Emmanuel Umar

Emmanuel Bagna Umar is a Nigerian politician who served as the Niger State Commissioner for Local Government between 2021 and 2023.

Biography Umar was born on October 12, 1975, in Bagna, Shiroro LGA, Niger State, Nigeria to a Gbagyi family. He attended the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna, where he earned a master's degree in strategy and security administration. He began working in intelligence services of the Nigerian government in 1997. On September 22, 2021, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello appointed Umar the state Commissioner of Local Government, Internal Security, and Chieftain Affairs on a temporary basis after the resignation of Abdulmalik Sarkin Daji. Daji had resigned following a crisis after the death of Kontagora local chief, or Sarkin Sudan, on September 9. Umar's role was to guide elections for the next Sarkin Sudan. In January 2022, an operation by Niger State security forces under Umar to dislodge bandits from the town of Kusatsu retrieved 500 livestock from fleeing bandits, although several security forces died. Umar claimed in March 2022 that security operations had killed several gangs of bandits in Mariga and Munya. Several Chinese nationals, however, were abducted by bandits when working on the Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Station.