NAN-H-103
Renovation
Makurdi, Oct. 18, 2016 (NAN) The Benue Executive Council (EXCO) on Tuesday approved
N500.4 million for the renovation and furnishing of Aper Aku Lodge in the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Chief Odeh Ageh, made the disclosure at a news conference after EXCO meeting in Makurdi.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lodge, being used as part of the Government House, had become an eyesore.
The commissioner said that the contract had been awarded to SAB Nigeria Limited.
Ageh added that the Council had also raised a committee for the disbursement of N2 billion contributory marching fund between the state government and the Bank of Industry (BoI).
He explained that the committee would be chaired by the state Governor Samuel Ortom,
while the Chief of Staff, Commissioners for Finance, Industry Trade and Investment, Justice, the SSG and the Head of Service, are members.
According to the terms of the agreement, the funds so raised will be utilised to provide working capital loans, as well as for the leasing of industrial and business equipment to indigenous entrepreneurs.
The fund is also to facilitate the promotion and setting up of micro, small and medium scale enterprises in the state with each of the parties contributing N1 billion. (NAN)
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(Edited by David Onilede/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu)