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.

Abdulrasaq Alaro     Sunday Fagbemi     CUTI     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Tafida Of Kaiama     Kwara 2023     Mike Omotosho     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Saad Belgore     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Nurudeen Muhammed     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     GANZY     Students Union Government     Sam Okaula     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Ike Ekweremadu     Ijagbo Health Centre     James Ayeni     Government High School Adeta     Doyin Awoyale     Balogun Gambari     Ojuekun Sarumi     Bolaji Gambari     Yekini Adio     Lanre Badmus     Ahman Pategi University     Ilofa     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     April 11     Alaiye     Abubakar Atiku     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     The Herald     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Ayobami Akanbi     Raji AbdulRasaq     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Hauwa Nuru     Dairo Kunle Paul     Salman Suleiman     Apaola     Manzuma     Lanre Issa Onilu     Nigeria Customs Service     Kwara     Daud Adeshola     Convocation Ceremonies     Oba Of Jebba     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Kwara State Governor     Tsaragi/Share     March 28     Kwarareports     Mohammed Yisa     Isaac Gbenle     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Kale Kawu     Sarkin Malamai     Oyawoye     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     AbdulHamid Adi     Siraj Oyewale     Maimunat Oniyangi     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Funmi Salau     Wahab Egbewole     Ilorin Like-Minds     Dan Iya Of Ilorin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sodiya     SSA Youth Engagement     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     NIRSAL     Waheed Ibrahim     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Roseline Oni Aremu     NNPP     Shonga Farm Project     Madawaki     TIC     Wasiu Onidugbe     Adedeji Onimago     Lanre Aremu     Adamu Attah     Azeez Salawu     Isapa     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     NIPOGA     Valsolar     Bayer AG     Abubakar Baba     Doyin Awoyale     Ishola Moses Abiodun     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Ilorin Metro Park     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Buari Edun     Habeeb Saidu     School Of Nursing     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Sobi FM     Elese Of Igbaja     Abikan     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Muazam Nayaya     Seun Bolaji     Computer Based Test     Kisra     Ishola Abdullahi     Balogin Alanamu     Oke-opin     Assayomo     Dauda Adesola     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Ashiru     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     New Model Police Station     Zulu Gambari     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Memunat Monsuma     Tayo Awodiji     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Abdullahi Biffo     Women Radio     Afolayan     Abdulazeez Uthman     Bolaji Abdullahi     NaAllah     NSCIA     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Abdulwahab Oba     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Shuaibu Yaman     Abdullahi Samari     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu