Kashim Ibrahim

Infobox Politician (general)
name= Kashim Ibrahim


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title= Minister for Social Services
term_start= 1952
term_end= 1953
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title2= Minister for Education
term_start2= 1953
term_end2= 1955
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title3= Regional Minister for Survey
term_start3= 1955
term_end3=1956
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title4= Waziri of Borno
term_start4=1956
term_end4= 1990
predecessor4= Waziri Wali
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birth_date= 1910
birth_place= Borno State
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party= Northern People's Congress
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profession= Teacher
religion= Muslim
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Shettima Kashim Ibrahim (1910-1990) was a Kanuri politician who was head of the Native Administration in Borno and was a minister for Social Services in the 1950s. He held the traditional title of Waziri of Borno after two previous Waziris had been forced to resign as a result of scandals in the Borno local administration.

He was a close associate of Ahmadu Bello. [Ahmadu Bello. My Life, Cambridge University Press, 1962. p 31.]

Life

Kashim Ibrahim attended Borno Provincial School and later went to the Katsina Training College to earn a teaching certificate. He started working as a teacher in 1929 at the Borno Middle School and by 1933, he had become a Provincial Visiting Teacher. He was later promoted to a Senior Visiting Teacher and education officer for the province of Borno. He joined politics in 1951-1952, when he was elected into the Northern Regional Assembly, from his position, he was made the minister for Social Services and later that of Education.

In 1956, he was appointed as the Waziri of Borno by the Shehu. [Rosalynde Ainslie, Catherine Hoskyns, Ronald Segal. Political Africa: A Who's Who of Personalities and Parties, Frederick A. Praeger, 1961. p 128.] Waziri Ibrahim, became the Governor of the Northern region in 1963.

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