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Kano is the state capital of Kano State in North West, Nigeria. [1]

123 relations: Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Abubakar Rimi, Ado Bayero, Aero Contractors (Nigeria), Alhassan Dantata, Aliko Dangote, All Nigeria Peoples Party, All Progressives Congress, Aminu Kano, Arik Air, Atlantic slave trade, Audu Bako, Auwa, Bayajidda (mythology), Bayero University Kano, Blasphemy, Boko Haram, Boston University, Cambridge University Press, Challawa Gorge Dam, Craft, Dala, Kano, Dalla Hill, Defensive wall, Drought, Durbar festival, Edinburgh University Press, EgyptAir, Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Fitr, Elizabeth Isichei, Emir, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Europe, Fagge, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Fula people, Geopolitical zones of Nigeria, Gidan Rumfa, Governor, Great Mosque of Kano, Gwale, Hadejia River, Hajj, Hausa language, Hausa people, Heinrich Barth, House of Representatives (Nigeria), Igbo people, ..., Information technology, IRS Airlines, January 2012 Northern Nigeria attacks, Jihad, Jos Plateau, Kabo Air, Kaduna, Kanem–Bornu Empire, Kano Chronicle, Kano Emirate Council, Kano Municipal, Kano State, Köppen climate classification, Kumbari dan Sharefa, Kumbotso, Kurmi Market, Lagos, Lake Chad, List of Nigerian cities by population, List of rulers of Kano, Little Syria, Manhattan, Local government areas of Nigeria, Lokoja, Maitatsine, Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Metres above sea level, Middle East Airlines, Muhammad Rumfa, Nasarawa, Kano State, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Niger–Congo languages, Northern Region, Nigeria, Northwestern University Press, PanaPress, Peanut, People's Democratic Party (Nigeria), Port Harcourt, Rail transport in Nigeria, Ramadan, Sabon Gari, Sahel, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Sao civilisation, Saudia, Sharia, Shia Islam, Shia Islam in Nigeria, Sokoto, Sokoto Caliphate, Songhai Empire, Standard time, State Security Service (Nigeria), Sudanian Savanna, Sudano-Sahelian architecture, Sunni Islam, Tarauni, The Economist, This Day, Train station, Trans-Atlantic trade, Trans-Saharan trade, Tropical savanna climate, Tukur, Turkish Airlines, Ungogo, United States dollar, University of Arizona, University of California Press, Usman dan Fodio, Voice of America, West Africa Time, World Meteorological Organization, Zungeru. Expand index (73 more) »

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje (born December 25, 1949) is the Governor of Kano State elected on 13 April 2015 and sworn in on 29 May 2015.

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Abubakar Rimi

Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi (1940 – 4 April 2010) was a Nigerian politician, who was the governor of Kano State during the Nigerian Second Republic.

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Ado Bayero

Alhaji Dr.

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Aero Contractors (Nigeria)

Aero Contractors Company of Nigeria Limited, known as Aero Contractors or simply Aero, is a state-controlled Nigerian aviation company based at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria.

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Alhassan Dantata

Alhassan Dantata (1877 – 17 August 1955) was a Northern Nigerian trader in kola nuts and ground nuts, and he was a distributor of European goods.

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Aliko Dangote

Aliko Dangote GCON (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian business magnate, investor, and owner of the Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities in Nigeria and other African countries.

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All Nigeria Peoples Party

The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) was a political party in Nigeria.

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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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Aminu Kano

Aminu Kano (1920—April 17, 1983) was a Muslim politician from Nigeria.

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Arik Air

Arik Air is a Nigerian airline operating mainly from two hubs at Murtala Muhammed International Airport near Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.

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Audu Bako

Police Commissioner (retired) Audu Bako (born 1924) was the first Administrator of Kano State, Nigeria during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon after the state was formed from part of Northern Region.

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Auwa

Auwa is a village in the Marwar Junction tehsil of Pali district in Rajasthan, India.

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Bayajidda (mythology)

"Bayajidda (Hausa: Bàyā̀jiddà) is the eponymous ancestor of the Hausa people of Nigeria and Niger.

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Bayero University Kano

Bayero University Kano (BUK) is a university situated in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria.

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Blasphemy

Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable.

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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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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Challawa Gorge Dam

The Challawa Gorge Dam is in Karaye Local Government Area of Kano State in the Northwest of Nigeria, about 90 km southwest of Kano city.

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Craft

A craft or trade is a pastime or a profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.

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Dala, Kano

Dala is a densely populated Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria within Kano city created in May, 1989 from the old Kano Municipal Local Government.

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Dalla Hill

Dalla Hill (also spelled Dala) is a hill in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Drought

A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.

