Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) recently approved the setting up of two hubs for manufacturing shoes, garments and processing leather in Aba in Abia state and Janguza in Kano state, under a private-public partnership. The project, costing N5.1 billion, would be managed by two companies, a Nigerian and a Chinese, and will generate around 4,330 jobs.

According to the country’s minister of interior Rauf Aregbesola, the council approved the full business skills compliance certificate issued by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) for the design, financing, upgrade, operation and transfer of the Nigeria Correctional Service Shoe, Garment and Leather Processing Factory located in Aba and Janguza.

The hubs will also train inmates of correctional facilities in Janguza and Aba. The contract for full business skills compliance certificate has been offered to Nigeria’s LG Investment Limited, which is partnering with Beijing-based Full Technology Incorporated, he was quoted as saying by Nigerian media reports.

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