Kano conducts business clinic, supports 16,000 SMEs

Kano state government has so far enlisted about 16, 000 beneficiaries under its Business Clinic programme, the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has announced.

Solacebase reports that the clinic involves among other things training on basic registration formalities, tax advisories, loans and free bank account opening. It is coordinated by the office of the Director-General, Cottage Industries and Street hawking.

This was contained in a statement issued by Director-General, Media and Public Relations, Kano Government House, Ameen K. Yassar on Thursday.

Dr Ganduje, who announced this while receiving the Post-master General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of NIPOST, Dr Ismail Adebayo Adewusi, in Kano, stated that the capacity building initiative targeted street hawkers, traders and owners of small and medium scale businesses, ‘’said the statement.

“The aim is to ensure the sustainability of the small business and to ensure their gradual transformation into viable economic endeavours”, the governor said in the statement.

‘’The governor said Kano has many emerging business endeavours and the state government is willing to work the organizations and the organized private sector to revamp the state’s economy.’’

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According to the statement, he expressed appreciation to the management NIPOST for indicating interest to adopting some monuments in Kano, for use on commemorative stamps, assuring that his administration would give the necessary cooperation to the agency to implement the concept.

The statement said, the Post-master General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of NIPOST, Dr Ismail Adebayo Adewusi, told the governor that the agency was unbundling into two companies and had decided to make Kano the hub of its e-commerce, saying the state had impressive business opportunities.

Dr Adewusi hoped the state government would give his agency logistic and other support to enable it to serve the people better.