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Governor Uba Sani Unveils Bold Education Blueprint at KADA EduPACT Summit


Kaduna Hosts KADA EduPACT 2025 Summit, Reaffirms Bold Education Reforms

Kaduna State has once again placed education at the heart of its development agenda as it hosted the KADA EduPACT International Summit 2025 at the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Centre, Murtala Square. Governor Uba Sani used the occasion to reaffirm his administration’s unwavering commitment to leveraging education as a strategic weapon against poverty, unemployment, and insecurity.

Addressing stakeholders and global partners at the summit, Governor Sani declared that education is not just a sector to be administered but the state’s most potent tool for social transformation and economic revitalisation. He unveiled a comprehensive, data-driven blueprint focused on infrastructure renewal, teacher quality enhancement, digital learning, and inclusive policies aimed at reaching vulnerable groups such as girls, nomadic children, those living with disabilities, and children affected by conflict.

Despite prevailing global fiscal constraints, Kaduna has maintained a strong education budget, expanding digital and radio learning platforms and prioritising foundational literacy. The administration’s investment in technical education is also gaining traction with the completion of three NBTE-certified Institutes of Vocational Training and Skills Development in Rigachikun, Samaru Kataf, and Soba facilities now considered among Nigeria’s most advanced, even rivaling established polytechnics and universities.

The governor further revealed that the iconic Panteka Market Africa’s largest informal skills hub with over 38,000 apprentices—is undergoing a major transformation under the Nigerian Skills Qualification Framework, including modern facilities and updated training equipment.

In higher education, the state has injected ₦500 million into Kaduna State University (KASU), leading to accreditation for 40 new academic programmes. The introduction of a 40% tuition cut across all state-owned tertiary institutions has already sparked a surge in enrolment.

Tackling the issue of out-of-school children, Governor Sani highlighted the ongoing Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROOSC) Project. The initiative has seen the construction or rehabilitation of over 1,000 classrooms, the establishment of 62 new secondary schools, distribution of nearly 1.5 million instructional materials, and provision of 31,000 two-seater desks. These interventions are monitored through digital dashboards to track impact and progress.

The summit also spotlighted the KADA EduPACT framework, which is built on six pillars: equitable access, quality teaching and learning, sustainable financing, digital innovation, gender inclusion, and a resilient, well-monitored education system.

Minister of Education, Maruf Alausa, praised Kaduna’s proactive policies, calling the summit a model for national and sub-national education reform. British Deputy High Commissioner, Gill Lever OBE, reaffirmed the UK’s continued partnership with Kaduna through the PLANE programme. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed lauded the state’s efforts to localise global education goals amidst worldwide disruptions caused by inequality and climate-related challenges.

Kaduna’s Commissioner for Education, Professor Abubakar Sambo, described the summit as a defining moment for the state’s education transformation. He applauded the government’s record 26% allocation of the 2025 budget to education, which he said is already driving measurable improvements in learning outcomes.

Jointly organised by the Kaduna State Government and international partners—including FCDO, UNICEF, the World Bank’s AGILE initiative, the Islamic Development Bank, Save the Children, the Malala Fund, and Miva University the summit aims to forge a sustainable educational compact between the government and the people, grounded in shared accountability, measurable targets, and long-term impact.

Kaduna State has once again placed education at the heart of its development agenda as it hosted the KADA EduPACT International Summit 2025 at the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Centre, Murtala Square. Governor Uba Sani used the occasion to reaffirm his administration’s unwavering commitment to leveraging education as a strategic weapon against poverty, unemployment, and insecurity.

Addressing stakeholders and global partners at the summit, Governor Sani declared that education is not just a sector to be administered but the state’s most potent tool for social transformation and economic revitalisation. He unveiled a comprehensive, data-driven blueprint focused on infrastructure renewal, teacher quality enhancement, digital learning, and inclusive policies aimed at reaching vulnerable groups such as girls, nomadic children, those living with disabilities, and children affected by conflict.

Despite prevailing global fiscal constraints, Kaduna has maintained a strong education budget, expanding digital and radio learning platforms and prioritising foundational literacy. The administration’s investment in technical education is also gaining traction with the completion of three NBTE-certified Institutes of Vocational Training and Skills Development in Rigachikun, Samaru Kataf, and Soba facilities now considered among Nigeria’s most advanced, even rivaling established polytechnics and universities.

The governor further revealed that the iconic Panteka Market Africa’s largest informal skills hub with over 38,000 apprentices is undergoing a major transformation under the Nigerian Skills Qualification Framework, including modern facilities and updated training equipment.

In higher education, the state has injected ₦500 million into Kaduna State University (KASU), leading to accreditation for 40 new academic programmes. The introduction of a 40% tuition cut across all state-owned tertiary institutions has already sparked a surge in enrolment.

Tackling the issue of out-of-school children, Governor Sani highlighted the ongoing Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROOSC) Project. The initiative has seen the construction or rehabilitation of over 1,000 classrooms, the establishment of 62 new secondary schools, distribution of nearly 1.5 million instructional materials, and provision of 31,000 two-seater desks. These interventions are monitored through digital dashboards to track impact and progress.

The summit also spotlighted the KADA EduPACT framework, which is built on six pillars: equitable access, quality teaching and learning, sustainable financing, digital innovation, gender inclusion, and a resilient, well-monitored education system.

Minister of Education, Maruf Alausa, praised Kaduna’s proactive policies, calling the summit a model for national and sub-national education reform. British Deputy High Commissioner, Gill Lever OBE, reaffirmed the UK’s continued partnership with Kaduna through the PLANE programme. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed lauded the state’s efforts to localise global education goals amidst worldwide disruptions caused by inequality and climate-related challenges.

