Contact Info
Block A-Q4, 2nd & 3rd Floors, New Secretariat Complex, 3 Arms Zone, P. M. B. 7022 Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria
Tel: +234 8030 687 681, +234 808 540 0040, Email:sirbjigawa@yahoo.com
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Jigawa State Government
ABOUT JIGAWA
The state was created on Tuesday August 27, 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..
The Jigawa State Board of Internal Revenue was created by an Edict on 1 October, 1991, when Jigawa State was carved out of the old Kano State. It was headed an Administrator of Revenue. The first Chairman of the Board was Alhaji Hashim Amar (Waziri Hadeja). Tax revenue currently accounts for between7% and 10% of the state budget. There has been a 57% increase in tax collection over the years.
The Joint Tax Board has increased the competence of the Jigawa State Board of Internal Revenue by facilitating various training programmes in the areas of taxation and ICT. These have better equipped staff to face the challenges of modern tax system and administration.
The JTB also chose Jigawa State a pilot site for the JTB UTIN Project. The total number of taxpayers in database as at November, 2016,wais 39,490 while the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for 2015 was N5,081,424,105.40
DATE OF CREATION: 1991
CAPITAL: DUTSE
LAND AREA: 23,154 km2
GOVERNOR: HIS EXCELLENCY,
MALAM UMAR A. NAMADI FCA POPULATION: 4,988,888 (NATIONALCENSUN 2006) LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS: 27