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Durbar festival

A Durbar festival is an annual festival celebrated in several cities of Nigeria.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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EgyptAir

EgyptAir (Arabic: مصر للطيران) is the flag carrier airline of Egypt.

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Eid al-Adha

Eid al-Adha (lit), also called the "Festival of Sacrifice", is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year (the other being Eid al-Fitr), and considered the holier of the two.

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Eid al-Fitr

Eid al-Fitr (عيد الفطر) is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting (sawm).

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Elizabeth Isichei

Elizabeth Allo Isichei (born 22 March 1939 in Tauranga, New Zealand) is a Nigerian author, historian and academic.

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Emir

An emir (أمير), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is an aristocratic or noble and military title of high office used in a variety of places in the Arab countries, West African, and Afghanistan.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is a Scottish-founded, now American company best known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopedia.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fagge

Fagge is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria, within the greater Kano area.

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Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University (also referred to as The Pardee School and Pardee School of Global Studies) is Boston University's newest School and was established in 2014 by bringing together a number of long-established programs in international and regional studies at Boston University.

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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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Geopolitical zones of Nigeria

The six geopolitical zones of Nigeria is a major division in modern Nigeria, created during the regime of president General Sani Abacha.

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Gidan Rumfa

The Gidan Rumfa, sometimes called the Gidan Sarki ("Emir's house"), is the palace of the Emir of Kano.

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Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.

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Great Mosque of Kano

The Great Mosque of Kano is a mosque in Kano, the capital city of Kano State and the second most populous city in Nigeria.

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Gwale

Gwale is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria within Greater Kano city.

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Hadejia River

The Hadejia River (Hausa: kogin Haɗeja) is a river in northern Nigeria and is a tributary of the Yobe River (Komadugu Yobe).

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Hajj

The Hajj (حَجّ "pilgrimage") is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims, and a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their family during their absence.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Yaren Hausa or Harshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afroasiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by some 27 million people, and as a second language by another 20 million.

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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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Heinrich Barth

Heinrich Barth (16 February 1821 – 25 November 1865) was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.

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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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Igbo people

The Igbo people (also Ibo," formerly also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group native to the present-day south-central and southeastern Nigeria.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

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IRS Airlines

IRS Airlines Limited is an airline based in Abuja.

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January 2012 Northern Nigeria attacks

A series of assaults on Christian churches and businesses occurred in northeastern Nigeria on 5 and 6 January 2012, followed by attacks on police stations and government offices in the north on 20 January.

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Jihad

Jihad (جهاد) is an Arabic word which literally means striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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Jos Plateau

The Jos Plateau is a plateau located near the centre of Nigeria.

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Kabo Air

Kabo Air is a Nigerian charter airline headquartered in Kano, Kano State and based at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport.

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Kaduna

Kaduna is the state capital of Kaduna State in north-western Nigeria, on the Kaduna River, is a trade centre and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction.

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Kanem–Bornu Empire

The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire that existed in modern Chad and Nigeria.

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Kano Chronicle

The Kano Chronicle is a written account of the history of the Hausa people who inhabit northern Nigeria.

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Kano Emirate Council

The Kano Emirate is a traditional state in Northern Nigeria with headquarters in the city of Kano, capital of the modern Kano State.

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Kano Municipal

Kano Municipal is a Local Government Area within the Kano Urban Area in Kano State, also known as capital of kano state, Nigeria.

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Kano State

Kano State is a state located in Northern Nigeria.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kumbari dan Sharefa

Kumbari dan Sharefa (reigned 1731–1743) was a Hausa King (Sarkin) of Kano.

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Kumbotso

Kumbotso is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria.

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Kurmi Market

The Kurmi Market is a large market in the city of Kano, Kano State, Nigeria.

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Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

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Lake Chad

Lake Chad (French: Lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries.

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List of Nigerian cities by population

The following are lists of the most populous fully defined incorporated settlements in Nigeria by population.

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List of rulers of Kano

The following is a list of rulers of Kano, a city and emirate in northern Nigeria.

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Little Syria, Manhattan

Little Syria was a largely Arab-American but diverse neighborhood that existed in the New York City borough of Manhattan from the late 1880s until the 1940s,, pp.76-77; Two other sections of New York were singled out as particularly Syrian in 1939, "the Syrian shops and coffee houses with their Arabic signs, on Atlantic Avenue" in South Brooklyn (p.463) and "a small Arabian and Syrian quarter" on Thatford Avenue near Belmont in Brownsville, Brooklyn (p.498).

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Local government areas of Nigeria

Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs).

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Lokoja

Lokoja is a city in Nigeria.

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Maitatsine

Mohammed Marwa (died 1980), best known by his nickname Maitatsine (and less commonly, as AllahTatsine), was a controversial preacher in Nigeria.

