The state was created on Tuesday August 27, 1991, when the Federal Military Government under the General Ibrahim Babangida announced the creation of nine additional states in the country bringing the total number of states then to thirty. The announcement was given a legal backing through the; State Creation and Transitional Provisions Decree No. 37 of 1991.
Excised from Kano State it covers a total land area of about 22,410sq Km. It is bordered on the West by Kano State, on the ...read more
East by Bauchi and Yobe States and on the North by Katsina and Yobe States and the Republic of Niger.
Ethnic Composition
The state is mainly populated by the Hausa, Fulani and the Mangawa, Badawa and Ngizimawa which are dialects of the kanuri language. They constitute significant percentages in Birniwa, Guri and Kiri kasamma local government areas. There are other settled tribes both from within and outside Nigeria inhibiting in almost all the local Government areas of the state with the highest concentration in the state capital.
With a centrally controlled Government from the state capital Dutse, the state has twenty seven (27) local government council’s three senatorial Districts, eleven Federal constituencies and thirty (30) state assembly constituencies as enshrined in the 1999 constitution of the federal Republic of Nigeria.
As presently constituted by the 1999 constitution, the Executive arm is headed by the state Governor, Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar as the chief Executive elected under the All Progressive Congress (APC) and is principally in charge of day to day running of its affairs with his deputy Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia and members of the state Executive council assisting. The Legislature which is responsible for law making is headed by the Speaker Honorable Idris Garba (Kareka) with other House leaders supporting him while the Judiciary charged with interpreting laws has the chief Judge, Justice Aminu Sabo as the State Chief Judge and is equally the chairman of the state judicial service commission.
As it is the Executive arm which is in charge of the day to running of state affairs is organized into ministries, Agencies and Parastatals. All the ministries have active programs that focus on education, economic and Agricultural development, land management, environmental protection and human related activities. Policy decisions are taken by the Executive council and the responsibility of implementing such lies with commissioners through their respective ministries and Agenci
