By Yusuf A. Yusuf Giginyu
Kano State Government will provide modern equipment to its media organizations.
The state Commissioner of Information, Comrade Baba Halilu Dantiye, who stated this while featuring in a Radio Kano Current Affairs Programme, KAN DAKI, also said the training and retraining of staff would be pursued with vigour.
The Commissioner stated that the training would involve all journalists working in both government and private-owned media in the state.
Baba Halilu Dantiye, added that “if possible, we would invite the trainers to Kano by doing it will increase the number of people who would benefit.”
The Commissioner also spoke on the administration’s achievements especially in the area of health, saying that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has achieved a lot through the provision of adequate drugs and equipment to hospitals, as well as recruiting more health personnel.
The former President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors also revealed that the government will reshape the Kwankwasiya Medical Outreach programme to enable people from any location to assess medical treatment.
Kano State government, the Commissioner maintained, has achieved a lot in the area of agriculture by providing fertilizer at subsidized prices to farmers, especially in this rainy season.
The government of Abba Kabir Yusuf, he continued, has prioritized improvement in the state’s education system where there are plans on the ground to revive some schools that were closed down by the previous administration, such as driving school and developmental journalism among others.
During the programme anchored by Lurwanu Idris Malikawa Garu and Maryam Tata, the Commissioner also spoke on the achievementsof the administration in the area of infrastructure, citing the completion, and recent commissioning of the five kilometer-road in Gezawa and Gwarzo local government areas.
The project, according to Dantiye, was initiated by the administration of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
The others, he added, were at varying degrees of accomplishment.
On palliatives to assuage the current economic challenges, the Commissioner confirmed that administration was currently disbursing N50,000 each to the less privileged and women as part of its empowerment programme.
