Kano govt to launch support for 250 cooperative groups

As part of its empowerment agenda, the government of Kano state has pledged to activate and support 250 cooperative organisations across the state.

This was reported to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Kano by Alhaji Jamilu Abbas-Kiru, the governor’s new Special Adviser on Cooperative Groups.

He stated, “Our dear Kano State will benefit greatly from Governor Abba Yusuf’s comprehensive socioeconomic development plan.”

The state’s economy, industrialization, energy, and security, and even its efforts to combat climate change, all have his full support.

Healthcare, education, rural revitalization, and water infrastructure are all priorities for the new administration.

The assistant said that all around the state, cooperative societies would be chosen, given training, and given authority in the areas of agriculture, commerce, handicrafts, craftsmen, and transportation.

The digitalization of global economic activity, he argues, is in sync with the empowerment plan.

Most of us live in the country, and we don’t have enough people who understand the advantages of cooperativism to make it work there. Collective groups consisting of these people are unusual.

“They are also deficient in modern Information Communication Technology (ICT) and how it is driving socio-economic activities,” Abbas-Kiru, who is also the National President of the Market and Traders Association of Nigeria (MATAN), stated.

So, he let it slip that the government will assist in the formation of these cooperative groups, giving members access to resources like intervention funds and connecting them with financial and banking institutions.