In Kaduna metropolis alone, there is Nigeria’s foremost military training school, the Nigerian Defence Academy, the National Water Resources Institute, the National Open University of Nigeria, the National Teachers’ Institute, the Kaduna Polytechnic, the School of Midwifery, the Arewa House, Centre for Historical Documentation and Research, of the Ahmadu Bello University, National Eye Centre, Nigerian Air Force Institute of Technology, the Petroleum Training Institute and the Kaduna State University, among several others. The Centre of Learning tag may as well be the most appropriate for a state that has perhaps the largest concentration of Federal Government educational institutions when compared with other states of the country. Apart from the Gagyi whose population is found at the south eastern flank of the metropolis, complete with its chiefdom, the Hausa and Fulani, along with the Igbo, Yoruba and the indigenous people of Kaduna State, especially from southern Kaduna, constitute a large proportion of residents of Kaduna metropolis. At the height of the 2000 religious riots, the then Governor Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi ordered the removal of the liberal tag attached to the state and adopted the Centre of Learning slogan.
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