Kagara Emirate

Kagara Emirate in the history has three rulers including the present ruler, the second emir of Kagara Alhaji Salihu Tanko, Who has died after suffering from illness.[1] After his death the Alhaji Ahmed Garba Gunna became the third emir of Kagara.[2][3][4] and the first Emir Attahiru Ahmadu. [[File:Marigayi_Alhaji_Salihu_Tanko_Sarkin_Kagara_na_ll.jpg|thumb|{{en|Late Alhaji Salihu Tanko Emir of Kagara ll ]]

The town has a talc processing plant.[5] Construction of a dam was initiated in 1979 for a sum of N5 billions. The Federal University of Technology Minna carried out the Environmental Impact assessment for the Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority (UNRBDA).[6] About N3 billions had been paid by February 2002, when the Minister of Water Resources, Muktar Shagari, gave the contractor a deadline to complete the dam by December that year. In February 2004 the Minister of State for Water Resources, Mr. Bashr Ishola Awotorebo visited the dam site, and as a result called the contractor to account for delays in the project.[7] In August 2004, while presenting 500 hand pumps from the Federal Government to the Niger State Governor, Abdulkadir Kure, Mukhtar Shagari said the dam project could be doomed due to non-approval of the budgetary allocation.[8] In August 2007, Bala Kuta of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, a National House of Assembly representative, pledged to help with the dam project.[9]

One student is killed and 27 students, three teachers, twelve family members) were kidnapped by bandits on 17 February 2021.[10]

Remains of the Iron Age Nok culture have been found at Kagara, which lies at the far northwest end of the zone of Nok culture.[11]