Igabi

Igabi is a Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Nigeria. It is chaired by the Executive Chairman - Jabir Khamis, It is one of 774 local government areas in Nigeria. Rigasa ward is under Igabi LGA, one of the most populous wards in the country. History Research by the DRPC Nigeria (Development Research and Projects Center Nigeria) has shown that Igabi was founded by a man from Kukawa in Borno state; the man was a Qur'anic scholar who settled near Rigachikun to teach Qur'an and Islamic studies in the region due to an overflow of Hausa people to the northeastern Nigeria especially Borno state in search of Islamic religious knowledge. The current local government's capital is Turunku. The genesis of Igabi town that led to local government was a man named Igabi who came and settled in the area. The man was from Borna named Mallam Ahmadu, an Islamic scholar who arrived at the site where he founded the town with a large number of Almajirai (students), numbering more than a hundred. Later more students from neighboring villages around joined him. in 1907, Igabi was officially recognized as a district under Zazzau Emirate by the British colonial government of Northern Nigeria and the first district head was Turaki Babba of Zazzau. After the death of Turaki Babba in the early 1950s the leadership was transferred to Dan Madami Zubairu, then to Dan Madami Umaru and now Bello Sani. The first confirmed H5N1 (bird flu) outbreak in an African country was on February 8, 2006, on a commercial chicken farm in Jaji, a village in Igabi.