The Minister of Data and Nationwide Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has described Governor Uba Sani as one of the crucial pleasant communication associates in Nigeria, and that’s the reason he was honoured as Patron of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).
The Minister made the comment shortly after the governor’s investiture on the newly commissioned Brigadier Common Abba Kyari Banquet Corridor, adjourning Sir Kashim Ibrahim Home Kaduna on Tuesday.
Alhaji Mohammed recalled how the Kaduna State Ministry of Data was created in Could 2025, following his intervention, 10 years after it was scrapped.
‘’In December of 2024, His Excellency, Governor Uba Sani, joined us on the Nationwide Council on Data and Nationwide Orientation assembly. At the moment, Kaduna State had no Ministry of Data.
‘’It had been scrapped by the earlier administration. Once we gave the recommendation to His Excellency the Governor to revive that Ministry, he instantly did that,’’ he disclosed.
The Minister additionally stated that Governor Uba Sani ‘’identifies with info administration that’s rooted in public relations and that is likely one of the the explanation why the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations is honouring him in the present day.’’
He disclosed that when the Institute ‘’approached me to intimate the Govt Governor of Kaduna State about this NIPR Week, he requested me what it was all about. After explaining to him, he didn’t hesitate in agreeing to host the NIPR Week in Kaduna.’’
Talking after the investiture, Governor Uba Sani stated that the theme of the NIPR Week resonates with what his administration is doing.
The theme of the 2026 Nigerian Public Relations Week is ‘’Nigeria’s Meals Safety: From Coverage Paper to Public Plates – The Imperatives of Public Relations’’ and the keynote speaker was Ambassador Dr Brylyne Chitsunge, a famend South African-based meals safety professional and CEO of Elpasso Farms.
The governor famous that the theme ‘’aligns with our imaginative and prescient of a food-secure Kaduna, the place coverage will not be confined to paper however translated into productiveness, prosperity, and shared progress.’’
‘’It aligns with our broader {economic} agenda, one which prioritises agriculture, empowers communities, strengthens worth chains, and positions our state as a hub of resilience and alternative,’’ he added.
In accordance with him, ‘’internet hosting this convention is itself an announcement that Kaduna is able to lead conversations that matter. A press release that we consider within the energy of communication to unlock improvement. A press release that partnerships between authorities and professionals like you might be important to transferring our nation ahead.’’
Governor Uba Sani reminded that ‘’the journey from coverage paper to plate is neither computerized nor assured. It’s a deliberate course of constructed on credibility, readability, and connection.
‘’Insurance policies succeed not solely as a result of they’re nicely designed, however as a result of they’re understood, trusted, and embraced by the individuals they’re meant to serve.
‘’Because of this public relations should now not be considered as a peripheral perform, however as a central pillar of governance; bridging the hole between intention and impression, and remodeling reform into lived actuality,’’ he added.
The governor emphasised that ‘’in Kaduna state, we have now taken a daring and deliberate determination to reposition agriculture from the margins of coverage discourse to the very centre of our improvement agenda.’’
‘’Once we assumed workplace in 2023, we inherited a complete of simply ₦1.48 billion as funds for agriculture, representing a mere 0.4% of our state funds.
‘’In 2024 we allotted ₦23.billion, in 2025, and 2026, funds for agriculture surpassed the Malabu declaration of 10% at ₦74.02 bilion for 2025 and 108 Billion for 2026,’’ he disclosed.
In accordance with him, Kaduna state authorities recognises that funding alone doesn’t put meals on the desk, including that ‘’what issues is how coverage interprets into productiveness, and the way help reaches the farmer at scale.’’
‘’By way of our flagship Tallafin Noma (A Koma Gona) programme, we have now supported over 120,000 smallholder farmers with improved seeds, fertilisers, agrochemicals, and mechanisation help.
‘’We have now additionally executed the biggest fertiliser distribution in Kaduna State’s historical past, over 900 vehicles of ferterlizer amounting to 540,000 baggage was distributed free to 300,000 smallholder farmers throughout all 23 native authorities areas.
‘’Equally, in our effort to enhance dry and moist season agriculture, and develop entry to irrigation, we have now distributed over 10,000 photo voltaic powered water pumping machines to our small holder farmers within the state,’’ he added.
Governor Uba Sani identified that the philosophy of his administration is that ‘’agriculture should be steady, not seasonal; inclusive, not selective.’’