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  • Updated: August 04, 2022

Kano Approves Over ₦377 Million Joint Agricultural Training School Fund

Kano Approves Over ₦377 Million Joint Agricultural Trainin

Kano Executive Council has approved   ₦377, 312, 386.70 million as 2017 to 2020 outstanding counterpart funds for the Leventis Foundation and Kano State Agricultural Training School, Panda.
 
The state commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba revealed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the weekly meeting held at the council Chamber, Government House, Kano.

According to him in a statement on Thursday, the school, which was established in 1988, has so far trained and graduated over 2,700 youth in crops, livestock and fisheries value chains across the state.

The commissioner pointed out that despite the non-receipt of the fund, the programmes and activities of the school are still ongoing including staff salaries and operation standards.

He also announced that the council has approved the upward review of operative rates in the construction of a two-coat surface-dressed road network at NNDC Quarters, Sharada, awarded at the cost of  ₦48, 577, 200.00 million, which was revised to the tune of  ₦105, 629, 494.26 million.

The council, he said, also received a progress report for the month of May, this year on the construction of Muhammadu Buhari Interchange at NNPC mega Station Rotary Intersection, Hotoro, along Maiduguri Road in the metropolis.
 
"The project, which has reached 70 per cent completion stage, was awarded at the cost of N8, 980, 303, 460.63 billion and the sum of N6, 013, 954, 461.84 billion has so far been paid to the contractor handling the project".

"The council has also approved the implementation of the 2022 budget for the state Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (KSCHCMA), totalling the sum of N6, 891, 011, 898.85 billion," he said.

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