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JOPIS PROFILE

JOPIS: Stands for Job Placement Information Services

• Job Placement Information Services (JOPIS) is a scheme by CITAD to assist youth looking for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities by bringing information about job/entrepreneurship opportunities to them.

Functions of the JOPIS UNIT

• Getting job opportunities on newspapers and Libraries 
• Collaborating with reliable sites advertising job opportunities
• Creating library and reference on the job opportunities so as easily refer to it when the need arises.
• Focusing on the jobs that people may like
• Advertising  interview clue techniques
• Sensitization and training workshops
• Job Placement Officer will be responsibility for providing advice, council and information to prospective applicants
• Staff that come across with any job opportunity should alert the JOPIS unit in order to advertise it

All the job vacancies, Employment and entrepreneurship opportunities are posting timely on friend of CITAD, CITAD ALMUNI, Peace now facebook pages and CITAD main website.

SCHOOLS BENEFITED FROM JOPIS

• Number of Senior Secondary Schools in Kano, Jigawa and Bauchi State
• Final Year Students of the Peace Clubs in BUK, FUD, ATBU, Alqalam University, Sa’adatu Rimi Collage of Education and FCE Kano

JOPIS BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE GOTTEN GRANT

JOPIS BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE GOTTEN EMPLOYMENT

Job Placement Information Services (JOPIS) is a scheme by CITAD to assist youth looking for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities by bringing information about job opportunities to them. All the job vacancies and Employment opportunities are posting twice a week on “friends of CITAD”, “CITAD ALMUNI”, “Peace now” facebook pages and CITAD main website. It also organizes generic employability training programmes for young people and students as well specific programmes to equip them to apply for specific entrepreneurship opportunities.

As part of activities to mark the International Women’s Day, Centre for Information Technology (CITAD), in partnership with Jobberman, Nigeria largest online platform on Wednesday in Kano, trained two hundred young women on Employability Skills.

The Program Implementation Officer, Precious Imuwahen Ajoonu, (Jobberman) said the platform intends to reach out to 5 million young people particularly job seekers so as to train them on Employability Skills and match them with dignified jobs in the next five years.

She said, the choice to train women in kano and by extension the North is connected to the fact that people in the region are under-served.

According to her, the training which focuses on how to write a CV, Cover letters, how to prepare for interviews as well as how to negotiate for salaries as it has been observed that many women are ready to accept whatever is been offered them without considering what value they are bringing to the table, would help women project themselves in a more standard way.

She said, women, who are the backbone of every society needs to be given more chances to occupy prominent positions in the boardrooms so as to bring on board, special skills in their areas of specialization for the growth of the work-force.

Ajoonu further stated that the training will continue in other selected states in the region so as to equip more women with virtually everything needed to acquire their desired jobs.

She charged the participants to pursue their dreams and believe in themselves just as records have shown women whom have excelled greatly in different fields of life just like their male counterparts.

Speaking on the occasion, the program officer, Gender and Internet Advocacy CITAD, Maryam Ado Haruna, stated that the Centre has empowered women in the past on various skills and acquisition programs in a bid to cover up the huge gab between the men and women in the Northern part of the country when it comes to earning a living and productivity.

She said the collaboration is hoped to make more impacts as the both CITAD and Jobberman share similar objectives which would enable them reach out to more women in the society and empower them with needed skills to survive in any field of work they find themselves.

Furthermore, Maryam stated that writing of CV itself is a business one can build a career on and that with such a training, one can begin to write CVs for people to earn a living.

IWD: 200 Women Trained on Employability Skills in Kano

In an effort to celebrate the International Women’s Day, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in Collaboration with the Jobberman Nigeria organised “Employability Training for 200 Women in Northern Nigeria.” The essence of the training was to empower 200 women in the northern part of Nigeria and to help participants become job-ready through intensive pre-employment training they needed to thrive in any workplace.  The one-day school which held on 11^th March 2020 at Grand Central Hotel, Kano offered intensive training on various topics regarding employability.

