The Kano State Government has announced the reopening of 26 Entrepreneurship Institutes closed by the administration of the immediate past governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje.

The Kano State Commissioner for Works and Housing, Marwan Ahmad, who made the announcement at a press conference in Kano on Thursday, July 27, 2023, said the institutes were established by Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s administration with the mandate to equip youths and women in different skills.

He said: “Governor Abba Kabir-Yusuf has direct that all the 26 Entrepreneurship Institutes established by Sen. Kwankwaso’s Administration which were abandoned by the previous administration, are hereby reopened.

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“The institute include Journalism, Horticulture, Poultry, Driving, Reformatory, Hospitality and Tourism, Animal Husbandry, Sports, Informatics, Corporate Security, among others.”

According to him, the institutes will be optimally put to use to address the menace of drug addictions and thuggery posing serious concern to residents of the state.

He said the governor had also ordered contractors handling 5-kilometre road projects initiated by the Kwankwaso’s administration across the 44 Local Government Areas of the state, to resume work at the sites.

Ahmad further stated that Kano State Government had equally resumed work at the abandoned Jakara River Project in Kano metropolis.

The commissioner restated the state government’s commitment to the provision of infrastructure to improve the lives of the people, saying: “The provision of infrastructure would stimulate the state’s socio-economic activities and revenue base as well as the overall development of communities.”

The Star