Kashim Ibrahim
{{Short description|Nigerian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| name= Kashim Ibrahim
| image= Kashim Ibrahim.jpg
| office1 = Governor of Northern Nigeria
| term_start1 = 1962
| term_end1 = 16 January 1966
| predecessor1 = Sir Gawain Westray Bell
| successor1 = Hassan Usman Katsina
| title5= Minister for Social Services
| term_start5= 1952
| term_end5= 1953
| predecessor5=
| successor5=
| title2= Minister for Education
| term_start2= 1953
| term_end2= 1955
| predecessor2=
| successor2=
| title3= Regional Minister for Survey
| term_start3= 1955
| term_end3=1956
| predecessor3=
| successor3=
| title4= Waziri of Borno
| term_start4=1956
| term_end4= 1990
| predecessor4= Waziri Wali
| successor4=
| birth_date= 10 June 1910
| birth_place= Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria Protectorate
| death_date= {{death date and age|df=y|1990|7|25|1910|6|10}}
| death_place= Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria
| party= Northern People's Congress
| residence=
| spouse=
| profession= Teacher
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Sir Shettima Kashim Ibrahim, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|CBE}} (10 June 1910 – 25 July 1990)[https://books.google.com/books?id=cYEuAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Kashim+Ibrahim%22+AND+%221910%22 "Ibrahim, Sir Kashim", in Christopher Osadiaye Orumwese Ugowe, Eminent Nigerians of the twentieth century], Hugo Books, 2000, p. 155. was a Nigerian politician who was head of the Native Administration in Borno State and was a minister for Social Services in the 1950s. He held the traditional title of the Waziri of the Emirate of Borno after two previous Waziris had been forced to resign as a result of scandals in the Borno local administration.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
He was a close associate of Sir Ahmadu Bello.Ahmadu Bello, My Life, Cambridge University Press, 1962, p. 31.
Life
File:Chief Arthur Prest on right.jpg during Sir Kashim Ibrahim's visit to the Nigeria House]]
Ibrahim was born in Gargar Ward, Yerwa to the family of Ibrahim Lakanmi.{{cite web
|url=http://www.sharia-in-africa.net/media/publications/sharia-implementation-in-northern-nigeria/vol_1_5_chapter_1_part_II.pdf
|title=The Settlement of 1960: Who was Who
|work=Sati Fwatshak and Philip Ostien
|accessdate=2015-08-28}} He started his education learning Arabic and Quran before attending Borno Provincial School in 1922. In 1925, he was admitted into the Katsina Training College and finished his studies with a teacher's certificate in 1929. 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 was conferred with the title of Shettima of Borno in 1935 and for a while he was known as Shettima Kashim. He joined politics in 1951–52, when he was elected into the Northern Regional Assembly, he was nominated from the North as a cabinet nominee. Thereafter, he was appointed the Federal minister for Social Services and later that of Education.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
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, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1961, p. 128.
Waziri Ibrahim became the Governor of the Northern region in 1962, holding office until the military coup of 16 January 1966 that brought Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi to power.{{cite web
|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_regions.html
|title=Provinces and Regions of Nigeria
|work=WorldStatesmen
|accessdate=2010-05-28}} He was appointed a CBE in 1960 and knighted as a KCMG in 1962.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Category:People from Borno State
Category:20th-century Nigerian politicians
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George