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unusual facts about Zamfara State



Jibril Yakubu

Lt. Colonel (retired) Jibril Bala Yakubu was the first Administrator of Zamfara State after it was created from part of Sokoto State in October 1996, holding office until the return to democracy in May 1999 during the military regimes of Generals Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi

As deputy governor of Zamfara State in 2002, he endorsed an Islamic judgement calling on Muslims to kill the fashion writer Isioma Daniel after she wrote that the Prophet Mohammed may have approved of the Miss World contest and perhaps would have wished to marry one of the beauty queens.


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