The Kano State Government has commenced refresher training of over 72 secondary schools teachers on modern fish farming to ensure step down training to students across the state.
The State Commissioner of Education, Ali Makoda who declared the training open on Tuesday, said that the move is part of the government’s effort to make students self-reliant.
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Makoda explained that the program was designed to be a trainer refresher course where the participants who also teach fisheries in schools would eventually embark on step down training to students across the state.
According to the Commissioner, the Kano Government is committed to providing entrepreneurship training to Secondary Schools Students across the state to make them self reliance after leaving schools.
” Vocational skills are the most effective means of improving students’ livelihoods, especially at this time. This government is initiating more ways to provide students with necessary skills to become self-reliant and sustain their family in future, ” Makoda said.
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He, therefore, urged the participants to fully utilize what they are going to learn for effective step down training for students in schools.
He said that Kano State, like China, has been blessed with a population that, if fully utilized, would help in boosting the state economy sector, stressing that….” this is what the present administration is doing to achieve economic stability through heavy educational investment”.
Makoda further commended Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for giving the ministry of education the opportunity to deliver its mandates effectively.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Alhaji Bashir Baffa Muhammed who outlined the overview of the training, explained that the government of Alhaji had done all that is needed to enhance the quality of education in the state.
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Earlier, the Director Kano Educational Resource Department, Hajiya Rabi Inuwa Hussain explained the purpose of establishing the center and how it would benefit students across the state.
During the program, the Commissioner was conducted round to supervise the newly established Fish Ponds where the participants acquired practical knowledge
on modern fish farming.
