Monthly Archives - April 2022

INVESTJIGAWA/EODB STEERING COMMITTEE HOLD TOWN HALL MEETING WITH MSMEs ON BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT REFORMS

InvestJigawa in collaboration with Jigawa State Government’s Ease of Doing Business Steering Committee held a town hall meeting on Wednesday 27th April 2022 to sensitize MSMEs within the state on reforms embarked upon by the state government meant to provide a conducive environment for the MSMEs to thrive. The event was chaired by the Deputy Governor, His Excellency Mallam Umar Namadi and attended by two hundred MSMEs.

PRESIDENTIAL ENABLING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL (PEBEC)’S NORTH-WEST STAKEHOLDER FORUM/LITUATION EVENT ON EASE OF DOING BUSINESS (EoDB) WAS HOSTED IN DUTSE ON 15TH FEBRUARY 2022.

The stakeholder forum/lituation event is an initiative of PEBEC’s EoDB Secretariat led by Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, SA to the President on Ease of Doing Business. A technical session was held in the morning with the Jigawa State Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State’s Ease of Doing Business Steering Committee, Mallam Umar Namadi giving the keynote address and answering questions. In the afternoon the lituation event held during which the Executive Governor of Jigawa State Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar [...]

SIGNING OF AGREEMENT ON 4TH APRIL 2022 BETWEEN JIGAWA STATE GOVERNMENT AND KADUME GREEN CONSORTIUM ON RICE PRODUCTION.

On the 4th of February Jigawa State Government signed an agreement with Kadume Green Consortium on a 1000ha rice production and outgrower scheme for farmers. The consortium comprises three companies; Silvex International, M & A’s Greenery and ADAB Agric-Resource Ltd. The team has a successful rice outgrower scheme for farmers in Jigawa State, where the consortium trains the farmers on rice production best practices, provide input loans (quality seeds, fertilizer and agrochemicals) and off take the rice at prevailing [...]

SIGNING OF AGREEMENT IN JUNE 2021 AND AFTERCARE VISIT TO CARAWAY AFRICA NIGERIA LIMITED’s KUDA GANGARA INTEGRATED TOMATO FARM IN FEBRUARY 2022

In June 2021 Jigawa State Government signed an agreement with Caraway Africa Nigeria Limited (an Olam Group Company) on tomato production and processing. In February 2022 a team from InvestJigawa led by the Director General, Furera Isma Jumare and the Ministry of Land, Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning, led by the Honourable Commissioner Sagir Musa conducted an aftercare visit to the Caraway project. By the time of the aftercare visit harvest had commenced and a bumper harvest is [...]

BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION/ FCDO VISIT TO INVESTJIGAWA ON 28TH MARCH 2022

A British High Commission and FCDO team visited InvestJigawa on the 28th of March 2022, led by Gail Warrander, the commission’s Economic Development Lead. Also on the team were Andrew Thorburn, FCDO-LINKS Team Lead and Fidelis Ekom, FCDO’s Regional Coordinator Jigawa/Katsina States.  FCDO has continuously provided technical support to Jigawa State Government for over two decades, and this time had a session with InvestJigawa to discuss the agency’s activities, especially any more areas of support it would require from [...]