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    Gongola State is a former administrative division of Nigeria. It was created on 3 February 1976 from the Adamawa and Sardauna Provinces of North State...
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    The Gongola River is in northeastern Nigeria, the principal tributary of the Benue River. The upper course of the river as well as most of its tributaries...
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  • governors of Gongola State. Gongola State was formed on 1976-02-03 when North-Eastern State was divided into Bauchi, Borno, and Gongola states. In 1991-08-27...
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  • February 1976 when North-Eastern State was divided into Bauchi, Borno, and Gongola states. States of Nigeria List of state governors of Nigeria "Late Brigadier...
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    the General Ibrahim Badamsi Babangida military regime, when the former Gongola state was divided into Adamawa and Taraba states. Since then, Adamawa State...
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  • February 1976 when North-Eastern State was divided into Bauchi, Borno, and Gongola states. States of Nigeria List of state governors of Nigeria "Bauchi State...
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    state and Gongola state, and rename the North-Eastern state to Borno state. The North-Eastern state was divided into Bauchi, Borno and Gongola states. Gombe...
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    governors of Adamawa State, Nigeria, which was formed on 1991-08-27 when Gongola State was divided into Adamawa and Taraba states. Political party:   NRC...
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  • governors of Taraba State, Nigeria. Taraba State was created out of the former Gongola State on 27 August 1991 by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida...
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  • This is a list of governors of former Nigerian states. This is a list of administrators and governors of Bendel State, Nigeria. Mid-Western region was...
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  • Plateau states; North-Eastern state divided into Bauchi (Bauchi), Borno, and Gongola (Yola) states; Niger (Minna) state split from Sokoto; Western state divided...
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  • ethnic group in the Hong local government area of Adamawa State (formerly Gongola State) in Nigeria. In the past, Həba lived in large clan-based mountain...
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    states of Borno for 93 km in the vicinity of Gongola River and Lake Dadin Kowa and Yobe in the vicinity of Gongola River for 140 km, to the south by Taraba...
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  • Entity Abia State 27 August 1991 Imo State Adamawa State 27 August 1991 Gongola State Akwa Ibom State 23 September 1987 Cross River State Anambra State...
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    state is watered by a number of rivers. They include the Gongola and Jama'are rivers. The Gongola River crosses Bauchi state in Tafawa Balewa Local Government...
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    Bantaji River (Suntai River) Wase River Taraba River Kam River Pai River Gongola River Hawal River Faro River Gurara River Kaduna River Mariga River Tubo...
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    meeting the Niger River at Lokoja. Large tributaries are the Faro River, the Gongola River and the Mayo Kébbi, which connects it with the Logone River (part...
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    the North Eastern State was divided into three states Bauchi, Borno and Gongola. Buhari then became the first Governor of Borno State from 3 February 1976...
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  • The 1979 Gongola State gubernatorial election occurred on 28 July 1979. GNPP's Abubakar Barde won election for a first term to become Gongola State's first...
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  • Nigeria. It is a port town that lies on the confluence of Benue River and Gongola River. The predominant ethnic group in the town are the Bwatiye (Bachama)...
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    traveled through various places including Kordofan, Fitri, Mandara, and the Gongola area before reaching the Benue region. Anthropologist C.K. Meek documented...
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    Kaduna Kaduna Katsina North Western Niger Sokoto Kebbi Sokoto Sokoto Zamfara North Eastern Bauchi Bauchi Gombe Borno Borno Yobe Gongola Adamawa Taraba...
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  • retained its name but was now smaller in area. Exceptions were the old Gongola State which was split into Adamawa State and Taraba State, and Kogi State...
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    is the source of many rivers in northern Nigeria, including the Kaduna, Gongola, Hadeja and Damaturu rivers. The Jos Plateau is thought to be an area of...
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  • and Songhai. The Bolewa speakers were found all over the banks of the Gongola River, occupying various communities in the west and north-west areas of...
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  • Kefas was born on 12 November 1970, in Wukari, Taraba State (formally Gongola State), Nigeria. He is a younger brother of the late Air Commodore Ibrahim...
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    completed in 1972. He proceeded to Comprehensive Secondary School Mubi in then Gongola, now Adamawa State from 1973 to 1978 where he obtained his Secondary School...
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    languages in the State. The Taraba state was created out of the former Gongola state on 27 August 1991 by the military government of General Ibrahim Badamasi...
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  • World Heritage List inscription, the Yadin Waterfalls, the Kiri Dam on the Gongola River, the Benue national park in nearby Cameroon, the Waza National Park...
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    with the goal of providing irrigation and electricity for the planned Gongola sugar plantation project. The reservoir which is designed to have a water...
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