Kano to improve bilateral relations with French Republic

The administration of Kano State Governor, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, has reiterated its commitment to strengthening the existing diplomatic ties between Kano State and the French Republic.

This promise was made by the governor during a Friday meeting with the French ambassador to Nigeria at the State Government House.

Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the former governor of Kano State, worked hard to build and maintain a positive relationship with the French government, and Yusuf, through his deputy Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo, emphasised this.

Gwarzo was quoted as saying that Sen Kwankwaso established French-speaking secondary schools in Madobi Town and two other locations in the Republic of Niger in a statement by the Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor, Ibrahim Garba Shaibu.

Earlier in her remarks, the French ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Blatmann, stated that the delegation’s trip to Kano was intended to present the state government with a number of development projects in order to increase employment opportunities and the state’s economic standing.

Blatmann also mentioned that the French government has long promoted women’s apprenticeships and agricultural technical education while working with the private sector to cooperate in agriculture.

According to Blatmann, over the past 12 years, the French government has invested close to three billion euros through the French Agency for Development in a number of Nigerian citizens’ welfare projects, of which Kano State has benefited.

The Urban Water Supply Project, Urban Mobility Project, Energy Grid Project, Projects on Higher Education, Mass Transportation Project, Request for Rehabilitation/Revival of Kano French Culture Centre, Rural Access Project, Agricultural Marketing Project, and others are among these projects.

The Kano state government will carefully review all the proposed projects, Gwarzo assured the French ambassador on behalf of the governor.

Following that, the state government will invite France to a meeting to discuss how to carry out these projects, according to Gwarzo.