Kano spends N200m to train 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 its 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 become selfreliant and contribute their quota to the society. Among the beneficiaries are 50 female indigenes of Kano State that are undergoing training as auto mechanics and painters, among other skills.

Speaking through his Commissioner for Information, Malam Garba Mohammed, when he visited the trainees in Kaduna 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 were gainfully selfemployed as mechanics, panel beaters and welders in the state.

“When this administration took over in 2015, we realised that we had quite a number of youths who were not employed. Even those who had gone through normal education were not employed. We had a number of graduates, even those with higher qualification who were unemployed.”

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