ABIA STATE GOVT TO REVITALIZE 40 FACTORIES
REPORTER: PEACE AGBO
Abia State Government is to revive forty moribund industries across the state to create job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths in the area.
The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Prince Okey Kanu announced this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of this week’s Executive Council meeting.
Prince Kanu held the briefing alongside the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ngozi Okoronkwo and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Trade and Commerce, Chief Nwaka Inem.
According to Prince Kanu, the state government is considering fund supports and equity investment in those ailing industries to enable them to bounce back for the economic growth of the state.
Prince Kanu stressed government’s commitment to the recovery of public lands and assets converted to private use in Aba and other parts of the state.
The Commissioner also announced that the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria had granted approval to the state Ministry of Health to commence Nursing and Midwifery programme that would produce more nurses in the state.
He applauded the high level of transparency exhibited in the result of the just concluded nursing examination by the ministry.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ngozi Okoronkwo, further explained that the approval by the National Nursing Council would offer the state more opportunities to admit and train over one thousand and two hundred nurses annually, increase manpower in the health sector.
She said efforts would be made to get necessary legislative backings to convert the programme to Abia State College of Nursing and Midwifery.
Dr. Okoronkwo announced that United States Centre for Disease Control C.D.C, had made Abia State the fifth recipients of the pilot programme that deals with HIV and AIDS and support in control of some other diseases in the state.
For his part, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Trade, Commerce and Industry, Chief Nwaka Inem, said that the Vision of the present administration was to return the State to the glorious era of industrialization, which Abia is known for and encourage the birth of new ones through favorable business policies.
Chief Inem, who expressed deep concern of the state government about on streets trading in major cities, especially Aba the economic capital of the state, advised the affected traders and landlords where the trend is prevalent to heed to the government directives.
EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU
