🏛️ State Executive Council Meeting Summary
Date: Monday, 3rd November 2025
Chairman: His Excellency, Malam Umar A. Namadi, FCA
Position: Executive Governor of Jigawa State
🚔 1. Enhancing Security Operations – Purchase of Operational Vehicles and Motorcycles
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Approved Amount: ₦827,080,000.00
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10 Toyota Hilux Vehicles (2020 Model): ₦760,080,000.00
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50 Hunter Brand Motorcycles: ₦67,000,000.00
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Purpose: To enhance the operational efficiency of security agencies across Jigawa State.
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Objective:
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Strengthen logistics and mobility for security personnel
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Improve surveillance and rapid response capability
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Enhance security coverage in rural and hard-to-reach areas
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Impact:
This approval demonstrates the administration’s continued commitment to safeguarding lives and property, maintaining peace and order, and creating an environment conducive for investment and socio-economic growth.
🏫 2. Educational Transformation – Renovation, Construction & Equipping of Technical and Vocational Schools
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Approved Amount: ₦14,227,081,832.15
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Purpose: Comprehensive renovation, construction, and equipment supply for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions across the state.
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Scope of Work:
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Renovation of classrooms, workshops, auditoriums, hostels, and health centres
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Construction of new infrastructure where required
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Supply of modern training tools and equipment
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Beneficiary Institutions:
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Dutse Model School
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Senior Science Secondary School, Kafin Hausa
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Bamaina Academy
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Jigawa College of Remedial and Advanced Studies (JICORAS)
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Dutse Polytechnic
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Bilyaminu Usman Polytechnic, Hadejia
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Jigawa State Polytechnic of Information and Communication Technology, Kazaure
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Centre for Vocational and Technical Education, Garki
Objectives:
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Revitalize technical and vocational institutions to meet modern educational standards
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Equip students with practical, 21st-century skills
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Tackle youth unemployment through skills acquisition and innovation
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Strengthen the 12-Point Agenda focus on human capital development and economic diversification
Impact:
This massive investment reaffirms the administration’s vision for sustainable development, innovation, and job creation through the promotion of technical and vocational education.
🕌 3. Strengthening Tsangaya Education – Construction of Wall Fencing, Kitchen & Toilets
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Approved Amount: ₦371,343,187.99
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Scope: Construction of perimeter fences, kitchen/dining facilities, and pit-latrine toilets at three (3) Mega Tsangaya Schools in:
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Dutse
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Kafin Hausa
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Ringim
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Additional Provision:
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30% mobilization fund released for immediate project commencement.
Objectives:
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Provide a safe and secure learning environment for pupils and teachers
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Improve hygiene, nutrition, and overall wellbeing of learners
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Support ongoing reforms to integrate Islamic and Western education under the state’s human capital development agenda
Impact:
This project underscores the Namadi administration’s dedication to inclusive and holistic education, ensuring that all children—especially those in Tsangaya schools—learn in dignity, safety, and good health.
🏥 4. Healthcare Development – Hospital Renovation, Equipment Supply & Maternal/Child Health Interventions
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Approved Amount: ₦3,672,235,180.74
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Purpose: Strengthen healthcare delivery and maternal-child health services across the state.
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Scope of Work:
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Supply of hospital equipment to 30 Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities
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Renovation and upgrade of Dutse General Hospital
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Procurement of Free Delivery Packs (Mama Kits) for pregnant women under the Safe Motherhood Initiative
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Procurement of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for malnourished children under five years
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Objectives:
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Improve healthcare infrastructure and service delivery
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Reduce maternal and child mortality rates
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Strengthen Jigawa’s health system under the 12-Point Agenda for Greater Jigawa
Impact:
This intervention reflects the administration’s commitment to universal health coverage, improved maternal and child care, and equitable access to quality healthcare across all communities in the state.
✍️ Official Statement
Signed:
Sagir Musa Ahmed
Honourable Commissioner of Information, Youth, Sport and Culture