Kwara increases ministries from 16 to 20

Date: 2021-08-22

The Kwara State Executive Council has approved a memorandum to restructure and split some government ministries to achieve greater efficiency. It also said the restructuring would ensure effective coordination of mandates and accommodate the developmental needs of the 21st century.

With the restructuring, the number of ministries has increased from 16 to 20.

The memorandum was presented by the State Head of Service, Mrs Modupe Oluwole, at a virtual cabinet meeting on Friday evening chaired by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

The Commissioner for Communications, Mrs Abosede Buraimoh, said the cabinet approved that the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development be split from the Ministry of Enterprise, while the latter was renamed Ministry of Business, Innovation and Technology, to drive the state's huge investments in innovation and technology.

The development also meant the old Ministry of Tertiary Education, Science and Technology would be known as the Ministry of Tertiary Education.

The council further approved the partitioning of the Ministry of Works into the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, a step designed to concentrate on the challenge of housing and urbanisation as drivers of economic development.

The Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development was divided into the Ministry of Women Affairs and Ministry of Social Affairs for efficiency in their core responsibilities, particularly because of the increasing scope of issues relating to women globally.

The Ministry of Sports and Youth Development became the Ministry of Youths Development, following the recent creation of the Kwara State Sports Commission, which now has the obligations to streamline and coordinate sporting activities and promotion in the state.

The cabinet also approved the carving out of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development from the current Ministry of Finance and Planning, leaving the finance segment of the old ministry to stand on its own.

The cabinet upheld the argument that the "responsibility of planning has evolved into diverse and well-developed branches, which makes it expedient to make it a full-fledged ministry to enhance robust and seamless planning process" as well as allow for finance, which is also large and critical to the fiscal success of the government, to optimise its focus.

The council also approved that each of the ministries - now 20 in total, up from the 16 - would be manned by separate permanent secretaries, while the existing directorates in each of them would subsist.

The Head of Service also briefed the council on the recent Kwara Geographic Information Service Law 2020, which stipulates that the agency will coordinate and superintend over the Office of the Surveyor-General, Bureau of Lands, Physical Planning Authority and Urban and Regional Planning.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Police Commissioner     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Mahee Abdulkadir     Dasuki Belgore     IYA ALFA NLA     Alliance For Democracy     ER-KANG Mining     Frootify     Ibrahim Taiwo     United Nigeria Congress Party     Abdulwahab Oba     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Saidu Kawu     Tayo Awodiji     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Ilofa     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Amos Justus Sayo     Siraj Oyewale     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Alfa Yahaya Road     John Kehinde Salako     Solomon Edojah     Seun Bolaji     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Folorunsho Alao     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Sarah Alade     Ibrahim Jawondo     Harmony Holdings     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Salary     Ilorin General Hospital     Allocation     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Saka Abimbola Isau     Falokun-Oja     Femi Agbaje     Sambo Murtala     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Taofeek Ibraheem     Salman Jawondo     Azeez Bello     Matthew Okedare     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Nigerian Army     Joseph Alex Offorjama     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Isin     Baakini     Okala Baba     Babajide Ajayi     Share/Tsaragi     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Okin Malt     University Road     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Gobirawa     Kwara Basketball Association     Lukman Adeloyin     Hijaab     Mujtabah Bature     Baboko     Harafat E. Mukadam     Bashir Adigun     Kwara State Fire Service     Saba Jibril     International Aviation College     Revenue Court     Ibrahim Orire     KWAFFA     Isiaka Rafiu Mope    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdulrasheed Akogun     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Arik     Awoye     Agbarigidoma     Odo-Owa     Ike Ekweremadu     Teachers Specific Allowance     Ayo Salami     Olupako Of Share     Christopher Odetunde     ASMAU PLAZA     Saidu Kawu     Yusuf A. Usman     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     V.O. Abioye     KW-GIS     Ilorin East     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Abubakar Atiku     David Oyedepo     Jimoh Akani     Igbomina     Doyin Awoyale     Elections     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Ghali Alaaya     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     College Of Health     Abdullahi Samari     Taofeek Ibraheem     Abdullateef Abdussalam     AbdulRahman Saad     Yemi Osinbajo     Kwara University Of Education     Bayo Ojo     Kolo     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     IFK     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Hajj     Omu-aran     Raheem Adaramaja     Chikanda     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     CUTI     CBT     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Ajakaye     NIPOGA     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Kwarareports.com     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Dagbalodo     Oba Abdulraheem     Mazars Consulting     Oke-opin     Kwara Pdp     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Henry Makinwa     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Bilikisu Gambari     JUSUN     Pakata Development Association     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Kwara State Sports Commission     Olatunji Ayeni     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     IQRA College     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Abioye Bello     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence