Kwara Expends Over N11billion On Infrastructure

Date: 2018-07-08

The Kwara state government said that it had expended over N11billion on infrastructure across the state between December 2016 and December 2017.

Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Communications, Dr Muhideen Akorede explained that the fund was expended under the government's special funding window tagged Kwara Infrastructure Development Fund (IF-K).

Akorede who explained that the council received report on the state's IGR reform under which IF-K got its funding between December 2016 and December 2017, said N4.97bn was expended on existing projects while N6.07bn was spent on new projects.

Speaking further, Akorede who explained that projects captured under Kwara Public and Private Partnership Bureau was the branding and repositioning of Kwara Hotels, said the Hotel would be benchmark against best practice, saying NOVOTEL and IBIS would handle the project under Accorde Hotel Group.

"The state government would retain the ownership of the Hotel but will offer Kwarans the opportunity to be part owners through crowd funding arrangement.

"This arrangement will be 100 percent local contents and expected to create over 1,500 indirect local jobs to artisans, 500 jobs for professionals and 182 direct jobs after completion", Akorede explained.

Also speaking, the commissioner for information and communications, Alhaji Mohammed Ishiak Sabi, said council also considered requests from experts on the upward review of contract sum of Diamond Split Underpass, Kulende-UITH-Oke-Ose and Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara roads projects.

According to the commissioner, the council after thorough deliberations on expertise's advice, decided to approve the upward review of Split Diamond Underpass from N2,930,847,252.06 to N3,639,444,659.04, making a difference of N708,597,407.33.

Sabi added that Kunlende -UITH-Oke-Ose road project was reviewed upward from N2,385,217,963.01bn to N3,47,86,789.16bn and the Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara road was increased from N2,156,953,404.88bn to N2,361,904,549.71bn.

According to the commissioner, the upward review of the contract sum becomes imperative so as to take care of some unforeseen circumstances that might jeopardise the life span of the projects.

Source

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ekweremadu     Niyi Osundare     Hamza Usman     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Ajasse-Ipo     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Sherif Sagaya     Grillo     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Asa     Aliyu Adebayo     Ilorin Emirate     Turaki Of Ilorin     Imam Gambari     NYSC     Ilofa     Moro     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Abdulwahab Ololele     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Suleman Abubakar     Bashir Adigun     Oyin-Zubair     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Muritala Olarewaju     Aliyu Alhassan     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Emir Of Lafiagi     Dele Momodu     Kishira     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Durosinlohun Atiku     Oke-Ogun     Share-Tsaragi     Sidikat Alaya     Segun Ogunsola     George Funsho Adebayo     Babs Iwarere     Voices Of Tomorrow     Bisi Kristien     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Kola Shittu     Rafiu Ajakaye     Shuaib Jawondo     Isiaka Oniwa     Halimat Yusuf     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Okeose Christian Cementary     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Temitope Ogunbanke     Adedeji Onimago     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Kwara University Of Education     Ethical College     Okanlawon Musa     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Simon Sayomi     CCB     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Royal FM     Alabere     Ishaq Salman     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Tunji Moronfoye     Sebastine Obasi     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Amosa     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Okin Biscuit    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yusuf Abdulraheem     Ladi Hassan     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Presidential Election     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Kola Shittu     Simon Sayomi     Ahmad Belgore     Balikis Jawondo     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Maryam A. Garuba     Mary Kemi Adeosun     IQRA College     Ballah     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Inside Kwara     UNIFEMGA     Minister     Vasolar Consortium     Local Government     Okanlawon Taiwo     Lanre Issa Onilu     Awwal Jawondo     Mohammed Danjuma     Dasuki Belgore     NFAI     Musa Abdullahi     Lanwa     Oke-Ode     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Awoye     Bamikole Omishore     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Dauda Adesola     Gbenga Awoyale     Sheikh Ariyibi     Aliyu Adebayo     Saba Mamman Daniel     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Olaitan Buraimoh     Neo Mundo Ltd     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Adekunle David Dunmade     Modupe Oluwole     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Olatunde Olukoya     Olatunde Oyeyiola     AbdulRauf Keji     Gamji Members Association     Alaaya     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Patience Jonathan     AGILE Programme     Yakubu Gobir     Kishira     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Adamu Atta     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Kwara Liberation Group     Mansur Alfanla     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     John Mayokun Dada     Omoniyi Ayinla     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Logun     Dan Iya     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Makama     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Tsado Manman     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Olaoye B. Felix