By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna Governor Uba Sani has said Kaduna State is now better than he met it in 2023, declaring that his a...
By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna
Governor Uba Sani has said Kaduna State is now better than he met it in 2023, declaring that his administration has made measurable progress across key sectors despite inheriting deep-rooted challenges.
The governor spoke at a workshop for senior government officials organised by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations as part of the ongoing Nigeria Public Relations Week, Croc City 2026, in Kaduna.
The workshop, themed “From Policy To Public Trust: Strategic Communication For Vision Alignment And Governance Delivery For Renewed Hope,” drew commissioners, special advisers, counsellors, permanent secretaries and other top officials.
Sani said he met a state with immense potential but weighed down by security challenges, infrastructure gaps and weak social indicators, which required urgent intervention.
According to him, incremental adjustments were insufficient, stressing that his administration embraced a disciplined reorientation of governance anchored on measurable impact.
He said the government institutionalised a performance framework built around Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure accountability across ministries, departments and agencies.
The governor added that his agenda was structured around seven pillars—security, infrastructure, institutional strengthening, trade and investment, agriculture, human capital development and citizen engagement—designed as interconnected drivers of growth.
He identified security as the foundation of development, noting that his administration collaborated with the Office of the National Security Adviser and military authorities to establish new bases in Giwa, Birnin Gwari and Southern Kaduna, while also deploying over 150 operational vehicles and 500 motorcycles to security agencies.
Sani said the government reclaimed over 20,000 hectares of farmland, resettled more than 1,000 displaced persons and continued support for over 117,000 internally displaced persons, particularly women and children.
He further disclosed that Kaduna established Northern Nigeria’s first forensic laboratory and launched the Kaduna Incident Report Centre (KAD-IR) for round-the-clock emergency response, alongside early warning systems and community peace structures under what he described as the “Kaduna Peace Model.”
On education, the governor said his administration constructed 736 classrooms, renovated over 1,200, recruited 10,000 teachers and trained more than 33,000 personnel, reducing the number of out-of-school children from about 550,000 to 187,720 within two years.
He added that the state is aligning education with economic needs through the Institute of Vocational Training and Skills Development, focusing on ICT, mechatronics and renewable energy.
In the health sector, Sani said 255 primary healthcare centres were upgraded to Level-2 facilities, 23 centres of excellence established across local governments and a 300-bed specialist hospital delivered to reduce medical tourism.
He said about 150 road projects covering over 1,300 kilometres are ongoing across the 23 local government areas to connect rural communities to urban markets and stimulate economic activities.
The governor added that the agricultural budget rose from ₦1.48 billion in 2023 to over ₦74 billion, with over 900 trucks of fertiliser distributed and more than 100,000 farmers enrolled in insurance schemes, while investments worth over $743 million have been realised, with a pipeline of $2.77 billion, bringing the total to over $3.5 billion.
In his presentation on Vision Alignment and Policy Communication at the Executive Level, the NIPR President, Ike Neliaku, stressed the need for principal officers of government to fully understand the vision of their principals to enable them align with it and effectively communicate it to their subordinates and the general public.
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