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Solomon Lar, the Glossary

Chief (Dr.) Solomon Daushep Lar (4 April 1933 – 9 October 2013) (Walin Langtang) was a Nigerian politician who has held various offices at the National level for over 50 years.^[1]

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Governors of Plateau State
National Working Committee chairs

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (December 1912 – 15 January 1966) was a Nigerian politician who served as the first and only prime minister of Nigeria upon independence.

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Ahmadu Bello University

The Ahmadu Bello University (popularly known as ABU) is a public research university located in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Aliyu Doma

Aliyu Akwe Doma (1 September 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a Nigerian civil servant who became governor of Nasarawa State in May, 2007, standing for the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

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Anthony Anenih

Anthony Akhakon "Tony" Anenih (4 August 1933 – 28 October 2018) was a Nigerian politician who was Minister of Works and Housing in 1999.

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Atiku Abubakar (born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician and businessman who served as the vice president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo. He ran for the office of governor of Adamawa State in 1990 and 1996 unsuccessfully, but won in 1998. Before he was sworn in, he was selected as running mate to former military leader, Olusegun Obasanjo, during the 1999 presidential election and was re-elected in 2003.

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Barnabas Andyar Gemade

Barnabas Andyar Iyorhyer Gemade (born 4 September 1948) is a Nigerian politician who was former national chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and former senator. Solomon Lar and Barnabas Andyar Gemade are national Working Committee chairs.

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Colonial Nigeria

Colonial Nigeria was ruled by the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1 October 1960 when Nigeria achieved independence.

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Federal Ministries of Nigeria

The Federal Ministries of Nigeria are civil service departments that are responsible for delivering various government services.

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Fourth Nigerian Republic

The Fourth Republic is the current republican government of Nigeria.

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Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015.

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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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Ibrahim Babangida

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born 17 August 1941) is a Nigerian statesman and military dictator who ruled as military president of Nigeria from 1985 when he orchestrated a coup d'état against his military and political arch-rival Muhammadu Buhari, until his resignation in 1993 as a result of the post-June 12, 1993 election which he illegally nullified.

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Jarawa language (Nigeria)

Jarawa (also known as Jar, Jara, or in Hausa: Jaranci) is the most populous of the Bantu languages of northern Nigeria.

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Jos

Jos is a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria.

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Joshua Anaja

Joshua Umaru Anaja was the military governor of Plateau State, Nigeria from July 1978 to October 1979 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo. Solomon Lar and Joshua Anaja are governors of Plateau State.

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Lagos

Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.

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Langtang, Nigeria

Langtang is a town and LGA in Plateau State, Nigeria.

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List of governors of Plateau State

This is a list of administrators and governors of Plateau State Nigeria. Solomon Lar and list of governors of Plateau State are governors of Plateau State.

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Middle Belt

The Middle Belt (also spelt Middle-Belt) or Central Nigeria is a term used in human geography to designate a belt region stretching across central Nigeria longitudinally and forming a transition zone between Northern and Southern Nigeria.

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Middle Belt Forum

The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) is a regional socio-political group in Nigeria that seeks to promote the interests of the people of the Middle Belt region, a loosely defined area in the northcentral region of Nigeria.

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Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian statesman who served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.

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Murtala Muhammed

Murtala Ramat Muhammed (8 November 1938 – 13 February 1976) was a Nigerian general and head of state, who led the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup in overthrowing the Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi military regime and featured prominently during the Nigerian Civil War and thereafter ruled Nigeria from 29 July 1975 until his assassination on 13 February 1976.

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Nigerian Civil War

The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon, and Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu.

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Nigerian People's Party

The Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP) was one of the major political parties that contested elections in the Nigerian Second Republic.

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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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Olusegun Obasanjo

Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo (Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́; born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian general and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007.

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Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress.

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Plateau State

Plateau State is a north central Nigerian state.

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Samuel Atukum

Samuel Bitrus Atukum (born 1940) was the military governor of Plateau State, Nigeria from January 1984 to August 1985 during the military regime of General Muhammadu Buhari. Solomon Lar and Samuel Atukum are governors of Plateau State.

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Sani Abacha

Sani Abacha ((20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled Nigeria with an iron-fist as the military head of state from 1993 following a palace coup d'état until his sudden death in 1998. Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.

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Second Nigerian Republic

The Second Nigerian Republic was a brief formation of the Nigerian state which succeeded the military governments formed after the overthrow of the first republic.

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The Social Democratic Party of Nigeria (SDP) is a centre-left political party in Nigeria.

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References

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

Also known as Solomon Daushep Lar.

Solomon Lar, the Glossary

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Governors of Plateau State

National Working Committee chairs

References