Fagge

Fagge is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria, within the greater Kano area. Its headquarters are in the suburb of Waje.

It has an area of 21 km² and a population of 198,828 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 700.

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Umar Sani

Umar Sani (born January 25, 1963 in Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria) is Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Vice President Namadi Sambo of Nigeria. He has been Sambo's aide since 2007 when the latter just won the gubernatorial elections in Kaduna.

Career

Umar Sani began his career as a teacher when the teaching profession was the exclusive preserve of the best from the academics. After graduating from the Kagoro Teachers College in the early 80s, in Kaduna state he took up appointment with the old Kaduna Local Education Department as a classroom teacher.

Later he resigned his appointment and enrolled at the famous Kaduna Polytechnic, in Kaduna where he achievedhis National Diploma in Marketing. After successfully completing the course, he was employed by the newly created National Teachers Institute as a store officer. Again his thirst for education drove him out of his well-paid job in pursuit of further studies after only two years of his appointment. He thereafter resigned to further his studies. In 1992, He obtained his Higher National Diploma in Marketing. As tradition demands, he was posted to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning Bauchi State and Later the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Bauchi Branch for his one-year mandatory service for graduates.