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.

Aso-ofi     Curfew     Turaki     Abdulfatai Baakini     Abdulrazaq Akorede     KwaraLearn     Kamoru Kadiri     Adebayo Salami     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     John Dara     MAI Akande     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Abioye Bello     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Oloriegbe     Elerinjare     Lola Ashiru     JSSCE     Samuel Adaramola     Bureau Of Lands     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Muritala Olarewaju     Ndama Al-hassan     Ogbondoroko     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Chief Of Staff     Salman Jawondo     Gbemisola Saraki     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Coronavirus     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     NITDA     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Suleman Abubakar     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Osinbajo     Saad Omo\'ya     Moremi High School     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Kannike     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     CT Ayeni     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Saad Omo Iya     Umar Ayinla Saro     Maryam A. Garuba     Wahab Egbewole     Kwara State Governor     Ilesha-Baruba     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Saliu Tunde Bello     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Eghe Igbinehi     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Ajikobi     Chikanda     Kaiama     Tanke Road     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Khairat Gwadabe     Ilorin Durbar     Ayegbeni     Hijaab     Michael Ologundea     Ramat Oganija     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Nurudeen Muhammed     Hassan Taiye Salam     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Elewu     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Federal Polytechnic Offa    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sabi     Henry Makinwa     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Otuka     Lafiagi     CCT     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Lola Olabayo     Saka Aleshinloye     Femi Gbajabiamila     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Farouk Salim     Abatemi-Usman     Gani Saadu     KWASSIP     Alapado     Amoyo     Tsado Manman     Haleeman Salman     Balikis Jawondo     Eghe Igbinehi     Arinola Lawal     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Mustapha Akanbi     Alikinla     SARS     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Ike Ekweremadu     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     REO CAKES     Rafiu Olasile     Makama Of Ilorin     Fatai Olodo     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Dele Momodu     YAKOOYO     Hamza Usman     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Council Of The Wise     Musbau A. Akanji     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Mary Arinde     Kwara 2015     Yakubu Dogara     Galadima     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Kunle Okeowo     T And K FOODS     Aminat Ahmed     Rasheed Jimoh     Frootify     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Omoniyi Ayinla     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Idiagbon     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Salaudeen Oyewale     Sa\'adu Salahu     Principal Private Secretary     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Toyin Falola     Federal Allocation     Gbajabiamila     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Quareeb Islamic Association     Durbar Festival     Baboko Primary School     Saliu Ajia     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Adamu Atta     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Just Event Online     CCEPE     Aremu Odolaye