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Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport

Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport is an airport serving Kano, the capital city of Kano State of Nigeria.

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Metres above sea level

Metres above mean sea level (MAMSL) or simply metres above sea level (MASL or m a.s.l.) is a standard metric measurement in metres of the elevation or altitude of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level.

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Middle East Airlines

Middle East Airlines – Air Liban S.A.L. (طيران الشرق الأوسط ـ الخطوط الجوية اللبنانية Ṭayyarān al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ - al-Khuṭūṭ al-jawiyyah al-lubnāniyyah), more commonly known as Middle East Airlines (MEA) (طيران الشرق الأوسط Ṭayyarān al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ), is the national flag-carrier airline of Lebanon, with its head office in Beirut, near Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport.

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Muhammad Rumfa

Muhammad Rumfa was the Sultan of the Sultanate of Kano, located in modern-day Kano State, Northern Nigeria, it was believed that Muhammad Rumfa migrated from Daura, long after Bagauda.

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Nasarawa, Kano State

Nassarawa is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.

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Northern Region, Nigeria

Northern Nigeria was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures.

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Northwestern University Press

Northwestern University Press is affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

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PanaPress

PanaPress or Pana or PanAfrican News Agency is an African news agency.

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Peanut

The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria.

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Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt (Ikwerre: Ígúọ́cha; Pidgin: Po-ta-kot) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Rail transport in Nigeria

Railways in Nigeria are operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

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Ramadan

Ramadan (رمضان,;In Arabic phonology, it can be, depending on the region. also known as Ramazan, romanized as Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (Sawm) to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief.

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Sabon Gari

A Sabon Gari (strangers' quarters or literally new town in the Hausa language, plural Sabon Garuruwa) is a section of cities and town in Northern Nigeria south central Niger and northern Cameroon whose residents are not indigenous to Hausa lands.

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Sahel

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.

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Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Muhammadu Sanusi II (CON, born Sanusi Lamido Sanusi 31 July 1961) is the 14th Emir of Kano, who was crowned on 8 June 2014 after the death of his granduncle Ado Bayero (who died on 6 June 2014).

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Sao civilisation

The Sao civilisation flourished in Middle Africa from ca.

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Saudia

Saudia (السعودية), also known as Saudi Arabian Airlines (الخطوط الجوية العربية السعودية), is the national carrier airline of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah.

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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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Shia Islam

Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.

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Shia Islam in Nigeria

Though the majority of the Nigerian Muslim population is Sunni, there is a significant Shia minority, particularly in the northern states of Kano and Sokoto.

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Sokoto

Sokoto is a city located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River.

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Sokoto Caliphate

The Sokoto Caliphate was an independent Islamic Sunni Caliphate, in West Africa.

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Songhai Empire

The Songhai Empire (also transliterated as Songhay) was a state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century.

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Standard time

Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical area or region to a single time standard, rather than using solar time or a locally chosen meridian (longitude) to establish a local mean time standard.

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State Security Service (Nigeria)

The State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services (DSS), is the primary domestic intelligence agency of Nigeria.

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Sudanian Savanna

The Sudanian Savanna is a broad belt of tropical savanna that runs east and west across the African continent, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the western lowlands in the east.

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Sudano-Sahelian architecture

Sudano-Sahelian architecture refers to a range of similar indigenous architectural styles common to the African peoples of the Sahel and Sudanian grassland (geographical) regions of West Africa, south of the Sahara, but north of the fertile forest regions of the coast.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.

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Tarauni

Tarauni is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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This Day

This Day is a Nigerian national newspaper.

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Train station

A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.

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Trans-Atlantic trade

Trans-Atlantic trade is different from Trans-Atlantic slave trade it simply means the integration of African, Asian and Latin American economies to European economy through the medium of transnational corporations in the 19th and 20th century.

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Trans-Saharan trade

Trans-Saharan trade requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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Tukur

Tukur (توكور, also Romanized as Tūkūr and Tūgūr; also known as Beyk Tūkūr-e Pā’īn and Bīk-e Tūkūr) is a village in Takmaran Rural District, Sarhad District, Shirvan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran.

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Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines (Turkish: Türk Hava Yolları) is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey.

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Ungogo

Ungogo is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Usman dan Fodio

Shaihu Usman dan Fodio, born Usuman ɓii Foduye, (also referred to as عثمان بن فودي, Shaikh Usman Ibn Fodio, Shehu Uthman Dan Fuduye, Shehu Usman dan Fodio or Shaikh Uthman Ibn Fodio) (15 December 1754, Senegal – 20 April 1817, Sokoto) was a religious teacher, writer and Islamic promoter, and the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.

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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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World Meteorological Organization

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 191 Member States and Territories.

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Zungeru

Zungeru is a town in Niger State, Nigeria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano

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