Jigawa Public Holiday in Nigeria in 2024

Jigawa Public Holiday in Nigeria in 2024
  How long until Jigawa Public Holiday?
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  Dates of Jigawa Public Holiday in Nigeria
2023 Jigawa Mon, Aug 28 Regional Holiday
2020 Jigawa Thu, Aug 27 Regional Holiday
2019 Jigawa Tue, Aug 27 Regional Holiday
2018 Jigawa Mon, Aug 27 Regional Holiday
  Summary

Jigawa State Government has declared a public holiday

About Jigawa

Jigawa State was created on Tuesday August 27th 1991, when the Federal Military Government under the General Ibrahim Babangida announced the creation of nine additional states in the country bringing the total number of states then to thirty. The announcement was given a legal backing through the; State Creation and Transitional Provisions Decree No. 37 of 1991.

Excised from Kano State it covers a total land area of about 22,410sq Km. It is bordered on the West by Kano State, on the East by Bauchi and Yobe States and on the North by Katsina and Yobe States and the Republic of Niger.

The state is mainly populated by the Hausa, Fulani and the Mangawa, Badawa and Ngizimawa which are dialects of the Kanuri language. They constitute significant percentages in Birniwa, Guri and Kiri kasamma local government areas. There are other settled tribes both from within and outside Nigeria inhibiting in almost all the local Government areas of the state with the highest concentration in the state capital.

Source: Jigawa State Government


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