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AKK: NNPC, Nasarawa sign MoU on Gas utilisation …. as Gov Sule hosts gas business roundtable

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Nasarawa State Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Gas utilisation, with a view to delivering value to the people of the state, particularly with the opportunities in the gas sector. The MoU was signed by the parties during the Nasarawa Gas Business Roundtable, at the late Aliyu Akwe Doma Banquet Hall, in Lafia, on Thursday. Speaking shortly after the signing ceremony, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, disclosed that the whole idea about the Federal…

NLC strike: Nasarawa Assembly workers back out, urge Govt,NLC to return to negotiation table

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The Management of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly has called on its staff to resume work immediately. The Clerk of the House, Mr Ego Maikeffi Abashe who stated this while briefing newsmen in his office in Lafia today, wednesday said the state assembly staff just resumed from over two months strike embarked upon by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) over financial autonomy, hence the need not to join the NLC strike in the state. “We just resumed from two months strike over Financial Autonomy and I don’t…

Nasarawa Govt, Flour Mills Nigeria, sign MoU for Sugar production in Toto

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Nasarawa State government and Golden Sugar Company, a subsidiary of the Flour Mills Nigeria Plc, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), estimated at over USD300m, for the production of sugar, in Toto Local Government Area. The MoU between the two parties, was signed at a colourful ceremony, which held at the Nasarawa State Governor’s Lodge, in Abuja, on Friday. Two sitting state governors namely Professor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, as well as a former governor of Adamawa State, Jubrilla Bindow, witnessed the event.…

Nasarawa among states benefiting from $10m World Bank grant

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Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has disclosed that the state has joined other elite states in the country benefiting from the $10m each World Bank fiscal transparency grant. Engineer Sule disclosed this while delivering a speech at a sensitization workshop organized by the National Population Commission, on Enumeration Area Demarcation, in Lafia, on Wednesday. According to the Governor, even though the state has missed out on similar interventions previously, his administration is committed to exploiting every available intervention programme that is of benefit to the state. Engineer Sule announced…