Mashi

Mashi is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria, with its headquarters in the town of Mashi in the LGA's southwest. It shares a border with the Republic of Niger, covers about 905 square kilometers, and had a population of roughly 173,000 at the 2006 census. Like the rest of Katsina State, the area lies within the historic Hausa Bakwai cultural sphere of northern Nigeria, and the modern state itself was created in 1987 from the northern part of Kaduna State.