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Politician. engineer. Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde ( Listen ⓘ; born 25 December 1967) is a Nigerian engineer, businessman and politician who has served as governor of Oyo State since 2019. [1] [2] [3] He is an engineer and a subject matter expert on fluid and gas metering. [4] He is the group managing director of Makon Group Limited; an indigenous ...
The government of Northern Nigeria was modelled after the Westminster system. A premier acts as head of government and presides over the day-to-day affairs of government, while a governor acts as head of state and commander-in-chief of the constabulary. [1] [2] The Lower house of parliament, called the House of Assembly, is composed of elected ...
Map of Nigeria. Lagos, Lagos. Kano, Kano State, second-most populous city by census 2006. Ibadan, Oyo State, third-most populous. This is a list of populated places in Nigeria. Cities in bold are among the fourteenth-most populous in the country (covered in more detail at List of Nigerian cities by population ): Port Harcourt City Center ...
511,660. Governor before election. Aminu Tambuwal. APC. Elected Governor. Aminu Tambuwal. PDP. The 2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on March 9, 2019. Incumbent Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal won re-election for a second term, defeating Ahmad Aliyu of the APC and several minor party candidates.
North East (Nigeria) The North East (often hyphenated to the North-East) is the one of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria representing both a geographic and political region of the country's northeast. It comprises six states – Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe . Geographically, the North East is the largest geopolitical zone ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Iran–Israel proxy conflict. 2024 Iran–Israel conflict. 2024 Iranian strikes in Israel, Iran–Japan relations. Japan increases its four-stage danger ranking level for most of Iran, including Tehran, to Level 3, which urges Japanese citizens to avoid all travel to Iran. ( The Japan News) War in Sudan. Battle of ...
The Great Nigeria People's Party was one of the six major political parties that fielded candidates for elections in the Nigerian Second Republic. The party was formed by a splinter group from the Nigerian People's Party, the group was led by Waziri Ibrahim, a politician and businessman from Borno. Waziri was one of the leaders of the three ...
Female empowerment in Nigeria is an economic process that involves empowering Nigerian women as a poverty reduction measure. [1] [2] Empowerment is the development of women in terms of politics, social and economic strength in nation development. It is also a way of reducing women's vulnerability and dependency in all spheres of life.