The Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki has called on Governors from the Northwest zone to exploit Kano outreach learning center of the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) for the training teeming unemployed youths to address the security challenges bedeviling the region and the country.
Sen. Saraki made the call during the inauguration of the Kano State Outreach Learning Centre of the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) in Dawakin Kudu local government area of the state.
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She said there was need for the state governors to make the best use of the centre to give youths the opportunity to acquire skills from the skills acquisition programmes to be offered at the centre.
“Gone are the days when people should rely on government to provide them with jobs.
She noted that the centre when fully utilised would give the youth the opportunity to become employers of labour instead of being job seekers pointing out that the center would serve all the states in the Northwest geopolitical zone.
Saraki said that the aim of establishing the centre was to improve the transport sector of the country, adding that most developed nations invested heavily in their transport sectors.
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She said that the centre would provide the relevant skills and knowledge needed in the transport sector.
“I wish to call on state governments to support the youth in their respective states to enrol at the centre, and after graduating, to assist them with the facilities needed to set up their businesses,” she explained..
She noted that the Federal Government had committed huge resources towards the revitalisation and modernisation of railways across the country.
Earlier in his remark, the Kano state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje represented by his deputy, Dr Nasiru Gawuna called on the Federal Government to hasten the Kano-Kaduna-Lagos rail line in order boost economic growth and development of the State.
He commenced the Federal Government for establishing the NITT outreach learning centre in Kano State.
He urged governors from the zone to sponsor unemployed youths to enable them acquire skills for self-reliance.
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The NITT Director-General, Alhaji Bayero Farah said that the centre and others across the country had been equipped with modern state-of-the-art facilities for both practical and theoretical training in all modes of transportation.
He said that the project was in fulfilment of the Federal Government’s desire to achieve a robust economy in the country.
