Katsina State Governor Dikko Umaru Radda says the state’s internally generated revenue has increased from approximately ₦600 million monthly in 2023 to more than ₦3 billion in 2026. He disclosed the figures on October 8 during the launch of the World Bank’s Nigeria Development Update in Abuja, where discussions focused on how increased revenues are reshaping state priorities. Radda also outlined his administration’s reported investments in healthcare, education, agriculture and debt reduction, linking its spending capacity to changes in federal allocations following national economic reforms.
Katsina State Governor Dikko Umaru Radda has reported a substantial increase in the state’s internally generated revenue, saying monthly collections have risen from about ₦600 million in 2023 to more than ₦3 billion in 2026. He disclosed the figures on Thursday, October 8, while participating as a panelist at the launch of the World Bank’s Nigeria Development Update at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja. The event’s theme, “Beyond the Federal Purse: How Higher Revenues Reshaped State Priorities,” focused on the relationship between public revenue and state-level spending decisions. Radda presented Katsina’s revenue trajectory alongside reported investments in public services, agriculture and financial management. The figures were claims made by the governor; the announcement did not provide audited collection tables, annual totals or a breakdown of the revenue sources responsible for the increase.
Radda said improved resources from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, or FAAC, following President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic reforms had helped his administration finance interventions in critical sectors. He described the government’s approach as a deployment of available resources toward development priorities. The reported increase in internally generated revenue is distinct from federal allocations, however, and the governor’s remarks did not quantify how much of the state’s spending was financed by each source. Assessing the fiscal impact would require comparing internally generated revenue, statutory allocations, other receipts, recurrent expenditure, capital spending and outstanding liabilities over the same periods. The announcement offered the administration’s account of progress, rather than a consolidated fiscal statement containing those comparisons.
In healthcare, Radda said the state had reconstructed and equipped more than 270 primary healthcare centres, established an ambulance service system with 15 advanced ambulances, upgraded six comprehensive health centres to general hospitals and established an advanced dialysis centre as well as an imaging and cancer centre. He also reported that more than 2,000 healthcare professionals had been recruited. These measures were presented as part of the administration’s effort to expand health infrastructure and service capacity. The announcement did not include facility-by-facility completion records, service utilisation data, staffing distribution, operating costs or patient outcome indicators. Those details would help establish how far the reported investments have translated into improved access and continuity of care across the state’s communities.
Education and agriculture were also central to the governor’s account. Radda said more than 170 new schools had been built, over 500 renovated, three model schools established, more than 10,000 teachers recruited and over 25,000 teachers trained. In agriculture, he described Katsina’s mechanisation programme as the largest undertaken by a Nigerian subnational government, citing more than 400 modern tractors and thousands of mechanised equipment items. He also reported that more than 1,000 youths had been trained and funded in agribusiness, over 60,000 tonnes of fertiliser were distributed annually, and more than 5,000 irrigation equipment items had been distributed to farmers. The source announcement did not supply comparative state-level data to independently establish the national ranking of the mechanisation programme or quantify the resulting changes in agricultural output and farm incomes.
On financial management and social indicators, Radda said Katsina’s domestic debt had declined from ₦62 billion in 2022 to ₦14 billion in 2025. He also reported a seven-percentage-point reduction in the state’s malnutrition rate, a decrease in the number of out-of-school children from more than 500,000 to about 200,000, and full implementation of local government financial autonomy. These claims suggest the administration is presenting revenue mobilisation and fiscal changes as part of a wider governance programme, but the announcement did not specify the measurement periods or methodologies for the social indicators. The event was attended by senior federal officials and representatives of economic institutions, including the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. The governor’s October 8 presentation established the administration’s reported figures and policy claims; detailed fiscal and outcome data would be needed to independently assess their scale and durability.