In her introduction, the Program Implementation Officer of Jobberman, Precious Imuwahen Ajoonu said the platform intends to reach out to 5 million young people particularly job seekers so as to train them on Employability Skills and match them with dignified jobs in the next five years. She said, the choice to train women in kano and by extension the North is connected to the fact that people in the region are under-served.She added that women are the backbone of every society and therefore needs to be given more chances to occupy prominent positions in the boardrooms so as to bring on board, special skills in their areas of specialization for the growth of the workforce. Ajoonu further stated the training will continue in other selected in the region so as to equip more women with virtually everything needed to acquire their desired jobs.

In her welcoming address, the Programme Officer Gender and Internet Advocacy, Maryam Ado Haruna explained that stated that the Centre has empowered women in the past on various skills and acquisition programs in a bid to cover up the huge gab between the men and women in the northern part of the country when it comes to earning a living.

She added that the collaboration is hoped to make more impacts as the both CITAD and Jobberman share similar objectives which would enable them reach out to more women in the society and empower them with needed skills to survive in any field of work they find themselves.

Furthermore, Maryam stated that writing of CV itself is a business one can build a career on and that with such a training, one can begin to write CVs for people to earn a living.

The sessions covered during the training included:

1. Youth Engagement Overview
2. CV writing
3. Cover letter
4. Job interview
5. How to identify scams
6. Jobberman signup

Many participants expressed their appreciation and satisfaction with the training. They expressed that the training has really given them insights on professional CV writing, cover letters and preparations interviews as well as how they can easily identify scam adverts to prevent themselves from falling prey to online fraud. The added that the skills they have learnt are especially important to them because these are skills that are not taught in schools.

In the closing remarks, the CITAD Programme Coordinator, Malam Isah Garba thanked Jobberman for the training the women and partnering with CITAD. He sensitized and urged all the participants to share what they’ve learned with others who did not attend the training and tell them more about the website. He further stated that this is the beginning of a milestone and we hope in solving our goal together.

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The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) through it’s Job Placement and Information Services (JOPIS) organized a one day workshop on Job Interview Techniques, Employment and Entrepreneurship Support Opportunities to Federal University Dutse (FUD) and Jigawa State Polytechnic graduating students. JOPIS is a department initiated by the organization to help teeming unemployed youths with skills of becoming self reliant. In his welcome remarks, the coordinator of the Center in Duste, Ali Sabo welcomed the participants to the workshop and urged them to listen to the presenters with interest and also pass what they learn to others who could not attend the workshop.
In his introduction, the coordinator of the unit Sagir Ado Abubakar stated activities of the unit saying that the main objective of the unit is to gather and sensitize the job seeking youths on the entrepreneurship opportunities as well as properly train them on how to be innovative and develop business plans so that they can benefit from loans and grants opportunities meant for startup businesses. He urged the students to start thinking on how to explore new ideas and be more creative. Hamza Ibrahim who took the participants on the importance of developing a good CV and Interview techniques while advising them to be truthful and state only what they can be able to do and depend in their resumes.
Three presentations were made at the workshop, namely: JOPIS Unit of CITAD and its activities by Sagir Ado of Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), Interview Techniques/CV Development: How to Excel and Sale Yourself during interview by Hamza Ibrahim Chinade of the same center, Job Scams and Entrepreneurship Opportunities also by Sagir Ado. All the papers presented dealt extensively with topical issues, and they revolved around pressing areas bedeviling the teeming unemployed graduates and at the same time exposed the participants to think beyond eyeing white color jobs.
The programme ended with vote of thanks by Usman Aliyu, President of Students for Peace, Federal University Duste, he thanked the presenters and the Center for organizing the educating workshop and at the same time advised the participants to start applying what the learned at the workshop immediately and wished everyone a successful journey back to their destinations.

Job Placement and Information Service (JOPIS) of the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) is a unit that scouts for job and entrepreneurial grants opportunities and disseminate for the benefit of especially the teeming job-seeking youths in the society. The unit has today organized a workshop for the graduating students of Bayero University Kano, Kano state University of Science and Technology (KUST) Wudil, Northwest University Kano, Federal College of Education Kano as well as Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, the participating students were selected from Peace Clubs in their various institutions.

