Nigeria at 65: We are overcoming, rising together – Gov Uba Sani

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo

Kaduna — Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has assured residents that contempt Nigeria’s daunting challenges, the state is connected a dependable way of betterment and growth, anchored connected unity, resilience, and corporate action.

In his 65th Independence Anniversary connection delivered connected Wednesday, the Governor declared that Nigeria has “weathered galore storms yet continues to basal tall, proud, and unbroken,” urging citizens to marque independency meaningful by moving unneurotic for peace, justice, and prosperity.

Governor Sani said his medication is translating imaginativeness into enactment done strategical and people-centred investments successful infrastructure, agriculture, quality superior and peacebuilding.

He disclosed that 85 roadworthy projects covering 785 kilometres had been launched crossed the state, with astir fractional already completed, to heighten commercialized and marketplace access. Under the Rural Revitalisation Agenda, helium noted, implicit 500,000 hectares of abandoned farmland person been reclaimed, portion cardinal markets including Birnin Gwari Livestock Market and Kidandan Market successful Giwa person been reopened to boost commerce.

The politician highlighted important gains successful education, including the instrumentality of 10,728 out-of-school children to classrooms and the reopening of 535 schools antecedently unopen owed to insecurity. He besides announced the upgrading of 255 Primary Health Centres successful agrarian communities, arsenic good arsenic the constitution of 3 vocational institutes to equip youths and women with marketable skills.

On agriculture, Sani emphasized its cardinal relation successful Kaduna’s development, pointing retired that implicit 10 percent of the 2025 fund was allocated to the assemblage — the highest successful caller years — to enactment smallholder farmers and bolster nutrient security.

The politician stressed that sustainable improvement cannot beryllium achieved without peace, highlighting his administration’s investments successful assemblage policing, reconciliation initiatives, and enactment for victims of struggle to rebuild spot and foster peaceful coexistence.

“Justice, equity and inclusion are the cornerstones of our governance approach. We are gathering a Kaduna State wherever argumentation is driven by fairness and enactment guided by empathy,” Sani said.

He pledged Kaduna State’s afloat enactment for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which helium described arsenic “driving bold reforms to unafraid peace, reconstruct prosperity, and fortify antiauthoritarian governance.”

Concluding, Governor Uba Sani urged Nigerians to stay steadfast: “As we observe today, fto america renew our committedness to gathering a federation wherever anticipation thrives and unity endures. With God’s guidance and our corporate resolve, we volition flooded our challenges and realise the afloat imaginable of our authorities and country.”

He ended with a prayer: “May God bless Kaduna State. May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

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