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.

Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Chief Imam Of Offa     Monkey Pox     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Labaeka     Aro Yahaya     Funke Adedoyin     Abdulrasheed Akogun     AbdulRauf Keji     Ayegbeni     20 Billion Bond     Olatinwo     Teachers Specific Allowance     Adaramaja     Yemi Sanni     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Oyelere Oyinloye     General Hospital, Offa     NYSC     Ayo Adeyemi     Aliyu Sabi     Aliyu Salihu     Idris Amosa Saidu     Sunday Otokiti     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Apaokagi     Umar Gunu     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Aliyu Alhassan     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Radio SBS     Taofeeq Olateju     Balogun-Ojomu     Florence Saraki     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Shola Odetundun     Hausa     Aliyu Adebayo     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Saduki Lafiagi     Illyasu Abdullahi     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Tinubu     Lawal Jimoh     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Ajakaye     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     GRA     Magaji Erubu     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Face Masks     Idi-Ape     Tafida Of Ilorin     Fola Consultant     Okoolowo     Sam Onile     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Bolakale Kawu     Idris Garba     Okedare     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Lucky Omoluwa     Ilorin Emirate     Raymond Olaitan     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Solomon Edojah     Nigeria Computer Society     Ethical College     Segun Ogunsola     Babata     Ifelodun     Baba-Isale     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Atiku Abubakar     Abraham Ojo     Olatunji Ibrahim     Ariyo     Idi-Ape     Amule     Amuda Aluko     Fatimat Saliu     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     NURTW     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Ajuloopin     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     NYSC     John Olajide Adedipe     Hajj     Ethical College     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Read With Me     Islamiya Abdulraheem     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Abubakar Baba     Oke-Ogun     Kale Belgore     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Saheed Akinwumi     Face Masks     Plat Technologies     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Monthly Sanitation     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Yetunde Balogun     Nurudeen Mohammed     Bashiru Makama     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Taiwo Joseph     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Roseline Oni Aremu     Amasa     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Usman Rifun     Umar Saro     Undergraduate Bursary     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Esuwoye     Ilorin Airport     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Bola Olukoju     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Unicontinental Construction Company     3MTT     Galland Marcias     Joseph Daudu     SGBN     Kayode Laro     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Otuka     Amada Jidda     Olaoye B. Felix     Kolo     Ahmed Alhasssan     Taofeek Sanusi     Afeyin-Olukuta     Jare Olatundun     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Lawal Olohungbebe     Ilorin Amusement Park     Buhari     Abdullahi Atanda     Dagbalodo     Olatunde Olukoya     NITDA