Notable people Katsina State

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Notable people Katsina State

• Abba Musa Rimi, Governor of Kaduna State 1980–1983
• Abdulmuminu Kabir Usman, Emir of Katsina
• Aminu Bello Masari former speaker house of representatives 2003 to 2007 and former Governor of the State
• Faruk Umar Faruk CON, Current and 60th Emir of Daura
• Habu Daura, Commissioner of Police and he was the acting Administrator of Bayelsa State, from February to June 1997
• Hadiza Bala Usman, former Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority
• Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad, former head of the Technical Committee on Privatization and Commercialization
• Hassan Katsina, Military governor of the northern region 1966–1967.
• Ibrahim Coomassie, Inspector General of Police 1993–1999
• Ibrahim M. Ida, Senator for Katsina Central constituency of Katsina State, Nigeria, taking office on 29 May 2007 and member of All Progressive Congress APC
• Ibrahim Shema, Governor of Katsina State 2007–2015
• Isa Kaita, first northern Nigeria minister of education and speaker of the house of parliament

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• Ja'afar Mahmud Adam, Salafist Islamic scholar aligned with the Izala Society
• Lawal Kaita, Governor of Kaduna State 1983
• Lawal Musa Daura, Director General of the Nigerian State Security Service
• Magaji Muhammed, former Minister of Internal affairs, former Minister of industries and former Nigerian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Mahmud Kanti Bello, Former Chief Whip of the Senate
• Mamman Shata, a Hausa griot/musician.
• Mohammed Bello, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Mohammed Tukur Liman former majority leader of the Nigerian Senate.
• Muhammadu Buhari, Military Head of State 1983–1985, Chairman PTF and President of Nigeria 2015-2023
• Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu Inspector General of Police from 1975 to 1979
• Muhammadu Dikko, Emir of Katsina 1906–1944.
• Saddik Abdullahi Mahuta, former Chief Judge of Katsina State from 1991 to 2013 and the 11th Galadiman Katsina, District Head of Malumfashi.
• Sani Ahmed Daura, Lagos State commissioner of police 1990, and first Governor of Yobe State 1991–1992
• Sani Zangon Daura, Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development 1999–2000, Federal Minister of Environment 2000 – 2001

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• Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, politician, major general and Military Vice President 1976–1979
• Sunusi Mamman, a two time Vice Chancellor of Umaru Musa Yaradua University, Katsina.
• Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, Pan-Africanist, Oxford Rhodes Scholar and Former Deputy Director of United Nations Millennium Campaign for Africa 1961–2009
• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States for attempting to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, 2009.
• Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Governor of the State 1999–2007, and President of Nigeria 2007–2010
• Umaru Mutallab, business and banking veteran and also a former Minister of economic development.
• Ummarun Dallaje was the 39th Islamic Leader of Katsina, the first Fulani emir, as well as the patriarch of the Dallazawa dynasty.
• Yakubu Musa Katsina, Islamic scholar.
• Yusufu Bala Usman, historian and Marxist.

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