The Governor enjoined them to be good ambassadors of the state and country by avoiding acts capable of tarnishing Nigeria’s image, especially trafficking in drugs and Kolanuts
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Bello said his call for prayers was predicated on the current wave of security challenges facing the state.
The governor complained of increasing cases of robbery, kidnapping and banditry in the state.
Governor Yahaya Bello told newsmen in Lokoja that the salary arrears would be paid from the N20 billion bailout funds received by the state government from the Central Bank of Nigeria
Tope Ojo, a civil servant, however, noted that the present state government within its short period in office had tried to bring about improvement in supply of potable water across the state
This was just as he said no dividend of the trips had been felt, while insisting that something was happening wrongly in the state.
He requested for the expenditure of the seven months statutory allocations to the state
When our Correspondent got to the the State Secretariat on Monday, it was like an ant-hill by civil servants who arrived the office of the Head of Service as early as 6am over the omittance of their names from the payroll
A statement released by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Strategy, Mr. Abdulkarim Abdulmalik, said the children and the mother are in sound health
In his assertion, the Deputy Speaker of of State House, Hon. Ibrahim Hussaini, stated that the executive needs to match words with action and go after the looters
The human rights activist noted that from 2003, the state had contended with problems of uncompleted projects, inflated contracts, huge and fake wage bills and huge debts of “unimaginable proportion” among other anomalies
This happened at the swearing in ceremony of the 25 Local Government chairmen of the state by the Bello on Thursday at the Government House
Bello directed the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs and the Local Government Service Commission to comply immediately and accordingly
Presenting the budget on the floor of the Niger State House of Assembly, Bello said the 2016 budget is expected to be financed through Statutory allocation estimated at N35,792,212,748.00, Value-Added Tax of N9,871,299,803.00, Internally Generated Revenue of N9,391,164,235.00 and Capital receipts N19,689,474,347, bringing the total to N74,744,151,133.00
“We budgeted to spend N4.29 billion on Education, N3.59 billion on infrastructural development, N2.61 billion on health, N2.53 billion on agriculture and rural development and N2.38 billion on water resources,” he said
This, Governor Bello said, would be achieved through timely procurement and distribution of fertilizers at subsidised rates
He further said that the estimate, tagged: “Budget of restoration,” will ensure construction, upgrading and rehabilitation of health facilities and services, adding that completion of all ongoing road projects and construction of new ones will be embarked on in the fiscal year
This is coming barely few weeks of an alleged impeachment process by the legislators against the Speaker, Hon. Ahmed Marafa, who was accused of being too slow to push for their demands for constituency allowances as well as the Assembly’s pending overhead balances
The Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism, Comrade Jonathan Vatsa, in a maiden post-executive council meeting briefing in the Government House on Wednesday told Correspondents that the era of stealing was gone
Bello cautioned them on corruption at the Government House during their swearing in, adding that the task ahead was enormous, but promised to have an economically vibrant state so as to meet up with the aspirations of the people of Niger State
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