In his welcome remarks, coordinator of the unit Sagiru Ado Abubakar noted that it is one of the objectives of JOPIS to gather and sensitize the job-seeking youths on the entrepreneurship support opportunities as well as properly train them on how to succeed at job interviews, “you may have the qualification but lack the basic knowhow to succeed at interviews, the public sector cannot offer everyone a slot for meal ticket, as such some of us have to establish their own businesses and eventually employ others too, that is why we have a session on grants opportunities in this workshop to guide you on how to initiate business ideas and access startup grants, Sagiru added.

Three sessions were facilitated during the workshop, namely: Interview Techniques: How Best to Succeed at Interviews by Adamu Muhammad of Integrated Corporate Services Kano Regional Office, Enterpreneurship Support Opportunities by Sufyan Lawal Kabo of Digital Film Base Kano and CV Development by Sagiru Ado Abubakar of CITAD. The three sessions have extensively treated essential concepts that are capable of adding value on the graduating students. Commenting, a medical student of BUK Khadija Aliyu Adam said before attending the workshop her perception was that medical students can hardly benefit from entrepreneurship support, but the workshop has completely changed her mindset, also commenting Ahmad Tijjani Zubair of Agricultural Economics and Extension (another BUK student) said the workshop really opened his eyes to start practicalizing the business ideas he has.

It could be recalled that JOPIS has organized a similar workshop on 19th January this year for interns and volunteers of the organization. A total number of sixty (60) students participated in the workshop from the five tertiary institutions, the workshop ended with a closing remark offered by Senior Programmes Officer Kabiru Saidu Dakata of the Center for Information technology and Development (CITAD).

The Job Placement and Information Service (JOPIS) unit of the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has organized a workshop for the students of Alqalam University and Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Katsina on how they can secure loans or grants from either governments initiatives, Bank of Industry, foundations and wealthy individuals in order start their own businesses and become self reliant, the workshop also prepared the participants on how they can pass employment interviews alongside mastering the secrets of developing a winning Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Resume.

Giving his welcome remarks, Huzaifa Yakubu Musa of CITAD expressed optimism with the turnout of the participants and observed that the workshop is timely considering the present situation of unemployment and a growing number of graduates emerging from various institutions that he said government alone cannot accommodate as such engaging in entrepreneurial activities will be a way out as well as make the youths realize their potentials by initiating different businesses, he urged the participants to consider the workshop as a challenge and engage in various self reliant businesses.

Three presentations were made, the first being “Developing a Winning CV and Employment Interview Techniques” by Mr. Ahmadu Adamu, the regional manager of outsourcing company Integrated Corporate Services which is based in Kano, the second “Job Scams” facilitated by Sagiru Ado Abubakar, the coordinator, Job Placement and Information Service (JOPIS) and the third “Enterpreneurship Support Sources” by Hamza Ibrahim, a research assistant with CITAD. All the presentations treated various relevant concepts.

The participants have asked many questions and made comments and suggestions, some of them appreciated CITAD for organizing the workshop while others observed that the next time a workshop like that will be organized they want business proposal writing be included as many students have sound business ideas but to carefully develop a proposal for them is a problem. The workshop ended with a vote of thanks and a group picture of the facilitators and the participants.

 

After conducting Interview Techniques and Entrepreneurship Support Opportunities Workshop for graduating students of Bayero University Kano, Northwest University, Kano state Polytechnic, Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Federal University Dutse and Jigawa state Polytechnic, the Job Placement and Information Service (JOPIS) unit of the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has organized another similar workshop for the students of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) and Federal Polytechnic Bauchi.

The workshop which took place at the Bauchi office of CITAD exposes the participants into various skills that help job seekers succeed at employment interviews and entrepreneurship support opportunities in form of loans and grants for startup businesses in order for the youths to become self reliant. Earlier in his opening remarks, JOPIS Coordinator, Sagir Ado Abubakar urged the participants to feel free and ask questions where necessary as the workshop is meant to prepare towards becoming innovative entrepreneurs or succeed at employment interviews.

