Kaduna

Kaduna is the capital of Kaduna State in North West Nigeria. It is a trade centre and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas, with its rail and road junction.

Kaduna is the fourth largest state in Nigeria.

Understand
Kaduna's name is derived from the Hausa word kada, for crocodile (kaduna being the plural form). Its population was estimated to be 1.1 million in 2020.

By car
Roads to Kaduna from Abuja and Kano are good. From Abuja the journey takes 2½ hours by car.

By train
Kaduna is an important junction on Nigeria's Cape gauge railway network. At Kaduna, a branch line connects the Lagos–Nguru Railway to the Port Harcourt–Maiduguri Railway via Kafanchan.

Kaduna is also on the route of the planned Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway, which has been completed between the national capital of Abuja and Kaduna. Trains for Abuja depart from the Rigasa Railway Station in Kaduna.

Get around

 * — a district north of Kaduna

See

 * Ahmadu Bello Stadium, on crossing the bridge you meet the stadium roundabout on your left Constitution road you gain entrance into the stadium.
 * Kaduna Polytechnic Main Campus. Kaduna Polytechnic has four branches: Sabo, Barnawa, Ugwan Rimi and Tudun Wada campus. Tudun Wada campus is the main campus.
 * Kaduna Central market: provisions, furnitures, electronics, generators. The market can be accessed from different angles through zaria that is the North Kawo sides. you can get to the market from the south through yakuwa expressway I'm from this house you coming from command junction and from the East coming from bypass that is to the mother bypass that links to air Force base
 * NNPC Quarters, at sabo opposite u/borrow by the roadside leading to refinery junction underneath wall is the part to village.
 * Garment spa laundry and dry cleaners. Garment spa laundry and dry cleaners is located at number 2 constitution road that is, off amadu Bello way.
 * Kagoro mountain is the tallest mountain in the middlebelt.
 * Kaduna Central market: provisions, furnitures, electronics, generators. The market can be accessed from different angles through zaria that is the North Kawo sides. you can get to the market from the south through yakuwa expressway I'm from this house you coming from command junction and from the East coming from bypass that is to the mother bypass that links to air Force base
 * NNPC Quarters, at sabo opposite u/borrow by the roadside leading to refinery junction underneath wall is the part to village.
 * Garment spa laundry and dry cleaners. Garment spa laundry and dry cleaners is located at number 2 constitution road that is, off amadu Bello way.
 * Kagoro mountain is the tallest mountain in the middlebelt.

Buy

 * Pottery is highly prized from Kaduna, especially from the Nok culture.
 * Fruits, you can buy most of your fruit around stadium round about. There fruits are cheap and affordable

Drink
Bars and restaurants that serve alcoholic drinks tend to be in the city's southern part. In the north, some hotels do not serve alcohol.

Sleep
Not all hotels have bars that serve alcoholic drinks. So if that is important, check first. Hotels in the south of the city are more likely to have bars.

Go next

 * Katsina
 * Zamfara
 * Bauchi
 * Kano
 * Jos
 * Niger