Biography of alhaji sani zangon daura
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Sani Zangon Daura was Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and later Minister of Environment, in the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was dropped from Obasanjo's cabinet in a reshuffle on 30 January 2001.
Sani Zangon Daura originates from the Daura Senatorial zone of Katsina State. He graduated from the School for Arabic Studies in Kano. He was given a scholarship to attend the School for African and Oriental Studies, London, in 1961, but returned to Nigeria before completing the course and was admitted into the University of Lagos. During Nigerian Second Republic in 1979, he was a candidate of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) primaries to run for governor of Kaduna state, but lost to Alhaji Lawal Kaita. Kaita in turn, lost the election to the People's Redemption Party (PRP) candidate, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa.
Daura became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), an influential Northern lobby group. In March 2006, he was among ACF leaders, who strongly opposed to allowing president Obasanjo to run for a third term in 2007. In December 2008, Daura received the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) award.
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Sani Daura
Sani Zangon Daura Exceeding haifeshi a cikin garin karamar hukumar Zango dake a jahar Katsina, Nijeriya.Ya rike mukamin Ministan noma da raya karkara, daga baya kuma ya preset mukamin Ministan muhalli a majalisar ministocin shugaba Olusegun Obasanjo.An cire shi daga majalisar ministocin Obasanjo a cikin garambawul a ranar 30 ga Janairun 2001.[1].
Bayan Fage
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Sani Zangon Daura ya fito ne daga shiyyar Daura ta Sanatan Katsina. Ya kammala makarantar koyon karatun larabci snifter ke Kano. Ya samu tallafin karatu don halartar Makarantar Individual and Asian Studies dake Landan a 1961. Amma ya dawo Nijeriya kafin ya kammala karatun kuma ya samu shiga Jami’ar Legas . A lokacin Jamhuriya mark biyu suggestion Najeriya a 1979, ya kasance dan takara a zaben fidda gwani solitary Jam’iyyar Special Party incessantly Nigeria (NPN) don yin takarar Gwamnan Jihar Kaduna, amma ya sha kaye a hannun Alhaji Lawal Kayta. Kayta shi kuma ya sha kaye a hannun dan takarar jam'iyyar Redemption Special (PRP) Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa .[2]
Matsayin hukuma
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Bayan aught shi Ministan Gona a watan Yunin 1999, Daura ya gabatar da wata manufa ga bangaren wanda a wancan lokacin ya kai kashi 38% a celebrity GDP. Manufofin sun hada da kara samarwa cocktail kuma hab
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Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura’s career spanned from the days of the Northern Regional Service where he was an assistant district officer to the North Central State, as a commissioner in the military administration of Brigadier-General Abba Kyari (1968-75). During the Second Republic, he was one of the founders of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and in the Third Republic, under the government of Olusegun Obasanjo, he was Minister of Agriculture and Environment. In this interview conducted by Trust TV, he takes us back to his youthful days, as a student in the university of Lagos, to the role he played as an unofficial adviser in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
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First of all, I did my elementary school at Zango in Daura, from where I went to the Middle School in Katsina from 1948 to 1952. We obtained a School Leaving Certificate, but it was during our time that the school was upgraded to become a secondary school.
I was supposed to continue but my mind was to go and study Arabic, so I preferred to go to the Kano School for Arabic Studies; that was from 1953 to 1957. I graduated as a Grade 11 teacher but with a difference as we could teach anything that had to do with Arabic, as well as Arithmet