Gumel Emirate Foundation supports education, digital literacy, health, the environment and community welfare across four local government areas. Explore the Foundation.

Watch out for the Enthronement ceremony

The Enthronement of the 17th Emir of Gumel

His Royal Highness Dr Lawan Ahmed Mohammed Sani

The ceremony time and programme are not yet published here. Check official event updates and find travel and accommodation information.

Official portrait of His Royal Highness Dr Lawan Ahmed Mohammed Sani, 17th Emir of Gumel, in a green turban and embroidered robe

Gumel Emirate Foundation

For the people of Gumel Emirate

A community-founded foundation working across Gumel, Gagarawa, Maigatari and Sule Tankarkar in education, digital literacy, health, the environment and community welfare — sustained by its own motel, halls and ICT centre, and by indigenes and friends of the Emirate.

Noma · Kiwo · Zaman Lafiya

80,000
seedlings reported
4
local government areas
1998
Foundation officially launched
2010
AHDT healthcare collaboration

How we are funded

Our services pay for our programmes

A hall booking, a night at the motel or a course at SISCO funds education, health and empowerment across the Emirate.

Interior of Sarkin Yaki Hall, one of the Foundation's income-generating facilities
Sarkin Yaki Hall · GEF Complex, Gumel
  1. Services run by the Foundation

    Sarkin Yaki Hall and event halls, the GEF Motel and the SISCO ICT Centre, all at the GEF Complex on Hadejia Road, Gumel.

  2. Surplus, donations and Zakat

    Income from the services joins gifts from indigenes, friends and partners, under the oversight of the Board of Trustees.

  3. Programmes across four LGAs

    Education, digital literacy, health, environment and community welfare in Gumel, Gagarawa, Maigatari and Sule Tankarkar.

Explore our services

The late Major General Ibrahim Dahiru Gumel personally financed the Foundation complex, including its land, buildings and furnishings. Today, income from the motel, event halls and ICT centre supplements contributions from indigenes and friends of the Emirate. Read our history.

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