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Dikko

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Dikko is a surname. It may refer to:

People

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Middle name
  • Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, Nigerian policeman and former Inspector General of Police
  • Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu, also known as MD Yusufu or MD Yusuf (1931–2015), Nigerian policeman, Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force, public servant and politician
Surname
  • Abdullahi Dikko (born 1960), Nigerian Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service
  • R.A.B. Dikko (1912–1977), Nigerian doctor and commissioner
  • Muhammadu Dikko (1865-1944), the 47th "Sarki" (Emir) of Katsina (1906-1944)
  • Umaru Dikko (1936–2014), Nigerian politician and minister, exiled in UK, subject of kidnapping attempt known as the Dikko Affair
  • Umar dikko raddah(born 10 september 1969) politician, current Governor of Katsina state
  • Russel Aliyu Barau dikko(born in 1912) medical doctor

See also

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  • Dikko affair, joint Nigerian-Israeli attempt to kidnap UK-based Umaru Dikko, Nigerian former minister in 1984, and secretly transport him back to Nigeria in a diplomatic bag