Hon. Umar Yusuf Yabo Member of the House of Representatives

Yabo / Shagari · Sokoto State · North West Nigeria

The constituency

The Yabo/Shagari Federal Constituency is a federal constituency in Sokoto State, in Nigeria’s North West geopolitical zone. It is made up of two local government areas: Yabo and Shagari. The seat has been returned to Hon. Umar Yusuf Yabo, who represents it in the House of Representatives.

The area is predominantly rural and agricultural. When he distributed free farm inputs to 2,800 farmers in Shagari Local Government Area in July 2025, the lawmaker described his constituents as predominantly farmers and described agriculture as the backbone of the local economy.

Local Government Area 1

Yabo

Contains Yabo town, where the November 2023 empowerment distributions and the December 2024 equipment distribution were reported to have taken place. Ebba Layout, in Yabo, is named among road works.

Local Government Area 2

Shagari

Site of the July 2025 farm inputs distribution to 2,800 farmers, and of the mini solar grid reported as being facilitated for underserved communities.

Twenty wards · ten in each local government

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Overview

Yabo Local Government Area

Shagari Local Government Area

Where the work is documented

Projects by sector

Healthcare

Donu Primary Healthcare Centre

Inspected after completion and renovation in February 2026. Full project page with gallery slots.

Education

Classroom blocks

Blocks of two, three and six classrooms across eight named schools.

Water

Boreholes and pumps

Twenty motorised boreholes in 2024; fifty water pumps in 2023.

Infrastructure

Township roads

Five named road projects across Yabo and Shagari.

Energy

Solar street lights and mini grid

Street lighting in several areas, and a mini solar grid reported as in progress in Shagari LGA.

Community

Mosques and renovations

Four Jumu‘at mosques reported, plus mosque renovations in the 2024 works.
Screen capture from a photo album: pallets of bagged fertiliser stacked on sandy ground, with men standing among them and vehicles parked behind. Screen capture from a photo album: long rows of new motorcycles, still wrapped in plastic, lined up on red dirt. Screen capture from a photo album: rows of knapsack sprayers and small engines set out on open ground, with a crowd gathered under canopies behind. Screen capture from a photo album: a cream and green single-storey school block with matching green doors, and men standing along its frontage.
Farm inputs distribution, Shagari LGA, July 2025. Photograph pending authorisation
Photovoltaic panels stacked on cleared ground inside a compound, with a wire fence and thorny scrub beyond. Hon. Umar Yusuf Yabo, in a light blue outfit and sunglasses, in conversation with community members beside a partly built block wall. A long single-storey building under construction in unfired block, its door and window openings still empty and the walls uncapped. The corner of the same block building, with a bare doorway and fresh blockwork running out across the sandy, harvested ground.
Mini solar grid, reported as in progress in Shagari LGA. Photograph pending authorisation