Troubled Zamfara has established three empowerment centres for the training of Internally Displaced Persons IDPs in various skills.
The empowerment centres have been handed over to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development,’’ the commissioner, Fa’ika Ahmad, told newsmen in Gusau.
She said one centre was located in each of the three senatorial districts of the state in Gusau, Bukkuyum and Shinkafi local government areas.
The commissioner also told newsmen that a 2019 multidimensional poverty report scored Zamfara 91.8 per cent in national poverty rate making the state the poorest in the country.
The directorate was upgraded to a full-fledged ministry in 2021.
