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Kashim Ibrahim Shettima

Date of Birth: 2 September 1966
Place of Birth: Maiduguri, Borno State


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Generals on the run

A former college professor who began his career as a commercial lorry driver Zulum was the hand-picked successor to Kashim Shettima...


Drama in the delay

Four days earlier fighters from several armed vehicles attacked the convoy of Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima...


Governors get set

Outgoing governor Kashim Shettima has anointed state commissioner for reconstruction rehabilitation and resettlement Babagana Umara Zulum as his successor (AC Vol 58 No 16 Letting a crisis go to waste)...


Letting a crisis go to waste

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto; the President of the Senate Abubakar Bukola Saraki; and the Governor of Borno State Kashim Shettima are among the more ambitious hopefuls making overtures to Buhari but wary as rivals put their campaigns into gear and gather momentum...


A date with destiny

Although supporters of Kashim Shettima Borno State Governor since 2011 say his apparent lack of ambition combined with the role he has helped play in stabilising the north-east may leave him well placed if higher-profile players cancel one another out...

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Poison politics

Borno Governor Kashim Shettima was clearly warned in a letter from the security services that it was unsafe for the girls to sit their examinations in Chibok Okonjo-Iweala insists (AC Vol 55 No 5 A sage from Zamfara)...


A sage from Zamfara

Boko Haram killed more than 100 people in attacks last month in Borno where Governor Kashim Shettima said the militia was better armed than the army...


Boko Haram declares war

The new Governor of Borno State Kashim Shettima has tried to talk to Boko Haram which states that its preconditions for negotiation are the release of all its members from police custody the implementation of Sharia in all states where Muslims are in the majority the prosecution of all police officers involved in the killing of Mohammed Yusuf and the release of a report on human rights abuses in Borno State in 2009 (written by a committee headed by the former National Security Advisor Major Gen...


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