Kaduna

Kaduna is the capital of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Its population was just under two million in 2009.¹. Three notable buildings are the 11-storey Hamdala Hotel and two soccer venues: the Ranchers Bee Stadium and the Ahmadou Bello Stadium. The latter is named after a sultan assassinated in Kaduna in 1966. It is a multi-ethnic part of Nigeria²

External References

Hamdala Hotel site

Historical Maps

Footnotes

(1) world-gazetteer.com, accessed 12/12/2009
(2) Nigeria map 2 in Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue Languages of the World, 15th ed. (SIL International, 2005).