Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has come out to say that the introduction of Information Communication Technology, ICT, has made the state the safest in Nigeria.

He revealed this during a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja.

According to him, Kano has launched tracking devices in the state to track every movement, including vehicles.

He added that his state now offers a conducive environment for the security agencies and this has boosted its security amazingly.

Ganduje hailed the fact that Kano also has an army training Centre at Falgore, which is the biggest forest in the country.

He said the Almajiri Education System the state recently embraced, that guarantees free and compulsory education from primary to secondary has also aided their development.

He then promised to work on other sectors and make Kano one of the best states in Nigeria.

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Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, OFR (born 25 December 1945) is a Nigerian politician and current Governor of Kano State since 2015. He previously served as deputy governor twice between 1999 and 2003 and 2011 to 2015.

Ganduje was born in Ganduje village of Dawakin Tofa local government area of Kano State in 1949. He started his early education in Qur’anic and Islamiyya school at his village Ganduje where he became trained in Islamic knowledge. He later moved to headquarters of his local government where he attended Dawakin Tofa Primary School from 1956 to 1963. Ganduje attended the Government Secondary School Birnin Kudu from 1964 to 1968. Ganduje attended Advanced Teachers’ College, Kano between 1969 and 1972. He then attended Ahmadu Bello University, located in Zaria, Kaduna State, where he graduated with a Bachelors in Science Education in 1975.