By Shuaibu Tatu
Birinin Kebbi – The Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Bagudu, has directed each local government council in the state to select 300 small-scale business owners to be given additional capital to boost their businesses.
Bagudu gave the directive during a meeting with the 21 local government chairmen at the Government House in Birnin Kebbi on Friday.
The Chief of Staff to the Governor, Alhaji Muhammad Argungu, briefed newsmen after the meeting that the small-scale business owners would be selected from each ward in the state.
Argungu said each business owner would receive N30,000 which they could use to grow their businesses.
He urged the local government chairmen to select genuine business men and women who would use the money productively.