Ibrahim Jalo Waziri

Ibrahim Jalo Waziri COS CFR (17 December 1926 – 12 November 1984) was a teacher, administrator, traditional leader and politician from North Nigeria who was twice elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria from 14 November 1960 to 1963 and 1963 until the 1966 Military coup in January.

During the time of independence, he was representing Gombe Central. Prior to that he served as the Deputy from 1959 to 1960. During the 1979 election, he was the Bauchi State South East Senatorial District senator serving from 1979 to 1983 and was the Majority Leader during his second term as a senator. He was the chieftains title of 'Wazrin' Gombe till his death.

Background Jalo was born in Gombe, Gombe State into a royal advisor family of Gombe Emirates, his father, a Fulani from the dynasty of Nafada Muhammadu Jingudo was the 'Ubandoma' of the Emirate. He began his education in a Qur'anic school before in 1936 was enrolled in Gombe Elementary School until 1940 then he attended the Bauchi Middle School from 1940 to 1943 and there he went to attends the now known as Barewa College before as Katsina College then to Kaduna College and finally renamed to Barewa from 1943 to 1946. He enters the Teachers Training College, Zaria in 1946 and graduated in 1948 with a Grade II Certificate and he went for a West African Local Government Course from the London School of Economics from 1954 to 1955.

Career After he had obtained his Grade II Certificate, he started working as a teacher in 1948 at the Bauchi Middle School to 1952 where he became Headmaster at the Gombe Senior Primary School, the same year his father the chieftains holder of 'Ubandoma' of Gombe Emirate died as that result his succeed his title as the Ubandoma of Gombe Emirate, with that traditional position and as headmaster he usually performs two functions.

He was later titled the Waziri of Gombe Emirate during that time he was in London for Local government course in 1956 there after he came back to the country.

1958 to 1966 politics He joined the Northern People Congress political party in 1958 and contest for Regional legislature of Kaduna, after he had won the election he moved to Lagos and there after in 1959 to 1960, he was made Deputy Speaker of the Representative the last position held before becoming the Speaker of the Representative in 1960 to 1966.

When serving as the Speaker he extend electricity supply to some part of Gombe including providing the communication services unlike the one of 'telephone' and was once the Chief Architea of extending the North-Eastern Railway-line through the north Nigeria having situate the head place in Bauchi.