Niger Govt moves to empower youths, women

Niger State Government has revealed that it shall through discovered windows of opportunities from partnership with Sakarya Province, Turkey, empower youths and women in the state.

According to report, the government has also stated that it shall facilitate clean as well a healthy environment and improve the internally generated revenue of the state among others.

This development is emerging from deliberations  between Governor Abubakar Sani Bello and some Sakarya Province officials as well as Turkish businessmen, when he led the state delegation to the Province as a follow up of their earlier meeting in Abuja on strengthening bilateral trade.

According to a statement signed by Mary Noel-Berje, the chief press secretary to the Governor of Niger State, various meetings held focused on, Health, Agriculture, Livestock, Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, ICT and Hospitality.

The delegation visited some facilities around Sakarya Province, for possible replication in the state.

The facilities include Basak Tractor factory, Carpet weaving facility, Green House Centre of Excellence, Tunc Meat and Livestock facility, Buffalo breeding facility, Sakarya Integrated Waste Management (waste to wealth)facility and Sarila Hazelnut Processing plant.

Consequently, an agreement on principle was reached between the state government and the Sakarya Province on the continuation of bilateral talks and joint cooperation.

While Governor Sani Bello signed on behalf of the Niger State Government, Ekrem Yu’ce the Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor, signed for Sakarya Province.

Speaking to journalists, the Governor explained why they were in Turkey.

According to him, “We are trying to establish a model especially in the area of Agriculture, which is what we do mainly in Niger state and we have a lot to learn from Turkey and we have seen a lot since we arrived here, in areas of Agriculture, Livestock and so on.

“We have seen how Mechanization and Engineering work. So we have basically sign to see that Agricultural practice in Niger state can change from subsistence to commercial Agriculture so that we can provide for 200 million Nigerians”.

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