Gombe At 20: Dankwambo Keeping History Alive.

History has been an important tool in the measurement of development in any nation or state, it captured the olden days, the present and gives a direction for a veritable future. It’s certain, knowing where you were before, will presumably project the next attainable level. In a former Bauchi State, there was a most productive local government area called Gombe local government which houses the most vibrant politicians, the business tycoons and the most flourishing and record-breaking civil servants in the then Bauchi State.

On the 1st October 1996, Gombe State was created and carved out from Bauchi state by the military administration of General Sani Abacha amidst fanfares and memorable jubilations. Though, being a sovereign and a baby state, Gombe State was confronted with many challenges, especially lack of infrastructures, insufficient housings, little or no advanced and tertiary institutions and what have you, as the state was trying to fit in what has been a hitherto local…