Kwara To Partner AfDB On Infrastructure Development

Date: 2019-08-02

Kwara State government has opened talks with the African Development Bank (AfDB) on various areas of partnership, including road construction, small and medium scale enterprises with focus on women empowerment, energy, and agro-processing.

The proposed partnership is the outcome of a meeting Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq held with the AfDB team in Abuja on Monday during which he spelt out the priorities of his new administration and sought the buy-in of the development body.

This was disclosed in a statement signed by the governor's chief press secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye.

The meeting was attended by AfDB country director, Ebrimal Faal and other top officials of the agency.

The statement said the governor identified the priority areas to include education, healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, women and youth empowerment, and entrepreneurship. He also explained steps he has taken to improve the priority area by citing recent multimillion Naira counterpart funds he released to access various development funds.

The statement quoted AbdulRazaq as saying that the administration plans to develop agribusiness and promote agro-processing with special focus on commodities like sugarcane, rice and cashew, among others.

The governor mentioned some investments in these areas to include the $350million sugar refinery being constructed by the BUA Group and the 16,000 hectares of sugarcane plantation owned by the Dangote Group, according to the statement.

"Consequently, Kwara is eyeing a partnership with the AfDB for the construction of Kosubosu-Lafiagi road. There will also be further talks on how Kwara can benefit from AfDB's initiatives like the $50million facility to support SMEs and women-owned businesses, $200million project for national electrification and transmission lines; and AfDB agro-industrial development through its Special Agro -Industrial Processing Zone being pursued with some Chinese investors, among others," the statement said.

"A team of experts from the AfDB is expected in Kwara later in the year to identify projects in the priority areas," it added.

It said the AfDB has also invited AbdulRazaq to attend the business-to-business (B2B) meetings with some Chinese investors along with some other governors in Abuja on August 7, setting the ground for future engagements between the Kwara State government, AfDB and the investors.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Yunus Oniboki     Kwara Central     KWTV     Yomi Ogunsola     Kabir Shagaya     Adanla-Irese     James Kolo     Grillo     Saliu Alamoyo     Jide Ashonibare     Igosun     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Salihu Ajia     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Apaola     Shola Odetundun     Oro Grammar School     Wasiu Onidugbe     Oko     Ganiyu Taofiq     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Charcoal     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Khairat Gwadabe     Tanke     Shururat Olatinwo     Age AbdulKareem     Najim Yaasin     National Information Technology Development Agency     Galadima     United Nigeria Airline     Magaji Are     Sarah Alade     Taiwo Joseph     Halimah Perogi     Kwasu     Offa Poly     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Kwara Hotel     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Titus Ashaolu     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Umaru Saro     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Ilorin Like-Minds     Saeedat Aliyu     Wahab Abayawo     Erubu Oba Zubair     Patience Jonathan     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Oloriegbe     TESCOM 2025     Matthew Okedare     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Saba Jibril     Kayode Ishola     Universal Basic Education Commission     Zaratu Umar     Kwara 2023     Onilu     Lai Gobir     Owo Isowo     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Sambo Murtala     Amusa Bello     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Azeez Bello     Balogun Fulani     Council Of The Wise     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Tunde Kazeem    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kolade Solagberu     MalHub     Obasanjo     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Tunde Kazeem     Chief Of Staff     KWAFFA     Oladimeji Thompson     Solomon Edoja     Hakeem Lawal     Bareke     Nurudeen Mohammed     Aso Ofi     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Baakini     Aliyu U. Tilde     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Yusuf Ali     Oke-Oyi     Salman Jawondo     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Awoye     Surajudeen Akanbi     Abdulraheem Olesin     Computer Based Test     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Raji AbdulRasaq     KWSIEC     Mohammed Saidu     Ohoro Of Shao     Ahmed     Labaeka     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Maigidasanma     Jani Ibrahim     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Smart School     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Ilorin Airport     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Ilorin Central Mosque     Toyin Saraki     Oba Abdulrahim     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Abdulrazaq Sanni     GGDSS Pakata     Osi     Onilu     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Folorunsho Erubu     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Neo Mundo Ltd     Justina Oha     Taofik Mustapha     Bola Tinubu     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Local Government     Ishaq Salman     Ilorin Muslim Community     QuickWin     Mohammed Yisa     Reuben Paraje     Jide Ashonibare     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Sam Okaula     Labour Party     Kwara 2019     Kayode Yusuf     Olugbense     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Salihu Alhaji Musa