Jaba, Nigeria culture is one of Africa's number one and most magnificent Art history of ancient Civilization dating back to 500 BC – 200 AD. In 1943, tin mining in the vicinity of the village of NOK near the Jos Plateau region of Nigeria, the area where Jaba local government of Kaduna state is currently located was brought to light as a terracotta head, evidence of the oldest known figurative sculpture south of the Sahara was excavated. Although stylistically related heads, figures, animals, and pottery shards have been found in a number of Nigerian sites since that time, such works are identified
Andrew Jonathan Nok Andrew Jonathan Nok Andrew Jonathan Nok, NNOM (11 February 1962 – 21 November 2017) was a Nigerian Professor of Biochemistry and the public affairs secretary of the Nigerian Academy of Science. In 2010 he was a recipient of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM), in the Science category. and he 2013 he won the Alexander Humboldt Prize. Nok was born on 11 February 1962 in Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria. His parents were from Nok village in the Jaba local government area of Kaduna State.He attended the LEA Primary School in Kaduna before he proceeded to Government Secondary School,