State News – Page 17 – City Business News

January 14, 2021 No Responses

Wike Confirms Refund Of N78b Spent On Federal Projects In Rivers

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has confirmed the Federal Government’s refund of the N78 billion spent by State on Federal projects. Wike stated this on Wednesday during the inauguration of the Isiopko Internal Roads Phase 2 in Ikwerre Local Government Area. The inauguration...

January 13, 2021 No Responses

Delta Boosts Agro-Industrial Park With N8b

Delta State Government has injected N8 billion sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) into the Agro-Industrial Park project in Aboh-Ogwashi in Aniocha South Local Government Area. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charle...

January 10, 2021 No Responses

Rivers Approves N10.1b Legislative Quarters Construction

Rivers State Executive Council has approved the construction of a new House of Assembly quarters in Port Harcourt at the cost of N10.1 billion. The new legislative quarters, expected to provide global standard accommodation for the legislators, is expect...

January 8, 2021 No Responses

Lagos Targets N60.31b Monthly IGR

The Lagos State Government has indicated a monthly target of N60.318 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to fund the 2021 budget. Speaking during a media briefing on the Analysis of the Year 2021 Budget at Alausa, Ikeja, the Commissioner for...

January 5, 2021 No Responses

Edo To Conclude Fund Raising For Benin River Port In 2021

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that the state government has appointed a transaction adviser for the Benin River Port project, noting that the state hopes to conclude designs and fundraising for the project by 2021. The...

January 3, 2021 No Responses

Rivers To Inaugurate Six Roads, Jetty

The Rivers State Government has concluded arrangement to inaugurates six completed road projects in seven Local Government Areas (LGA) of the State. The state Commissioner of Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, who an...

January 1, 2021 No Responses

Diri:We’ll Diversify Bayelsa Economy In 2021, Create Jobs

Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri has pledged the commitment of his administration todiversify the state’s economy as part of measures to reduce total dependence on federal allocations in 2021. The governor made the remarks in hi...

December 30, 2020 No Responses

Lagos Assembly Passes N1.163tri 2021 Budget

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N1.163 trillion, seven weeks after the budget was presented to the Assembly by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The House passed the budget after the report of the...

December 23, 2020 No Responses

Delta Approves N40b For Construction Of Roads, Infrastructure

The Delta Government has approved N40 billion for construction of 14 roads, bridges, flyovers and flood drainage channels spanning over 136 kilometres across the state.The state Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye, and his Information counterpart, Mr Ch...

December 21, 2020 No Responses

Diri Extols Sylva’s Contribution To Bayelsa’s Development

Former Governor of Bayelsa State and now Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has been extolled for his immense contributions to the development of Bayelsa. Gov. Douye Diri stated this on Saturday night, during a grand receptio...

December 20, 2020 No Responses

Akwa Ibom Targets 300,000 Jobs With $4.6b Ibom Deep Seaport

Akwa Ibom State Government on Saturday said the approval of $4.6 billion by the Federal Government to build Ibom Deep Seaport (IDSP) will create jobs for over 300,000 teeming youths in the state. Mr Akan Okon, the Commissioner for Economic...

December 19, 2020 No Responses

Obiano Dethrones Three Traditional Rulers

Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano has withdrawn the certificates of appointment of three traditional rulers in the state and also reinstated five others. Chief Greg Obi, Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affair...

December 16, 2020 No Responses

Residents, Traders Express Shock Over Demolition Of FESTAC Market

Some Festac Town residents and traders in Lagos State on Tuesday expressed shock and anger over the demolition of the Oyinlola Market popularly called ”23 Road Market” by government. They said the demolition showed the state government’s “insensitivity...

December 15, 2020 No Responses

Ogun To Establish Newspaper, Online News Platform

The Ogun Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Waheed Odusile, on Monday said that the state planned to establish a newspaper and online news platform to inform and mobilise the citizens for government policies and programmes. Odusile made the di...