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Gombe State | |
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 Location of Gombe State in Nigeria | |
| Coordinates: 10°15′N 11°10′E / 10.250°N 11.167°E | |
| Country |  Nigeria |
| Date created | 1 October 1996 |
| Capital | Gombe |
| Government | |
| • Body | Government of Gombe State |
| • Governor | Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya (APC) |
| • Deputy Governor | Manasseh Daniel Jatau (APC) |
| • Legislature | Gombe State House of Assembly |
| • Senators | C: Mohammed Danjuma Goje (APC) N: Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo (PDP) S: Anthony Yaro (PDP) |
| • Representatives | List |
| Area | |
• Total | 18,768 km2 (7,246 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 21st of 36 |
| Population (2006 census)1 | |
• Total | 2,365,040[1] |
• Estimate (2022[2]) | 3,960,100 |
| • Rank | 33rd of 36 |
| GDP (PPP) | |
| • Year | 2021 |
| • Total | $13.58 billion[3] |
| • Per capita | $3,553[3] |
| Time zone | UTC+01 (WAT) |
| ISO 3166 code | NG-GO |
| HDI (2022) | 0.466[4] low · 29th of 37 |
| Website | gombestate |
| ^1 Preliminary results | |
Gombe State (Fula: Lesdi Gommbe 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤺𞤮𞤥𞥆𞤦𞤫; Tangale: Kwambe which is the initial pronunciation of the state before colonial intervention) is a state in northeastern Nigeria, bordered to the north and northeast by the states of Borno for 93 km in the vicinity of Gongola River and Lake Dadin Kowa and Yobe in the vicinity of Gongola River for 140 km, to the south by Taraba State for 58 km, to the southeast by Adamawa State for 95 km, and to the west by Bauchi State for 277 km (172 miles). Gombe is the state capital of Gombe state and it was formed from a part of Bauchi State on 1 October 1996.[5] Of the 36 states in Nigeria, Gombe is the 21st largest in area and the 32nd most populous, with an estimated population of about 3.25 million as of 2016.[6] The state bears a slogan "Jewel in the Savannah".[7]
Geographically, the state is within the tropical West Sudanian savanna ecoregion.[8] Important geographic features include the Gongola River — which flows through Gombe's north and east into Lake Dadin Kowa — and part of the Muri Mountains, a small range in the state's far south. Among the state's nature endowments are a number of snake species, including carpet viper, puff adder, and Egyptian cobra populations along with hippopotamus, Senegal parrot, and grey-headed kingfisher populations.[9][10]
The state is inhabited by various ethnic groups, primarily the Fulani people living in the north and center of the state, and the Tangale, living in the Southern and Central part of the state, while the state's diverse eastern and southern regions are populated by the Cham, Dadiya, Jara, Kamo, Pero, Tangale, Tera, Lunguda and Waja peoples. Religiously, between 55% and 60% of the state's populations are Muslim while the Christian minority comprises between 40% and 45%.[11]
In the pre-colonial period, the area that is now Gombe State was split up between various states until the early 1800s when the Fulani jihad seized much of the area to the Northern Gombe and formed the Gombe Emirate under the Sokoto Caliphate while the Tangale seized the Southern Area to establish their Maidom which has traceable history to ElKanemi - Maiduguri migration. In the 1910s, British expeditions occupied the Emirate and the surrounding areas, incorporating them into the Northern Nigeria Protectorate which later merged into British Nigeria before becoming independent as Nigeria in 1960.[12] Originally, modern-day Gombe State was a part of the post-independence Northern Region until 1967 when the region was split and the area became part of the North-Eastern State. After the North-Eastern State was split, Bauchi State was formed in 1976 alongside ten other states. Twenty years afterwards, a group of LGAs in Bauchi's west were broken off to form the new Gombe State.
Economically, Gombe State is largely based around agriculture, mainly of sorghum, maize, groundnuts, millet, beans, rice and tomatoes mostly in the Central and Southern axis. Other key industries are services, especially in the city of Gombe, and the herding of camels, cattle, goats, and sheep which are predominantly in the Northern axis of the state. Gombe has the fourth lowest Human Development Index and one of the lowest GDPs in the country.[13]
Gombe is one of the "friendliest" cities in Nigeria for doing business, due to its excellent modern infrastructure, secure and stable serenity, transparency and easier accessibility of information, regulatory environment, skills and labour and economic opportunities. These earned her the World Bank's yearly appraisal, "The Ease of Doing Business", in 2021 and 2023.[14]
- ^ "2006 PHC Priority Tables – NATIONAL POPULATION COMMISSION". population.gov.ng. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ "Gombe State: Subdivision". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ a b Okeowo, Gabriel; Fatoba, Iyanuoluwa, eds. (13 October 2022). "State of States 2022 Edition" (PDF). Budgit.org. BudgIT. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "How we convinced Abacha to create Gombe State in 1996 –Amb. Garba". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "Population 2006-2016". National Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ Etemiku, MajiriOghene Bob (20 November 2022). "Barde, Inuwa: who better to run Gombawa from 2023?". iNigerian.com. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ Zida, D.; Tigabu, M.; Sawadogo, L.; Oden, P.C. (1 October 2005). "Germination requirements of seeds of four woody species from the Sudanian savanna in Burkina Faso, West Africa". Seed Science and Technology. 33 (3): 581–593. doi:10.15258/sst.2005.33.3.06. ISSN 0251-0952.
- ^ Azubuike, Chima (19 October 2021). "Gombe govt to establish hippopotamus colony". The Punch. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ^ Adang, K. L; Nsor, C. A.; M, Tela (30 April 2015). "Checklist of bird species at the Dadin Kowa Dam, Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria". Global Advanced Research Journal of Agricultural Science. 4. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ Higazi, Adam; Lar, Jimam (February 2015). "Articulations of belonging: The politics of ethnic and religious pluralism in Bauchi and Gombe States, North-East Nigeria". Cambridge University Press. 85 (1): 103–130. doi:10.1017/S0001972014000795. S2CID 144713143. ProQuest 1647755004. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
In Gombe State, the population is estimated to be about 65 per cent to 70 per cent Muslim and 30 per cent to 35 per cent Christian
- ^ Ikimẹ, Obaro (June 1974). "The British in Bauchi, 1901-1908: an episode in the British occupation and control of Northern Nigeria". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 7 (2): 271–290. JSTOR 41857013. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ "Human Development Indices". Global Data Lab. Archived from the original on 14 March 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ "As Gombe leads Nigeria again in ease of doing business". dailytrust.com. Daily Trust. April 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.