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)