The Kagara Emirate is a

traditional state Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. The main reason for the given state of affairs is that " things have always been that way".Reinhard Bendi ...

which located in Kagara near to

Pandogari Pandogari is a town (ward) in Kagara, the capital of Rafi local government in Niger State, Nigeria. There is a large Hill which called Kongoma hill, in Fulfulde (''Kwangwamaje''), Kongoma hill located at the eastern Pandogari. The distance from ...

town, Kagara is the capital of Rafi local government

Niger State Niger is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria and the largest state in the country. Niger state has three political zones, zone A,B and C. The state's capital is at Minna. Other major cities are Bida, Kontagora and Suleja. It was ...

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. The Emirate is located in Niger East Senatorial District.

List of rulers

Kagara Emirate in the history has three rulers including the present ruler, the second emir of Kagara Alhaji Salihu Tanko, Who has died after suffering from illness. After his death the Alhaji Ahmed Garba Gunna became the third emir of Kagara. and the first Emir Attahiru Ahmadu. Marigayi_Alhaji_Salihu_Tanko_Sarkin_Kagara_na_ll

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History of Emirate

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History of Dam in Kagara Emirate

The town has a talc processing plant. Construction of a dam was initiated in 1979 for a sum of N5 billions.{{Citation needed, date=October 2021 The

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carried out the Environmental Impact assessment for the Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority (UNRBDA). About N3 billions had been paid by February 2002, when the Minister of Water Resources,

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, gave the contractor a deadline to complete the dam by December that year. In February 2004 the Minister of State for Water Resources, Mr. Bashr Ishola Awotorebo visited the dam site, and as a result called the contractor to account for delays in the project. In August 2004, while presenting 500 hand pumps from the Federal Government to the Niger State Governor,

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, Mukhtar Shagari said the dam project could be doomed due to non-approval of the budgetary allocation. In August 2007, Bala Kuta of the

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, a National House of Assembly representative, pledged to help with the dam project. One student is killed and 27 students, three teachers, twelve family members) were kidnapped by bandits on 17 February

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. Remains of the

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

Nok culture The Nok culture (or Nok civilization) is a population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of Nok in Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their terracotta sculptures were first discovered in 1928. The Nok culture appeared in Nig ...

have been found at Kagara, which lies at the far northwest end of the zone of Nok culture.{{cite book , title=Nigerian images , page=24 , authors=William Fagg, Herbert List , publisher=National Commission for Museums & Monuments , year=1990 , isbn=0-85331-566-3

References

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