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.

Mamatu Abdullahi     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Osinbajo     Okeose Christian Cementary     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Maryam Nurudeen     Mahe Abdulkadir     Amina El-Imam     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Niyi Osundare     Sheikh Alimi     Tafida     REO CAKES     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     African Democratic Congress     Cornelius Adebayo     Kayode Ishola     Moronfoye     Suleiman Ajadi     Paul Olawoore     Hakeem Lawal     UTME     Isa Aremu     Prince Bola Ajibola     Minimum Wage     Abiodun Oyedepo     Eghe Igbinehi     Ilorin East     Ballah     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Offa Descendants Union     Galadima     Yomi Adeboye     Oniyangi     Council Of The Wise     Lanre Aremu     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Sobi     Saka Aleshinloye     Mike Omotosho     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Post Utme     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Alaaya     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Shonga     Shuaib Olarongbe     Neo Mundo Ltd     Ado Ibrahim     Elesie Of Esie     Suleiman Idris     Shehu Jimoh     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Kwara State Sports Commission     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Babatunde Idiagbon     Aliyu U. Tilde     Abraysports FC     Oke-Kura     Twitter     Adamu Attah     Isin     Segun Ogunsola     Royal FM     Muhammed Abdullahi     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     COVID-19 Palliatives     Umar Danladi Shero     Folashade Omoniyi     Eleyele     Dasuki Belgore     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Millennium Development Goals     NIPR     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Ileloke     Sanitation Exercise    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Shettima Of Ilorin     Olokoba Sulyman     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     General Hospital     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Ahmad Uthman     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     IDPU     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Muritala Olarewaju     Sidikat Akaje     Kulende-UITH     Abdulkareem Alabi     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Buhari     Shehu Salau     Idiagbon     Okala Baba     Rafiu Olasile     Suleiman Idris     Yahaya Oloriegbe     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Minimum Wage     Olam Food Ingredients     Javed Khan     Nnazua     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Mubarak Oladosu     Ilorin.Info     Kwara     Agboola Babatunde     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Dairo Kunle Paul     Abubakar Usman Jos     Curfew     Ilorin Curfew     Akanji     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Sarah Jubril     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Okedare     Senate President     IYA YUSUF     Sunday Fagbemi     Pakata     Babatunde Idiagbon     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Kanu Agabi     Edret Sabi Abel     NIPR     Ahmad Lawan     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Salihu Ajia     Raymond Olaitan     University Road     Mutawali     Ramat Oganija     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Joseph Offorjama     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Ahmed Alhasssan     11th Galadima     Sanusi Abubakar     Bareke     Ilorin Central Mosque     Yakubu Shaaba     Saad Belgore     Olosi Of Osi     GANZY     Oloriegbe     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Abdulazeez Arowona     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Isaac Gbenle