Meet Hajia Zulaiha Dikko Umaru Radda the New First Lady of Katsina State
Hajiya Zulaihat Dikko is the wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship elect in Katsina State, Dikko Umaru Radda.
She has supported her husband through thick and thin. She is a woman of positive influence and meaning.
It is apparent that Zulaihat will take dividends of democracy to the door-step of the citizenry when she assumes duty as the first lady of Katsina State.
For many years she has advocated for quality education for all citizens, girl-child education and youth and women empowerment.
Hajiya Zulaihat Dikko is a born philanthropists that despite her affluence she is more focused on the grassroots to identify with less-privileged and help them to grow.
For many years this has been a trade has earned Hajiya Zulaihat the appellation “patron of orphans”.
She achieved through a series of empowerment initiatives powered by her foundation.
Who is Zulaihat Dikko Radda?
Born in Malali Low Coast, Kaduna State to the family of Late Alhaji Abdullahi Dan-Bala Matazu (Matawallen Matazu), Zulaihat Dikko Umaru Radda had her primary education at Nurudden Islamic school, Malali Kaduna, where she earned her Primary school leaving Certificate 1994 and had her secondary education at Government Girls’ Secondary School Kabomo, Bakori local government, 2000.
She earned a Diploma in Law at Aminu Kano College of Islamic and Legal Studies, Kano in 2005 and an Advance diploma in English/education from the same institution in 2007.
She later moved to Bayero university, Kano, where she earned an Advance diploma in Public Administration 2010 and later earned a bachelor degree in Political Science in the same university in 2014. Zulaihat holds a Master’s degree in public administration (University of Abuja), where she graduated in 2017. In summary, Hajiya Zulaihat is an administrator-cum-political scientist.
Philanthropist par Excellence
Through her foundation, Zulaihat Dikko Radda Foundation, she has changed the lives of many young men and women, especially the orphans. To her, orphans must be picked and raised on property as other children.
Hajiya Zulaihat is a philanthropist par excellence. You are not wrong if you describe Zulaihat Dikko Radda as a humanitarian (a woman concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare) philanthropist, a feat she has achieved through her foundation: Zulaihat Dikko Radda Foundation.
As a philosopher said that human beings are by not defined by what they are, but what they do; meaning their commitment to their family, relatives, and less privileged, Hajiya Zulaihat has charted a new course and she will not rest until she changes the destiny of her society for the better, empower youth and woman and gives orphans a sense of belonging.
Courtesy of the foundation, pilgrims from Katsina State get proper training before embarking on the spiritual journey. Every year the foundation produces books which guide pilgrims on performing Hajj.
By any measure Hajiya Zulaihat Dikko Radda is the ideal model for wives of politicians in this country for the development of the Nigeria societies.
Mal Abdul Danja
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