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Abubakar Shekau
Abubakar Shekau, also known by the alias Darul Akeem wa Zamunda Tawheed, or Darul Tawheed ("the abode of monotheism") (دار التوحيد), thought to be born between 1965 and 1975 is a Kanuri man known as the leader of Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant group that has declared loyalty to the Islamist militant group Islamic State of Iraq Syria (ISIS).
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Adamawa State
Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, with its capital at Yola.
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Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan
Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan is a Nigerian senator who represents the All Progressive Congress in the Yobe North constituency of Yobe State.
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All Progressives Congress
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political party in Nigeria, formed on 6 February 2013 in anticipation of the 2015 elections.
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Bade language
Bade (also spelled Bede, Bedde, or Bode) is a West Chadic language spoken by the Bade people in Yobe State and Jigawa State, Nigeria.
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Bade, Nigeria
Bade (or Barde or Bedde) is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Baggara
The Baggāra are a grouping of Arab ethnic groups inhabiting the portion of Africa's Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and southern Kordofan, numbering over one million.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Bean
A bean is a seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used for human or animal food.
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Boko Haram
The Islamic State in West Africa (abbreviated as ISWA or ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad") and commonly known as Boko Haram until March 2015, is a jihadist militant organization based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon.
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Bole language
Bole (also known as Bolanchi, Ampika, Borpika, Bolewa, Bolawa) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria.
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Borno State
Borno, also known as Borno State, is a state in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Bukar Ibrahim
Alhaji Bukar Abba Ibrahim (born October 1950) was governor of Yobe State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.
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Bursari
Bursari is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Damaturu
Damaturu is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Diffa Region
Diffa is an administrative region in the southeast of Niger.
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Fika, Nigeria
Fika is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Fula people
The Fula people or Fulani or Fulany or Fulɓe (Fulɓe; Peul; Fulani or Hilani; Fula; Pël; Fulaw), numbering between 40 and 50 million people in total, are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.
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Fune
Fune is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Geidam
Geidam is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Gombe State
Gombe, usually referred to as Gombe State to distinguish it from the city of Gombe, is located in the northeastern part of Nigeria, is one of the country's 36 states; its capital is Gombe.
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Goodluck Jonathan
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford,, The Source (Lagos), 11 December 2006.
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Gujba
Gujba is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Gulani
Gulani is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Gum arabic
Gum arabic, also known as acacia gum, arabic gum, gum acacia, acacia, Senegal gum and Indian gum, and by other names, is a natural gum consisting of the hardened sap of various species of the acacia tree.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.
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Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa) are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.
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House of Representatives (Nigeria)
The House of Representatives is the lower house of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly.
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Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born 17 August 1941), is a retired Nigerian Army General who was President of Nigeria from 27 August 1985 to 26 August 1993.
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Ibrahim Geidam
Ibrahim Geidam was sworn in as Executive Governor of Yobe State, Nigeria on January 27, 2009.
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ISO 3166-2:NG
ISO 3166-2:NG is the entry for Nigeria in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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Jakusko
Jakusko is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Jigawa State
Jigawa is a state in central northern Nigeria.
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Kanuri people
The Kanuri people (Kanouri, Kanowri, also Yerwa, Bare Bari and several subgroup names) are an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon.
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Kaolinite
Kaolinite is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
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Karasuwa
Karasuwa is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Karekare language
Karekare (also known as Karaikarai, Karai Karai, Kerekere, Kerrikerri) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State and Yobe State with settlements in Kukar-Gadu, Dagare, Maje, Postiskum, Fika, Nangere, Dambam, Dambe and Japan Nigeria.
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Kilba people
The Kilba are an ethnic group in the Hong local government area of Adamawa State (formerly Gongola State) in Nigeria.
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List of capitals of states of Nigeria
The following is a list of Nigerian State capitals.
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List of Governors of Yobe State
This is a list of administrators and Governors of Yobe State, Nigeria.
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List of Nigerian states by area
The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their surface area.
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List of Nigerian states by date of statehood
The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's states and the dates of their creation.
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List of Nigerian states by GDP
The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total GDP in 2010.
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List of Nigerian states by population
The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total population based on preliminary 2006 Census figures.
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List of Nigerian states' nicknames
The following table presents a listing of Nigerian states' nicknames.
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List of sovereign states
This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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List of state governors of Nigeria
The following table presents a list of Nigeria's state governors.
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Local government areas of Nigeria
Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs).
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Machina, Nigeria
Machina (or Matsena) is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Margi
Margi (Μαργί) is a village located in the Nicosia District of Cyprus.
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Marketplace
A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.
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Muslim
A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.
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Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr
Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr (born February 22, 1986) is a Sudanese athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.
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Nangere
Nangere is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Ngizim people
The Ngizim people (Ngizmawa, Ngezzim) live in Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria.
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Nguru, Nigeria
Nguru (or N'Gourou) is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Niger
Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Potiskum
Potiskum is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria on the A3 highway at.
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President of Nigeria
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria.
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Quartz
Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
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Senate of Nigeria
The Senate is the upper house of the Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Nigeria.
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Sharia
Sharia, Sharia law, or Islamic law (شريعة) is the religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition.
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States of Nigeria
A Nigerian State is a federated political entity, which shares sovereignty with the Federal Government of Nigeria, There are 36 States in Nigeria, which are bound together by a federal agreement.
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Tarmuwa
Tarmuwa is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Vigna subterranea
Vigna subterranea (also known by its common names: Bambara nut, Bambara-bean, Congo goober, earth pea, ground-bean, or hog-peanut) is a member of the family Fabaceae.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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West Africa Time
West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa; with countries west of Benin instead using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; equivalent to UTC with no offset).
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Yunusari
Yunusari is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Yusufari
Yusufari is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria.
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Zinder Region
Zinder Region is an administrative Region in Niger, the capital of the Region is the Commune of Zinder.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yobe_State