Hajiya Aisha Jafar, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Social Intervention programmes, disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Kano on Saturday.
Jafar, who is also
the Focal person on Federal Government social intervention programmes in the
state, said the screening was done in seven designated health centres. According to her, the screeninguy was aimed
at ascertaining the health status of the prospective cooks. “In Kano state we
require over 13,000 cooks for the implementation of this important programme
but so far over 11, 000 cooks have been screened.
“Each cook will not
cook for over 150 pupils because they are expected to cook good meal for the
pupils. “The programme will soon
commence in Kano state as all the necessary arrangements have almost been
completed,” she said. On N-power programme, Jafar said that 91,734 unemployed
youths have registered under the second phase of the programme in the state as
at July.
She advised all
those who applied for the programme to attend the physical screening exercise
expected to be conducted soon. She also
commended the Federal Government for introducing the N-power programme which is
one of four schemes under the social intervention programmes. She said that the
intervention programmes had checked social vices among the teeming unemployed
youth in the state and the country at large.
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