Mai’adua Local Government Council was created on Tuesday 1st October 1991. It is one of the thirty-four (34) local government councils in Katsina State.

Mai’adua Local Government Council has two districts namely Mai’adua and Koza, with Ten (10) electoral wards viz:

• Mai’adua

• Mai’adua

• Mai’adua

• Koza

• Natsalle

• Bum-Bum

• Bum-Bum

• Da nyashe

• Mai Koni

• Mai Koni

It borders Daura local government in the South, Mashi and Dutsi Local Government Councils in the West with Zango Local government Council in the East and shares an international border with Niger Republic in the North.

Mai’adua Local Government Council has a very good road network with a trunk. A tarred road stretching a distance of twenty four (24) kilometres from Daura town and ten (10) kilometres to Niger Republic.

Maradua has a very big market and an international market operat j on Sundays. People from far anó near distance places usually troops to the market on Sundays to buy and sell especially live stocks such as cattle, sheeps, camels, donkeys and other domestic animals. The market also serves as a centre for buying and selling of Agricultural produce sw:h as millet and beans which were cultivated in abundance in the area.

Knowing the importance of the knowledge to the people, the Local Government Council under the leadership of Honourable Aihaji Ya’u Umar Gwajo-Gwajo built Primary Schools, furnished and provided them with learning materials.

He encourages and supports communities to build Community Day Secondary Schools, and being a practicing Moslem, he built a large number of Islamiyya Schools and equipped them with teaching and learning materials, such as Late Abubakar Muhammud Gumi Islamiyya Memorial School at Mai’adua. Because of this, people from neighbouring towns and villages do send their children to the Local Government to acquire qualitative Islamic Education.

The people of Mai’adua are HausaFulani and they are predominantly farmers who engages in both dry and rainy season farming. They equally engage in fishing which assists them a lot in boosting their financial capability. Thanks to the favourable weather provided by Almighty Allah and the Sabke Dam, which is suitable for irrigation activities and farming.There is also irrigation activities in Koza and Tsiga areas of the Local Government Council.

The Local Government Council also have a General Hospital in Mai’adua town built by the Local Government and Five Maternal Child Health (M.C.H) Clinic and other clinics to enhance health care delivery system to the people.

Generally, the people of Mai’adua Local Government area are hardworking, accommodating and peace loving.

ROLL OF HONOUR

Past and Present leaders of Mai’adua Local Government Council below:

1. Alh. NasirAhmed Faskari (Late) 1-10-91 to 1st January 1992

2. Alh. Yusuf Bello January 1992- Nov. 1993

3. Alh. Suleima Ish 1993 -1994

4. AIh. Abdullahi Musa Hafsah Dec. 1994-1995

5. Alh. RabeSani 1995-1996

6. Alh. Yusuf Bello 1996-1998

7. Alh. Ismaila Abdullahi Mabai May 1998-1999

8. Alh. Ya’u Umar Gwajo-Gwajo May 1999-2002

9. Alh. Abubakar Mohammed (Bachara) June 2002-Nov.2002

10. Alh. Ya’u Umar Gwajo-Gwajo Nov. 2002-2003

11. AIh. Ya’u Umar Gwajo-Gwajo April 2004 to date.