HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF KADUNA STATE PARTICULARLY KADUNA NORTH LOCAL GOVT

The state is the successor to the old Northern Region of Nigeria, which had its capital at Kaduna. In 1967 this was split up into six states, one of which was the North-Central State, whose name was changed to Kaduna State in 1976. This was further divided in 1987, losing the area now part of Katsina State. Under the governance of Kaduna is the ancient city of Zaria known as Zaria emirate, the emirate was under the council of powerful native authority up to 11930.  The population of Kaduna is at 760,084 as of the 2006 Nigerian census. The symbol of Kaduna is the crocodile, because of the rivers proving settlement for the crocodiles, called kada in the native Hausa and KADUNA means crocodiles which is the plural. Then was nick

named “KADUNA” was pronounced by dropping out “D” thus it now appear as KADUNA. From what we know from the simplicity of Hausa language one can easily be convinced that this is the way KADUNA was named. The doka area was cleared during the arrival of the West African frontier force. (Vanclay,1999 )

  Kaduna State is mostly populated by Hausa, Gbagyi, Adara, Ham, Atyap, Bajjuu, Ninkyob, Kurama, Koro, zango kataf, mada and Agworok ethnic communities. Kaduna State is divided into 23 Local Government Areas, amongst which is Kaduna north local government with its headquarters are in the town of Doka. But the colonial’s troops occupied the area e.g. some villages like kinkino, barnawa and kawo existed around the present local government area.

Kaduna north local government has an area of 72 km² and a population of 357,694 at the 2006 census. (OED Online)