By Muhammad Salisu
Kano State government has approved the sum of N500, 000 million as counterpart fund for the implementation of a six year World Bank assisted project tagged: Agro Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL).
This was contained in a press statement signed by the State Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba on the outcome of the Executive Council Meeting.
The Commissioner said in the post Council briefing statement that, the project is aimed at increasing the adoption of climate resilience landscape management practices and enhance livelihood in targeted arid and semi-arid watersheds in northern Nigeria.
He added that, "The project is being at the federal ministry of environment and the state ministry of environment at the states level to consolidate the achievements recorded under the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project in Kano".
However, Mr Garba announced that, the council has also approved MoU between the state government and Medina Academy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the physical teacher training of 5, 000 teachers at Madina, students’ courses and establishment of virtual classes in which Kano state government would be responsible for providing return air tickets, visas, training allowance to the first batch of 50 teachers that will attend the intensive training in Madina before Ramadan.
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