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Kano State Government has fashioned out an Information and Communication Technology policy and is collaborating with foreign experts to actualize its plans on ICT.
The State Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau who disclosed this while receiving the Minister of Science and Technology in his office disclosed that government is working with Malaysian ICT Professionals toward setting up the proposed ICT Park in the state capital. Towards this end, he said government would use the long-abandoned Ado Bayero House to accommodate the gigantic project, explaining that government has recently approved about N270million for the completion and furnishing of the building to enable the Park start operations early next year. Malam Shekarau also told the Minister that efforts are on to renovate the pioneer Science Secondary Schools in the state as part of the government’s concern to enhance scientific development. The Governor assured that his administration would look into the possibility of setting up a Science and Technology Directorate, maintaining that government would contact the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to identify areas that are not catered for by existing state agencies. Earlier, the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs. Grace Ekphiwhre requested the state government to set up a Directorate or a Ministry of Science and Technology to ease collaboration with her Ministry in the areas of research and networking with international bodies that are into research and development.
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