|
Northern People's Congress
The Northern People's Congress (NPC) is a political party in Nigeria. Formed in June 1943, the party held considerable influence in the Northern Region from the 1950s until the military coup of 1966. It was formerly a cultural organization known as Jamiyaar Mutanen Arewa. After the Nigerian Civil War of 1967, the NPC subsequently became a minor party.Sklar R.L “Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation”, pp.381-383. Africa World Press, 2004 Notable members * Sir Ahmadu Bello, party leader, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Premier of the Northern Region. * Sir Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, was the deputy leader of the party and Prime Minister of Nigeria. * Makaman Bida, leader of the National Party of Nigeria in 1978. * S. A. Ajayi, Kwara state chairman of NPC, a former parliamentary Secretary to Sardauna of Sokoto. * Muhammadu Ribadu * Maitama Sule * Ibrahim Imam * Sir Shettima Kashim * Ado Bayero * Musa Yar'Adua * Waziri Ibrahim * Aminu Dantata * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmadu Bello
Sir Ahmadu Bello (; born Ahmadu Rabah; 12 June 1910 – 15 January 1966), famously known as Sardauna of Sokoto, was a conservative Nigerian statesman who was one of the leading northern politicians in 1960 and served as its first and only premier from 1954 until his assassination in 1966, in which capacity he dominated national affairs for over a decade. He was also the leader of the Northern People's Congress, the ruling party at the time, which was largely made up of the Hausa–Fulani elite. He had previously been elected into the regional legislature and later became a government minister. A member of the Sokoto Caliphate dynasty, he made attempts at becoming Sultan of Sokoto before later joining politics. Early years Bello was born in Rabah c. 1910 to the family of Mallam Ibrahim Atiku Bello. His father held the title of Sarkin Rabah. He was a descendant of Uthman dan Fodio (founder of the Sokoto Caliphate), a great-grandson of Sultan Alh.Muhammad Bello, and a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Imam
Ibrahim Imam (1916 – April 1980) was a Nigerian politician from Borno, who was the secretary of the Northern People's Congress and later became a patron of the Borno Youth Movement. He was elected into the Northern House of Assembly in 1961, representing a Tiv district. Prior to his election in 1961, he had represented his district of Yerwa in 1951 after supporting a strike of Native Administration workers. Early life and education In 1916, Imam was born into an aristocratic Kanuri family from the Yerwa district of Borno. He attended Katsina College, and after completing his studies joined the Borno Native Administration as an assistant. Three of Imam's half-brothers were councillors of the Shehu of Borno, one as the District Head of Yerwa, one as a Legal Adviser to the Shehu's court, and one as another District Head. Despite his aristocratic background, he distanced himself from it, generally avoiding the aristocracy of Borno. In 1950, he bolstered a strike organised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Establishments In Nigeria
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 10 – WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces of the 2nd Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division (United States), 25th Infantry Division begin their assaults on the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse#Galloping Horse, Galloping Horse and Sea Horse on Guadalcanal. Meanwhile, the Japanese Seventeenth Army (Japan), 17th Army makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties In Nigeria
This is a list of political parties in Nigeria. The Federal Republic of Nigeria has a multi-party system. The largest by National Assembly seats are the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). There are also a number of smaller parties, the largest of which are the Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Young Progressives Party (YPP) including the African Democratic Congress (ADC), People's Redemption Party (PRP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), and eleven other parties registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission. Current parties Parties represented in the National Assembly Other parties represented in state assemblies Extraparliamentary parties Unregistered parties These active (or recently active) parties are not currently registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission. After the 2019 elections, INEC deregistered 74 political parties for failing to "satisfy the requirements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties Established In 1943
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shettima Ali Monguno
Shettima Ali Monguno, CFR (1926 – 8 July 2016) was a Nigerian educationalist and politician, born in 1926 in Monguno-Borno state. He attended Monguno Primary School, Teacher's College Bauchi and Katsina, College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, Moray House College of Education and the University of Edinburgh. He was M.P. in 1959, Education secretary and Councilor for Education, Works and Social Welfare, Borno Local Government, between 1959 and 1965. He served as the Minister for Air Force and Internal Affairs between 1965 and 1966, served as the Federal Commissioner for Trade and Industries between 1967 and 1971; and as Minister Mines and Power, Petroleum and Energy between 1972 and 1975. Shettima Ali Monguno was also the president of OPEC between 1972 and 1973. He was the presidential candidate during the Option A4 elections in the early 1990s in Nigeria. He was leader of the Nigerian delegation to UNCAD II, New Delhi, in 1968 and member of the Nigerian delegation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shehu Shagari
Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (; 25 February 1925 – 28 December 2018) was a Nigerian politician who was the first democratically elected president of Nigeria, after the transfer of power by Military Head of State of Nigeria, military head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1979, which gave rise to the Second Nigerian Republic. An experienced politician, he briefly worked as a School Teacher, teacher before entering politics in 1951; and was elected into the House of Representatives of Nigeria, House of Representatives in 1954 Nigerian general election, 1954. At various times between 1958 through Independence Day (Nigeria), independence of Nigeria in 1960 and 1975, he held a cabinet post as a federal commissioner. During these periods, Shagari made significant contributions to various sectors of the Nigerian economy. As Minister of Works, he played a key role in infrastructure development. As Minister of Economic Development, he was instrumental in formulating Nigeria’s post- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aminu Dantata
Aminu Alhassan Dantata (; 19 May 1931 – 28 June 2025) was a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who was one of the promoters of Kano State Foundation, an endowment fund that supported educational initiatives and provided grants to small-scale entrepreneurs in Kano. He was the head of a group of companies that managed his real estate and other business ventures. Aminu Alhassan Dantata was the founder of Express Petroleum & Gas Company Ltd and one of the organizers of Jaiz Bank in Nigeria. In 1978, he was a member of the National Movement, an organization that later transformed to the National Party of Nigeria. Background Dantata was born into the family of Alhassan Dantata, who was from an Agalawa trading family, Aminu Dantata's grandfather was called Abdullahi while his great-grandfather was called Baba Talatin, a prosperous merchant who brought the family from Katsina to Madobi following the death of his father Ali. Aminu Dantata's grandfather Abdullahi continued to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waziri Ibrahim
Alhadji Waziri Kolo Ibrahim (26 February 1926 – 1992) was a Kanuri business man from Borno State, Nigeria, who became a prominent politician and party leader during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was one of the original founders and financiers of the Nigerian People's Party, but in 1978 left the party to form the Great Nigeria People's Party (GNPP). As a candidate of the GNPP, he won almost 10% of the national vote in the Nigerian presidential elections of 1979. Early life Ibrahim was born on 26 February 1926 in Yerwa, Maiduguri. His father, Baba Alhaji Ibrahim Ibn Mohammed was an Islamic scholar; he named the new born boy after a friend who was then Waziri of Borno. Waziri's early childhood was in Damaturu where his father was the imam of a local mosque. He attended Damaturu Elementary School (1936–1939), followed by studies at Maiduguri Middle School (1940–1943) and then Kaduna College, 1944–1947. At Kaduna College, he was a classmate of Professor Umaru Shehu; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musa Yar'Adua
Musa Yar'Adua (1912–1993) was a Nigerian administrator and politician who served as the Minister of Lagos Affairs during Nigeria's First Republic. Yar'Adua was minister when Lagos Island and the capital territory was designated as the city of Lagos in 1963. He is the father of Umaru Musa Yar'adua, Nigeria's 13th president, and Shehu Musa Yar'adua, Chief of Staff of Obasanjo's military government. During his lifetime, Yar'Adua first held the chieftaincy title of ''Tafidan Katsina''. He was later elevated to that of the ''Matawalle'' of the Katsina Emirate, a title which his father Mallam Umaru once held. Life Yar'Adua was born in 1912 to Malama Binta, a Fulani from the Sullubawa clan who was a princess of the royal family of the Katsina Emirate and a sister of Emir Muhammadu Dikko. His father was Umaru Mutawallin Katsina, a chief whose title made him the royal treasurer of the kingdom. He was educated at Katsina College between 1928 and 1930 and began a career in teaching at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ado Bayero
Ado Bayero CFR, LLD, JP (25 July 1930 – 6 June 2014) was the Emir of Kano from 1963 to 2014. Early life Lineage Ado Bayero was born on 25 July 1930 into the royal family of the Fulani Sullubawa clan that has ruled over the Emirate of Kano since 1819. His father was Abdullahi Bayero and his mother was Hajiya Hasiya. He was the eleventh child of his father and the second of his mother. At the age of seven, he was sent to live with Maikano Zagi. His father reigned for 27 years. Muhammadu Sanusi I who was Ado Bayero's half brother ruled after their father from 1953 to 1963. Following his dethronement in 1963, Muhammadu Inuwa ascended the throne for three months. Early life and education Bayero started his education in Kano studying Islam, after which he attended Kano Middle School (now Rumfa College, Kano). He spent around three years at the Kano School for Arabic Studies but did not complete the course. He then worked as a bank clerk for the Bank of British West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashim Ibrahim
Sir Shettima Kashim Ibrahim, (10 June 1910 – 25 July 1990) was a Nigerian politician who was head of the Native Administration in Borno State and was a minister for Social Services in the 1950s. He held the traditional title of the Vizier, Waziri of the Borno Emirate, Emirate of Borno after two previous Waziris had been forced to resign as a result of scandals in the Borno local administration. He was a close associate of Sir Ahmadu Bello. Life Ibrahim was born in Gargar Ward, Maiduguri, Yerwa to the family of Ibrahim Lakanmi. He started his education learning Arabic and Quran before attending Borno Provincial School in 1922. In 1925, he was admitted into the Katsina Training College and finished his studies with a teacher's certificate in 1929. He started working as a teacher in 1929 at the Borno Middle School and by 1933, he had become a Provincial Visiting Teacher. He was later promoted to a Senior Visiting Teacher and education officer for the province of Borno. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
