Katsina To Get Technology Incubation Hub

Federal authorities has approved the constitution of a exertion incubation hub successful Katsina State.
The authorities governor, Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, disclosed this erstwhile helium received a delegation from the Innovation Support Network (ISN) astatine the Katsina House, Asokoro, Abuja. The sojourn was portion of engagements up of the 4th ISN Annual Gathering, scheduled to clasp connected November 26, 2025, to beryllium jointly hosted by Katsina and Kano States.

He describied it arsenic a large measurement toward advancing innovation, research, and entrepreneurship successful Northern Nigeria.

“Just recently, Katsina was selected to big a caller Federal Government supported Technology Incubation Hub. Once completed, it volition fortify our presumption arsenic a halfway for research, innovation, and technology-driven entrepreneurship successful Northern Nigeria”, Radda said.

He described the improvement arsenic a validation of his administration’s imaginativeness to marque Katsina a starring integer hub successful the North, stressing that exertion is “a captious operator of modern governance, younker empowerment, and economical growth.”

The governor, who is besides co-chair for the 2025 ISN Annual Gathering, assured that the authorities is afloat prepared to big the nationalist innovation event.

“Katsina is acceptable to big a gathering of this magnitude. Our youths are creative, energetic, and anxious to enactment successful Nigeria’s innovation story.

“We volition proceed to unfastened doors for partnerships that equip our young radical with integer skills and hole them for the aboriginal of work”, helium added.

Radda highlighted the constitution of the Katsina State Directorate of Information and Communication Technology (KATDICT) arsenic portion of the state’s integer translation agenda, noting that his authorities has made important investments successful integer infrastructure, e-governance, and quality superior development.

“Our collaboration with ISN aligns perfectly with our imaginativeness to marque Katsina a starring integer hub successful Northern Nigeria,” helium added. “Together with ISN, we volition physique an ecosystem wherever ideas flourish, startups grow, and young innovators pb the adjacent procreation of solutions.”

In his remarks, Malam Abdulganiyu Rufai Yakub, president of the ISN Annual Gathering 2025 Organising Committee, commended Governor Radda’s committedness to technology-driven governance and inclusive innovation.

“Your Excellency’s imaginativeness successful embracing innovation arsenic a instrumentality for inclusive improvement is commendable. The ISN Annual Gathering 2025 volition show however beardown collaboration betwixt government, the backstage sector, and innovators tin accelerate maturation crossed Nigeria”, helium said.