Facilitating a session on Interview Techniques and CV Development, Mr. Ahmadu Adamu, the regional manager of Integrated Corporate Services encouraged the participants to always take their time to develop a “Winning CV” that will sell them before their prospective employers and prepare well and adhere to ethics and skills of attending an employment interview emphasizing that it is a foundation for securing a job.

Some people use the unemployment scenario to dupe gullible and desperate youths in search of employment, said Sagiru Ado Abubakar who presented on “Job Scams”. Sagiru identified several tricks used by 419ers such as asking for payment for appointment, interviews, lacking concrete and verifiable address by the scammers, using fake identity on social networking sites, having no websites etc, he warned the participants to beware of dubious people who normally lure job seekers with fake claims.

The last session on “Enterpreneurship Support Opportunities” was facilitated by Hamza Ibrahim. The participants were presented with series of entrepreneurial support opportunities sources as well as procedures and requirements for applying. The facilitator explained in detail the thousands of untapped business ideas that can be utilized by the participants and get some grants or loans to startup their own businesses. The participants asked many questions regarding the qualification of a business to win grants or secure loans, and whether or not graduating students of Urban and Regional Planning can establish estate management service and can have a grant to startup etc. The questions and comments were clarified by the facilitator. Websites of grants and loan sources were given to the participants and many of them indicated interest in developing business ideas and applying for grants or loans in order to become self reliant.

The Job Placement and Information Service (JOPIS) unit of the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has on Thursday 25^th July, 2019 organized a one-day sensitization lecture on TEF-UNDP Youth Entrepreneurship Program. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) have launched the TEF – UNDP Youth Entrepreneurship Program to empower an additional 100,000 young African entrepreneurs over the next 10 years with seed capital, business management training and mentoring. The first phase of this partnership titled the “TEF-UNDP Sahel Youth Entrepreneurship Program” will be implemented this year (2019) and will empower 2,000 entrepreneurs from the following countries in the Sahel and Lake Chad region: Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria. The JOPIS Unit of the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) notices that, in Nigeria, more than 80% of the beneficiaries of the previous versions of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Program were from the southern part of the country. This was as a result of numerous reasons. One most of the youths in the northern part of the country are unaware of the existence of such programs. Secondly, those that have little awareness of such programs lack the capacity to develop winning proposals that help them to benefit from such programs. Thirdly, most those programs are ICT based that required internet services which number of them do not have access.

In his welcome remarks, Malam Hamza Ibrahim said that the lecture aimed to achieve the following objectives:

1. Sensitize the youth about the existence of the TEF-UNDP Entrepreneurship Program and its duration
2. Help them to develop winning proposals and
3. Assist them to apply

Three presentations were made during the program, Kamal Garba Alhassan made a presentation on problems of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Kano. In his presentation, Kamal said that a serious challenge that entrepreneurs face in Northern Nigeria is lack of sources of capital and even the lending institutions have make requirements that are difficult for a common entrepreneur to benefit. Abdul’aziz Yunusa Ya’u, a beneficiary of Fadama III Project tipped the participants on strategies that help them to write a winning business proposal for grants. While Sagiru Ado Abubakar who coordinates the Job Placement Information Service of the center practically demonstrated the application procedure and general guidelines for the pilot phase of the TEF-UNDP partnership program. He emphasized that applicant must to be an African entrepreneur residing in any of these listed countries in the Sahel and Lake Chad region namely: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroun, Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso. Also your business must not be more than 3years in existence and businesses at the idea/concept stage are also encouraged.

The program targeted National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), students and the general public. The participants have asked many questions and made comments and suggestions, some of them appreciated CITAD for organizing the workshop while others observed that the next time a workshop like that should be timely as the deadline for the TEF-UNDP Youth Entrepreneurship Program approaches.

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The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has on 3^rd August, 2017 organized a capacity building training for a group of women to enable them effectively participate in the YouWiN! Connect Enterprise Education business plan competition. YouWiN! Connect is a multimedia based relaunch of the YouWiN! Program of the Federal Ministry of Finance. It aims to support young entrepreneurs as they PLAN, START and GROW their businesses, by providing Enterprise Education as well as access to technical and consulting services. The program aims to promote entrepreneurship, job creation and wealth via enterprise education for young Nigerians. The capacity building training was organized under Job Placement Information Services (JOPIS) unit of CITAD which is a scheme by CITAD to assist youth looking for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities by bringing information about job opportunities to them. JOPIS unit noticed that women in the state do not know what is going on concerning federal government empowerment programs. Also, those aware of such programs lack the capacity to benefit from the programs.

