This article gives a good perspective on Jigawa and how Lamido thinks. Lets note that Jigawa is about Nigeria's poorest with a poverty rating of 95% as given by the CBN, yet Lamido has taken the state by the scruff of the neck and is actually building something that competes with older, more established states (North and South).
There are several skills building and poverty alleviation schemes, but lets leave that for later (or someone else). Here's the intro to Jigawa:

[size=14pt]DUTSE: DUSTING OFF A POOR PAST[/size]

Dutse
There are now highrise buildings in Dutse, Jigawa State capital. They rose in bits, brick by brick until they began touching and nudging the navel of low lying clouds. Before Dutse dropped its garb as a local government headquarters on May 29, 1991, it was only a dot on the map of another state, Kano. It was one of those little, lonely places one zoomed past on his way to somewhere else more real. In those days, Dutse was that dusty hamlet where a horde of raggedly kids clutching begging bowls ran after your car and you accelerated mischievously, left and forgot them in a blaze of dust.

Growing pain
But out of that dust, a big city is gradually rising. To mould the city, villages of mud houses and straw roofs, shanties and lean-tos had to be knocked down. They had to give way for asphalt roads, modern, befitting housing projects, re-mapped streets and sewage. As expected, a Babel of protest rose. Some of those directly affected alleged it was the policy of the party in power to drive non- card members out of town.

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Much more here: http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/17338/1/dutse-dusting-off-a-poor-past.html

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thank you GEJ for this

@13volts: Do you live in Jigawa? What about progress on healthcare and education?

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ekt_bear:

@13volts: Do you live in Jigawa? What about progress on healthcare and education?

born and bred in jigawa state and a proud son of the soil

Sule Lamido is to be applauded for this first step. However, I want to know how many civil servants have access to the scheme. Infrastructural development, tourism, commerce and security will bring investors into the city. Nice one.

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Dude, the address you gave didn't work.

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staff quarters and the entrance gate

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Intresting. So He gets a credit in housing what about the other sectors like security, education, employment, healthcare, infrastructure e.t.c

From the look of things, i'l get lost in Jigawa and nobody would believe I spent 6yrs schooling there.
Kudos Lamido. Thats what we all want

I'd still like to see what the budget, allocation and revenue information looks like, 13volts. As the Good Book says, "To whom much is given. . . "

Information on other areas too (education, healthcare, etc) is also important.

Poverty rate @ 95%! So these housing projects don't and won't impact on the lives of most jigawa jigawa people.

road construction. do you know that you can travel to all the local government areas in jigawa on one of the best road network any state can offer. noting like bad road in jigawa state

J12:

Poverty rate @ 95%! So these housing projects don't and won't impact on the lives of most jigawa jigawa people.

rome was not built in a day. more roads

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J12:

Poverty rate @ 95%! So these housing projects don't and won't impact on the lives of most jigawa jigawa people.

I don't understand this sort of thinking.

Who cares if it impacts the lives of most Jigawa people? He isn't using any (or much) public funds to do it. He is just the middle man arranging the loan for the civil servants to own homes.

That you'll turn those civil servants into property owners w/o any (or much) public funds spent is a good thing. You've now create a middle class, who will now grow the local economy.

There is pretty much no way to knock this housing scheme.

My observation is that the governor focused on housing.That's a pretty good one

lamido and goje seem to the only performing governors in the north and maybe aliyu, but what is lamido doing about health and education in jigawa, those are important sectors and should be priorities in the mind of a northern governor,

Some budget info from an article written by one of Lamido's staff:
http://sunday.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5721:an-insight-into-sule-lamidos-n7725bn-budget&catid=16:community-news-pyramid-trust&Itemid=28

N77 billion budget, so roughly $500 million.

I'm having difficulty finding out how much he is spending on education, healthcare, roads, etc. I sort of want a more precise breakdown

ekt_bear:

I'd still like to see what the budget, allocation and revenue information looks like, 13volts. As the Good Book says, "To whom much is given. . . "

Information on other areas too (education, healthcare, etc) is also important.

