Kano govt. trains 150 youths in automobile engineering

The Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has said that the state government has spent over N200 million to train 150 youths in automobile engineering at the PAN Learning Centre, Kaduna, as part of efforts to reduce unemployment and youth restiveness in the state.

The training programme will last for one year after which the trainees will be provided with starter packs that will enable them to become self reliant.

Among the beneficiaries are 50 female indigenes of Kano State who are undergoing the training as auto mechanics and painters, among other skills.

Speaking through his Commissioner for Information, Malam Garba Mohammed, in Kaduna on Wednesday, when he visited the trainees to assess their performance, Ganduje said the initiative was to reduce the level of unemployment in the state and to provide a skilled manpower in modern mechanics.

He said that an earlier batch of 50 trainees who had graduated from the training had been provided with working tools and they are gainfully selfemployed as mechanics, panel beaters and welders in the state.

In his remarks, the Director General of the PAN Training Centre, Elizabeth Emordi, commended the Kano State Government for the initiative and urged other states to emulate such venture.

She commended the trainees for their dedication to studies, saying that the institute would do its best to ensure that the trainees got the best from the institute.