The capacity building program held at CITAD’s training hall and was attended by over 40 participants from different part of the state. Among the participants were those that have their own existing businesses but lack the sources of capital to grow the businesses and employ more hands.  In his opening speech, Malam Sagiru Ado Abubakar, head of the JOPIS unit told the participant that Youwin program comprises two categories. Category one is for the entrepreneurial ventures which are typically newly emerged. The second category is for the applicants who already have registered businesses. He then encouraged the participants to extend what they learnt to others for wider coverage. Sagir added that, with this kind of program level of poverty and unemployment rates can be able to reduce in the state and the nation. He regretted that Kano State and other states in the north are far behind in comparison of our partners in the other part of the country in term of benefiting from federal government empowerment programs.

The program introduced the participants the importance of having accessible email address as it is prerequisite of the Youwin program. It also explained that applicants must have post-secondary school qualification, must be between the ages of 18 and 40, must be Nigerians and resident in Nigeria, applicants businesses must be domiciled in Nigeria, must not be an employee of the Nigerian Civil Service, must be willing to attend all trainings and mentoring exercises organized by the program and previous YouWiN awardees are not eligible to apply. Also, to apply, applicants must give their personal information, business information, business needs and upload means of identification and educational document.

Hajiya Dije Garba, Kano State Bureau of Statistics, Audu Bako Secretariat, Kano, made the closing remarks and vote of thanks at the end of the program. She described CITAD as progressive partner that always sources ways that help to uplift people in Kano and the entire region.

The JOPIS Unit of the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has on 2nd July, 2017 organized sensitization lecture on N-Power Program for graduates in Kano State. JOPIS stands for Job Placement Information Services. Is a scheme by CITAD to assist youth looking for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities by bringing information about job opportunities to them. The sensitization lecture was organized in order to soften some issues marred the 2016 N-Power application in Kano State. It could be recalled that both people and Kano State government expressed concern over the low number of youth selected to participate in the Federal Government’s N-Power program last year. People were complaining that despite the fact that Kano is the most populous state in the country, N-Power data shown that over 20,000 youth from Kano State applied for the program in 2016 but only 4, 966 were selected.
At the beginning of the sensitization lecture, Sagiru Ado Abubakar, Head of the JOPIS Unit said that N-Power is a Federal Government Program designed to tackle youth unemployment in the country. The N-Power Program involves massive deployment of 500,000 trained graduates who will assist to improve the inadequacies in the public services in education, health and civic education. The program was initiated by Federal Government considering current high level of unemployment, harnessing Nigeria’s young demography through appropriate skill development efforts to provide an opportunity to achieve inclusion and productivity within the country. In 2016, 200,000 graduates have been deployed to different governmental institutions for public services. The 2017 N-Power Program focuses on the remaining 300,000 vacant positions. While addressing the participants on the criteria for N-Power application, Sagir said that, Graduate Category- the N-Power Volunteer Corps is the post-tertiary engagement initiative for Nigerians between 18 and 35. It is a paid volunteering program of 2-year duration. The graduates must possess any post-tertiary qualification including an Ordinary National Diploma (OND), Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) and any Degree qualification as may be specified by the program. The successful applicants will undertake their primary tasks in identified public services within their proximate communities. Finally, he said that an N-Power volunteer Corps comprises 4 key areas, namely, N-Power Agro, N-Power Health, N-Power Teach and N-Power Tax.

Kamal Garba Alasan, Assistant Head of the JOPIS Unit, demonstrated to the participants the N-Power registration portal. During the demonstration, Kamal displayed the following as prerequisite for the N-Power registration. First Name as shown on the BVN record, Middle Name as Shown on the BVN record, Last Name as shown on the BVN record, Gender, Marital status, Email, Phone number, Date of birth, Nationality, State of Origin, Local government, Residential Address, State of residence, Local government of residence, Nationality, BVN, Bank Account Number, Bank name, and physical disability if any.
Other requirements were educational history of the applicants which included qualification, last institution attended, discipline, NYSC, and computer skill. Lastly, the participants were given chance to register N-Power Program free of charge at the center.