Government Programmes and Projects
HEALTH

1. Payment of monthly social security allowance to disabled persons
2. Free maternal and child health care
3. Payment of monthly allowances to students of schools of nursing and health technology
4. General renovation, equipping, supply of medicaments and recruitment of qualified health personnel
5. Establishment of Jigawa state medical supply organisation (JIMSO)
6. Free Medical Care For All Prison Inmates.
7. Rehabilitation, Renovation, completion, Equiping and construction of Administrative Block at Rasheed Shekoni Specialist Hospita
8. Distribution of free Treated Musquito nets to the people of the state.
9. Introduction of "Ask Jigawa People" health initiative.

|Health Project Pictures|Rasheed Shekoni Specialist Hospital Dutse|
EDUCATION

1. Free girls and disabled education
2. Introduction of public private partnership programme “PPP” on schools improvement
3. Introduction of “rescue our schools” programme for improvement of all learning institutions in the state
4. Re-introduction of schools inspection and monitoring
5. Recruitment of qualified teachers and training for those already employed.
6. Provision of learning materials, schools furniture, beds and Beddings.
7. 100% increment on students scholarships
8. E-payment of scholarship allowances
9. 100% increment on students feeding
10. Construction of 31no new hostels blocks for 6200 boarding students (secondary schools)
11. Construction of 38no new blocks of 3 classrooms each
12. Construction of 70no blocks of science laboratories
13. Complete renovation works in 48no schools
14. Construction of new 169no, 6 seater toilet blocks
15. Sponsorship of 103 students to study ICT in Singapore
16. Restoration of overseas postgraduate scholarship programme
17. Construction of new lecture theatres, classroom blocks & Admistrative offices in all tertiary institutions of the state
18. Free medical care for boarding students
19. Provision of 32 sitter buses for all girls boarding schools
20. Excellence merit award to graduates that excel in their first degree and award of automatic scholarship for post graduate studies
21. Annual sponsorship of 100 best students in the state to study overseas
22. Re-introduction of mock examinations for final year student

ekt bear said

N77 billion budget, so roughly $500 million.

I'm having difficulty finding out how much he is spending on education, healthcare, roads, etc. I sort of want a more precise breakdown

I don't see much of a financial problem. Don't forget they're only 4 million people in Jigawa. It's not like they need that many roads for instance.

^-- I'm not complaining, just trying to get a sense of how much the guy is working with, what he is spending where.

And regarding the official 4 million figure, if what I've seen of pop density in Kano State holds true for Jigawa, it is probably double (at least) the real #.

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ekt_bear:

I don't understand this sort of thinking.

Who cares if it impacts the lives of most Jigawa people? He isn't using any (or much) public funds to do it. He is just the middle man arranging the loan for the civil servants to own homes.

That you'll turn those civil servants into property owners w/o any (or much) public funds spent is a good thing. You've now create a middle class, who will now grow the local economy.

There is pretty much no way to knock this housing scheme.

I was only complaining about the level of poverty in the state. I know that the projects are the work of the FMB and it is commendable. At least it would give the state a little infrastructural upliftment for the time being.

The comments in bold is funny.

@GARTH: Watching that now. Impressive so far.

What do you mean by "highly educated citizens?" Relative to where?

@J12: You may laugh, but that is how America brought people into the middle class. Ownership of property. A man spends 30 years paying his mortgage then at the end of that process has an asset that is worth a lot of money. That he can then pass on to his kids. Or borrow against to educate his kids, turn them into a doctor or engineer.

Home ownership is critical.

@ 13 volts
kai ma'aikacin gwamnati ne ko?

I'm really not surprised, been following Jigawa for some time now. Obviously, the administration over there got good heads on their shoulders,


Many kudos to them,