Kaduna’s Commissioner for Education, Professor Abubakar Sambo, described the summit as a defining moment for the state’s education transformation. He applauded the government’s record 26% allocation of the 2025 budget to education, which he said is already driving measurable improvements in learning outcomes.

Jointly organised by the Kaduna State Government and international partners including FCDO, UNICEF, the World Bank’s AGILE initiative, the Islamic Development Bank, Save the Children, the Malala Fund, and Miva University the summit aims to forge a sustainable educational compact between the government and the people, grounded in shared accountability, measurable targets, and long-term impact.

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ABUJA, FCT

JULY 8, 2025

PRESS STATEMENT

*ADC IS SCARED OF ITS BOGEYMEN SHADOW*

Days after its dreary unveiling, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is, unsurprisingly, already trudging the beaten path of lies and deception like its opposition counterparts, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP).

In its statement of Monday, July 7, 2025, the ADC wildly alleged an imaginary plot by President Bola Tinubu’s administration and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to undermine and destabilise the party. Citing “credible intelligence”, the party claimed that state chairmen in the North East and North West zones of the country were summoned to a “secret meeting with officials of the federal government”, in a plot to intimidate and coerce the opposition coalition.

Beyond the rash of poorly imagined accusations, the statement did not offer substantiation of any kind. It’s vague reference to "officials of federal government" only belies the mischievous intent of its makers to whip up sentiments, manipulate public opinion, and distract Nigerians from the patent hopelessness of their political phishing expedition.

Otherwise, why is it so impossible for ADC to provide Nigerians the details of the alleged “secret meeting” at which its senior party officers were “coerced and intimidated”. Rather, the party cites nonsensical “credible intelligence” as basis for its devious allegations.

Clearly, there was no such meeting, and certainly, no one could have been coerced or intimidated at a meeting that never was. This could have happened only in the warped imagination of masters of deception and marauding invaders of the ADC.

There is no reason for Mr. President or APC to expend valuable time and energy trying to sow confusion within ADC that is already mortally wounded by confusion delivered by its invaders. The ADC needs no help from our great Party to unravel as it must from its own internal dissonance, contradictions and discord of self-serving and vainglorious personalities that executed a gestapo-like takeover of the party to the chagrin of bonafide leaders and members of the party.

The ADC’s statement is just a calculated preemptive excuse for its evident ill-fated future of disintegration, like Humpty Dumpty whose great fall could not be put back together again. It has placed on public display the incompetence and inability of its leadership to manage its impending internal crisis, in the same way they proved incapable of managing the internal affairs of opposition parties they have plundered serially before the ADC.

And what good can possibly come out of a coalition of our country’s most inept politicians and architects of misrule, corruption, poverty and underdevelopment who are now congregated in ADC? What else can be expected from a coalition of failed and restless presidential contenders determined to bring down the roof on the altar of their inordinate ambitions?

As an agglomeration of politicians desperate for presidential power, the ADC has nothing to offer Nigerians and has failed to articulate any alternative vision of governance and development for Nigeria beyond the sound and fury of grudge, vendetta, inordinate presidential ambitions of its leaders. Their strategy appears to begin and end with vilifying our great party and attacking President Tinubu’s incomparable and unassailable record of economic reconstruction and wholesome transformation of our country.

The ADC and its leaders may be convinced of their ability to lie their way to presidential victory but they have a highly intelligent and discerning Nigerian electorate to contend with.

They say one thing, mean another and do yet another. From Mr. Peter Obi’s desperate vow to serve a single term of four years if elected as president, and his pledge to fly only commercial airlines as president, even though he campaigned with steeze and opulence in private jets throughout the 2023 election season; to Mallam El-Rufai who failed spectacularly in comparison to mind-blowing transformation of Abuja by the award-wining incumbent Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike; to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola whose lack-luster performance as Minister of Interior is now so glaring in the face of the innovation and super efficiency introduced by the current Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo; to Hadi Sirika whose tenure as Aviation Minister was characterised by invidious scandals, aside floating a phantom Nigerian Air, now even more disgraceful in comparison with the drastic improvements in our airports and the aviation sector, in general, under the watch of Olorogun Festus Keyamo (SAN), Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, none of the proponents of the coalition has the vision, the courage, competence, credibility, track record, zeal and patriotism to serve Nigeria better than President Bola Tinubu is already doing.

While the opposition wallows in self-inflicted confusion, the Tinubu-administration and our great Party remain undistracted and will continue to build a virile and vibrant country for this and future generations of Nigerians.

Signed:
*Felix Morka, CON*
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)

In a significant development ahead of the upcoming Niger-Delta Economic and Investment Summit, organisers have announced a strategic partnership with the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council.

Ambassador Kenule Nwiya Jnr, Founder of the Regional Economic and Investment Summit and Festivals, confirmed the collaboration, describing it as a major boost to the summit’s mission of driving sustainable economic growth and attracting meaningful investments to the Niger-Delta region.

According to him, the involvement of the Presidential Council underscores the federal government’s commitment to fostering regional development through investment. He also praised the leadership of the Council under Prince Adeyemi, noting his passion and dedication to promoting investment opportunities across Nigeria.

“This year’s summit will take place in Edo State this September and serves as a lead-up to the World Investment Summit, which will also be hosted by the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council,” Amb. Nwiya revealed.

He further emphasized the organisers’ willingness to expand partnerships that support Nigeria’s investment climate, stating that the collaboration with the presidency will help strengthen the country’s investment development goals and promote long-term economic sustainability.