In its effort to promote entrepreneurship and create awareness on information and communication technology (ICT) among the citizens, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development on Thursday 16^th January, 2014 conducted one-day YouWin Sensitization lecture.  The lecture was organized as a result of the observation made by the Ministry of Women Affairs that a lot of the women in the state lack the technical skill to register with YouWin and develop good business plan. This resulted the massive failure of the women in the previous awards, as the award is solely an ICT based.  To overcome the challenge, the Honorable Commissioner Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr. Binta Tijjani Jibril requested to collaborate with CITAD and sensitize women populace in the state.

The sensitization lecture was conducted at K.E.R.D ETF Hall, Gandun Albasa and was attended by over 300 participants. Hajiya Aishatu Atiku Director Women Affairs made the welcome remark. In her remark, she stated that this is one-day workshop organized by the ministry to sensitize our sisters to benefit with the YouWin program. She then drew the attention of the audience to listen attentively and urged them to raise questions on anything they do not understand on the award.

In her speech, the honorable commissioner Ministry of Women Affairs and Social development Dr. Binta Tijjani said that, YouWin is not program of the state government. It is a program of the federal government initiated to promote entrepreneurship and reduce poverty in the country. In the YouWin program you can win up to 10 million naira. She then expressed her worry on the number of the women who benefited with the award in Kano State.  Saying that since the inception of the program, only 25 women from Kano State benefited from the award.  Moreover, the worrisome part of it some of the awardees were not indigene of the state due to the fact that some of our women do not have even email address talk less of operating the computer and developing good business plan. The honorable commissioner lastly informed the gathering that the administration of his Excellency Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso place more concern on the women. She cited example with the massive marriage of widows and different empowerments programs in the state.

Malam Jamilu one of the beneficiaries of the YouWin program shared his experience on the award. He urged the participants to follow the guidelines of the award and develop good business plan irrespective of the nature of their businesses. He then drew their attention when applying to be innovative, show the potentiality of the business to growth, identify the possibility of employing many staff in the business and design a realistic budget.

In his presentation, Malam Isyaku Garba who coordinated the program, explained that YouWin stands for Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria, and is an innovative business plan competition, by the federal government of Nigeria, aimed at job creation by encouraging and supporting aspiring entrepreneurial youth in Nigeria to develop and execute business ideas. He said that the first round of the competition was awarded in 2011 with 1200 successful businesses. While YouWiN Women was the second edition of the entrepreneurial scheme, which was designed for only female entrepreneurs aged 45 years or less. YouWiN 3 is the third edition and will feature men and women entrepreneurs in Nigeria between the ages of 18 to 45. Malam Isyaku added.

Subsequently, Malam Ahmad Abdullahi Yakasai sensitized the gathering on the role of ICT in modern businesses. While Kabiru Said Dakata CITAD’s Senior Program Officer made his presentation on developing good business plan. Dakata told that a structure of good business plan must comprise the following: Cover page, table of contents, executive summary, business description, business environment analysis, industry background, competitor analysis, market analysis, marketing plan, operations plan and management summary.

The last presentation was a tutorial and demonstration on filling the online YouWin application form. The tutorial session was facilitated by Khadija Idris of CITAD. Malama Khadijah demonstrated the way an applicant should fill the form and what is required in the application form.

Hajiya Binta Rabi’u Executive Secretary Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development made the vote of thank. She thanked Almighty Allah for helping us to conduct such wonderful program. She then expressed her gratitude to the administration of his Excellency Dr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso for different empowering programs and showing more concern on women and youths in the state. She also thanked the Hon. Commissioner for her efforts on the progressive programs in favor of women in the state. Lastly, she thanked CITAD and described them as the backbone of this lecture. Adding that without them the Hon. Commissioner, the directors of the ministry and you the participants will not be here. “Due to their effort even the closing date of this award was extended to 31^st of this month”, she added.