Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has trained over 600 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) through the Cottage Industries and Street Hawkers Directorate to enable them to access bank loans.
In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Abba Anwar on Wednesday, the Director-General of the Directorate, Alhaji Uba Danzainab disclosed this at an event in Kano to showcase the feat which he stated was achieved within eleven months of its institution.
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Danzainab stated the Directorate partnered with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) Nigeria Incentive-Based Danger Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Micro Finance Bank and Development Finance Office of CBN to consolidate the idea of Business Clinic.
For street hawkers, the DG hinted that the Enterprise Clinic guided over 2500 hawkers and MSMEs within the Federal Authorities/CBN Survival Fund application.
“The business clinic has so far registered over 25,000 active MSMEs within the state by which over 4,000 have been counselled and identified by the consultant of the clinic free of charge.”
