The Kano State Government has planned to reopen five other entrepreneurship institutes previously closed by the former administration, with a target to enroll 1,400 new trainees. The institutions to be reopened are the Poultry Institute, Tukui, Makoda; the Reformatory Institute, Kiru; the Artisan Fisheries Institute, Magaga, Kabo; the Irrigation Institute, Gwarzo; and the Journalism Institute in Kano.
The State Statistician-General and member of the steering committee reposing the state’s 26 entrepreneurship centers, Dr. Aliyu Isa, made the discovery during a stakeholders’ workshop on employment creation in Kaduna. He also stated that the institutes were established under the previous administration of Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso but were shut down and left idle for eight years by the new government of Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Dr. Isa clarified that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s action to reactivate the centres is one of the strategies of his administration’s human capital development as an economic empowerment and poverty alleviation strategy.
“All preparations for the opening of these institutes have been finalized,” said Dr. Isa. “Arrangements for feeding, training materials, and infrastructural needs have been finalized to ensure smooth operations from day one.”
He added that the Gwarzo Irrigation Institute and the Journalism Institute in Kano will take on 200 students each for intensive training in irrigation techniques and journalism, respectively. The bigger picture, he said, is to give participants valuable skills, enhance local economies, and contribute significantly to the state’s socio-economic development.
