Kano State government has approved the release of N171.4 million for the takeoff of the state's ICT Park situated at Ado Bayero House in the city centre.

The state's commissioner for environment, Alhaji Garba Yusuf Abubakar, disclosed this to newsmen at the Government House saying that the park will be a major site for ICT businesses such as software, hardware and outsourcing.

"The state executive council has approved the release of N171.4 million for the takeoff of the ICT Park. By this development, Kano State is set to become the ICT nucleus of the country," Alhaji Abubakar said.

The state government, according to Abubakar, has also set aside the sum of N52.9 million for clearance of drainages attached to the metropolis major roads. This, he said, is to curtail flooding of the roads in the forthcoming rainy season. "In the same vein, the state executive council has approved N128.8 million for the procurement and distribution of relief materials to victims of various disasters across the state. N25 million was also set aside for entrepreneurship promotion through public private partnership (PPP) arrangement to be supervised by the state ministry of commerce and cooperatives," Abubakar said.