ADAMAWA STATE

             ADAMAWA STATE (THE LAND OF SUNSHINE AND BEAUTY)

Adamawa State is located at the North eastern part of Nigeria. It lies between latitude 7 and 11N and between longitude 11 and 14 E. its shares boundary with Taraba State in the south and west. Gombe state in its North-West and Borno State to the North, the state has an international boundary with the Cameroon Republic along its eastern side. It has a total area of 39,742.12 square kilometers. The 2005 projected population of the State is 3,106,585. The state is generally characterized by many rivers; the major one is the River Benue whose source is from the highlands of the Cameroon and flows Southward to join the River Niger. The State is divided into 21 local government area. Adamawa State has a tropical wet and dry climate. Dry season lasts for a minimum of five months (November-March) while the wet season spans April to October. Mean Annual rainfall in the State ranges from 700mm in the North-West to 1600mm in the extreme southern part of the State.
The State is naturally divided into two ecological zones; the guinea and Sudan Savannah Zones. In general, the distribution of vegetation reflects the combined control of rainfall, topography and to a lesser extent, that of soils. Agriculture is the mainstay of about 80% of the inhabitants of the state. The ecological condition of the State permits cultivation of root crops cereals and rearing of livestock in large numbers.

Adamawa State is blessed with abundant human and material resources, readily at the disposal of every investor to harness. The state has a fertile land suitable for agricultural activities and other economic activities. Majority of the people in Adamawa State are farmers, cattle rearing are also a major occupation, while village communities living on the banks of Rivers Gongola and Benue and their tributaries in the State engage in fishing and farming.
The major mineral raw materials are granite, barite, trona, salt, coal, gypsum, limestone, uranium, kaolin, sand, limestone, marble, magnesite lateritic etc. while the agro raw materials are sorghum, millet, beniseed, sweet, potatoes, water melon, onions, poultry, groundnut, pepper, groundnut, pepper, Bambara, cowpea, sorrel, livestock, coffee, cocoa, fishery, kenaf, sheanuts. Etc.
Adamawa State is a land of sunshine and beauty. The radiant Sun, pounds the surface of the earth upon the rising of day forcing its presence onto the green and blue, allowing the color of day, to be spread upon the canvas of life. With an artist’s eye, one can see the beauty, the bush strokes and hues, and the interpret the morning, the day as a true work of art. The Sun shines and smiles as a bridegroom coming out of its chamber and rejoice as a strong man to run a race. Its line goes out through all the earth. The Sun determines the revolution and rotation of the earth. Adamawa state is one of the State that is enriched with natural, human, and mineral resources that added beauty to the land specifically. Adamawa State is known to have been endowed with enormous potentials, making the state to have special attributes and distinctive uniqueness in terms of arable land for Agriculture blessed with many tribes and dialects, it has rich and loaded historical heritage as in housing Sukur cultural heritage in Madagali Local Government . Another gift by this Wonder Land, is the sun shines ability of the sun to generate electricity if properly harness.
We must not underestimate the significance of the sun. The sun plays a great role in man, plants and animals. One of the amazing things sunlight provides for us is vitamin D. it is absorbed through the skin and converted to a state that the body can use. It usually requires about thirty minutes of sunlight a day to acquire a minimum dose. Vitamin D is important for the creation and maintenance of bones.
Plants have specific organs in their cells that convert sunlight to food energy through a process known as photosynthesis. A plant will capture the sun rays in the chloroplast through a chemical reaction and this conversion gives plants the ability to supply calories to all life. It is by plants that cows are fed and then the humans that feed on the cows. In this way, sunlight provides the source of food for all life on earth.

It takes the light of the sun eight minutes to reach us, and still it is only a fraction of the powerful heat generated by our star. Yes, it is obvious perk of having a sun, but we would have nothing if there was no light, and to pursue the things we enjoy most. Without the light of the sun, there would not be any life on earth. There would be no star to orbit, and no heat to sustain us. In short, without the life giving light of the sun, we would be a species lost. In fact, we would not even exist.

THE SUNSHINE AND BEAUTY OF ADAMAWA STATE
The youths are the sunshine and beauty of Adamawa State, they are the backbone of the development of the country. The youths are defined as persons resident in Nigeria in the age (12-30 years), physically, psychologically, culturally, socially, biologically and politically. If Adamawa State is to be sustained as a viable entity there must be a very good plan to tap the energy and resourcefulness of the youth population to fast track the economic development.
Youth development brings reformation and transformation related to the human capacity to improve the quality of life in order to eradicate poverty, unemployment and economic declination. The process of development expands human capabilities by expanding the choices that people have to live full and creative lives.
It is also on record, the state produced great politicians right from the first republic, where people like Late Mahmud Ribadu, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa the beautiful land of Adamawa kept producing giants men with great strides in the affairs of this country in politics. The likes of Mamuda Waziri, Bamanga Tuku, Prof Jibril Aminu And Atiku Abubakar.
In the Academics Field research revealed that I the entire North with the exception of Kogi and Benue there’s non state that has high number of Academics both home and abroad are having as Adamawa man as a professor.
Adamawa is a land flowing with milk and honey naturally in which it can create employment to the people irrespective of the tribe, dialect, culture and religion. Adamawa State has abundant of land that can be utilized positively and economically foe establishment of industries (Solar Industries, Coal Industries, agro-allied industries, manufacturing industries etc).

ADAMAWA STATE KEEP SHINING