Cameroon.

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Kafur, Nigeria

Kafur is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Kafur, Nigeria are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Kaita, Nigeria

Kaita is a local government area in Katsina State, Nigeria, sharing a border in the north with the Republic of Niger. Katsina and Kaita, Nigeria are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Kankara

Kankara is a Local government area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Kankara are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Kankia

Kankia (or Kankiya) is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Kankia are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Kano (city)

Kano (Ajami: كَنُواْ) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State. Katsina and Kano (city) are Cities in Nigeria and state capitals in Nigeria.

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Katsina State

Katsina State (Jihar Katsina جىهر كثينا; Leydi Katsina 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞥁𞤭𞤲𞤢) is a state in the northwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kurfi

Kurfi is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Kurfi are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Kusada

Kusada is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Kusada are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Local government areas of Nigeria

Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs), each administered by a local government council consisting of a chairman, who is the chief executive, and other elected members, who are referred to as councillors.

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Mai'Adua

Mai'Adua city (or Birnin Maiaduwa) is a city in Katsina state and a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria, sharing a border with the Republic of Niger. Katsina and Mai'Adua are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Malumfashi

Malumfashi (or Malum Fashi) is a local government in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Malumfashi are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Mani, Nigeria

Mani is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Mani, Nigeria are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Mashi

Mashi is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria, sharing a border with the Republic of Niger. Katsina and Mashi are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Matazu

Matazu is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Matazu are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fulani al-Kishwani

Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fulani al-Kishnawi was a prominent 18th century Fulani scholar, mathematician, astrologer, Arabic grammarian and jurist from Katsina, present-day Northern Nigeria.

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Muhammadu Dikko

Alhaji Muhammadu Dikko also known as Muhammad Dikko dan Gidado (1865 – May 1944), was the 47th Emir of Katsina from 9 November 1906 until his death in 1944.

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Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu

Alhaji Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu, also known as MD Yusufu or MD Yusuf (November 10, 1931 – April 1, 2015) was a Nigerian policeman, Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force, public servant and politician.

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Musawa

Musawa is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Musawa are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Northern Region, Nigeria

Northern Nigeria (or Arewancin Nijeriya) was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures.

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Postal code

A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.

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Rimi, Nigeria

Rimi is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Rimi, Nigeria are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Sabuwa

Sabuwa (or Sabua) is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Sabuwa are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Safana

Safana is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Safana are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Saidu Barda

Alhaji Sa'idu Barda is a Nigerian politician who was elected on the National Republican Convention (NRC) platform as Governor of Katsina State, Nigeria, holding office between January 1992 and November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic.

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Sandamu

Sandamu is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Katsina and Sandamu are local Government Areas in Katsina State.

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Shehu Musa Yar'Adua

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua (5 March 1943 – 8 December 1997) was a Nigerian general and politician who was the de facto vice president of Nigeria as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters when Nigeria was under military rule from 1976 to 1979. He was a prominent politician during the later transition from military to civilian rule in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.

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Sokoto

Sokoto is a major city located in extreme north-western Nigeria, near the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River. Katsina and Sokoto are Cities in Nigeria and state capitals in Nigeria.

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Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain.

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Standard time

Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard.

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States of Nigeria

Nigeria is a federation of 36 states.

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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 19515 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He had previously served as the governor of Katsina State from 1999 to 2007; and was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Umaru Musa Yar'adua University

Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University (UMYU), formerly Katsina State University, was established by the Katsina State Government in 2006, to "serve as a nucleus for socio-economic, technological and political development of the State by producing highly skilled human resource through conventional face-to-face and distance learning modes." Umaru Musa Yar'adua, then the executive governor of Katsina State and later the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, began the work of creating the university before his death in 2010.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsina

Also known as Katsena, Katsena (town), Katsina, Katsina State, Katsina, Nigeria.

, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fulani al-Kishwani, Muhammadu Dikko, Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu, Musawa, Muslims, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Region, Nigeria, Postal code, Rimi, Nigeria, Sabuwa, Safana, Saidu Barda, Sandamu, Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, Sokoto, Sorghum, Standard time, States of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Vigna subterranea, Zango, Nigeria, Zazzau.

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See also

Emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate

Local Government Areas in Katsina State

State capitals in Nigeria

References