President Bola Tinubu has signed a bill to create the North-Central Development Commission.
This was made public on Tuesday by Godswill Akpabio, the Senate President, who announced the signing of the bill during plenary.
However, he didn’t give details on when the bill was assented to by the president.
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Akpabio said, “Let me also inform my colleagues that Mr. President has also assented to the North-Central Development Commission establishment bill 2024, in order to bring development to the grassroots.
“And for this, we congratulate, the good people of the North-Central region of Nigeria, and we wish them more development and particularly peace, as we forge ahead in the task of nation-building.”
His announcement comes a day after the president assented to a bill establishing a federal university of environmental technology in Ogoni, Rivers state.
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