NAN-HE-94
Revenue
Dutse, Oct. 26, 2016 (NAN) The Jigawa State Local Government Service Commission, has trained 108 Revenue Officers to boost Internally Generated Revenue and ensure its effective utilisation in Local Government administration.
The commission’s spokesperson, Mallam Najib Umar, made this disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Dutse.
Umar said that participants at the two-day training were drawn from the 27 Local Government Areas, whose beneficiaries included, Treasurers, Deputy Treasurers, Revenue Officers and their Deputies.
The chairman of the commission, Alhaji Kabiru Hassan, who declared the training open, said the exercise was to equip participants the best way to improve revenue generation and its effective utilisation in the councils.
“The workshop is organised in collaboration with the Commission’s Dateline Consultancy Services, as part of the State Government’s efforts to train and retrain all categories of employees, particularly the Local Government staff for maximum productivity.
“It is also to boost the Local Governments’ revenue base to execute projects that will improve the quality of lives of the people of the area,’’ he said.
He urged the participants and trainees to use the skill they acquired during the workshop to discover unexplored sources of revenues, so as to diversify the councils’ revenue base.
Umar lauded the State Government for giving the commission the necessary support that made it possible to organise the workshop and other training programmes for the Local Government staff. (NAN)
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