Shinkafi is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State of Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Shinkafi an area of about 674mk2 and population of 135,649 (2006 Census). It shares boundaries with Isa Local Government Area (Sokoto State) and Niger Republic from the north, Zurmi Local Government Area to the South and South-East, Maradun Local Government Area and Raba Local Government Area (Sokoto State) by the west. Distance from the State Capital, Gusau is approximately 116 km.
Shinkafi is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State of Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Shinkafi an area of about 674mk2 and population of...
Alhaji Mamud Aliyu Shinkafi is a Nigerian politician. He was elected governor of Zamfara State in 2007 on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) slate. Later...
Umaru Shinkafi (19 January 1937 – 6 July 2016) was a Nigerian intelligence chief, and Federal Commissioner of Internal Affairs. He was a presidential aspirant...
Bukkuyum and Talata Mafara Local Governments areas. Gobirawa populated Shinkafi Local Government. Gobirawa actually migrated from the Gobir Kingdom. Burmawa...
Zainab Shinkafi Bagudu (born 27 March 1968) is a women's health and cancer awareness advocate, Founder of MedicAid Cancer Foundation, she advocates for...
200 people including women and children were killed. Turji was born in Shinkafi local government of Zamfara State, Northern Nigeria. Turji was raised as...
Progressives Grand Alliance. Shinkafi was born in Shinkafi, Shinkafi LGA, Zamfara State. From 1976 to 1982, he went to Shinkafi Township Primary School, Zamfara...
University Sokoto Shehu shagari University of Education, Sokoto Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic Sokoto Usman Danfodio University of Sokoto Agriculture is the...
appointed Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi a former commissioner of police in Oyo state, as the new director general of the NSO. The Shinkafi-led NSO had the difficult...
Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, Marafan Sokoto and her mother is Shinkafi’s daughter and a sister to the former Governor of Zamfara State, Mahmud Shinkafi. Also Saburi...
the Central African Republic. He signed a peace treaty with the city of Shinkafi but has shifted his activities elsewhere. He is a leader of about 1000...
A9 (TAH5) at Jibiya to RN9, the Kaita Rd north from Katsina Ring Rd at Shinkafi via Dan Kabba at Dankama to Magami, northwest from A2 at Kongodumm via...
lawyer, he was involved in the Choice 92 presidential campaign of Umaru Shinkafi. Kusamotu was born into the family of Adeoti Kusamotu and the Akirun of...
Abubakar Yari). G8 included Kabir Garba Marafa; a seating senator, Mahmud Shinkafi; a former governor of the state, Mansur Dan Ali; ex-Defence Minister, Ibrahim...
Na’iddah, died from a "protracted illness." On 29 June 2021, the member for Shinkafi, Muhammad Ahmad (APC), was killed in a bandit attack along the Sheme-Funtua...
National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. PDP candidate Bello Shinkafi won the election. APC candidate Husaini Zurmi won the popular votes but...
Amaechi S. A. Ajayi Saleh Mamman Sam Obi Samuel Akintola Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi Shehu Shagari Sullivan Chime Tunde Idiagbon Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Yakubu...
covers the local government areas of Birnin Magaji/Kiyaw, Kaura Namoda, Shinkafi, Talata Mafara, and Zurmi. Incumbent Sahabi Alhaji Yaú (APC), who was elected...
Party nominee Abdul'aziz Abubakar Yari won the election, defeating Mahmud Shinkafi of the People's Democratic Party. A total of 17 candidates contested in...
Olusegun Obasanjo Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Umaru Shinkafi Governor of Benue-Plateau State In office July 1975 – March 1976 President...
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