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Governors meet Sylva Wednesday on gas expansion programme‎

Members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has invited the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva for more clarification on the National Gas Expansion Program (NGEP).

NGF’s spokesman, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo said, in a statement on Tuesday, that Sylva was invited to brief the forum at its 12th teleconference scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday.

He said: “The rubric will revolve around ‘Expanding Domestic Gas Supply & Stimulating Demand in the Country,’ soon after the opening remarks by the Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr John Kayode Fayemi.”

Bello-Barkindo said the NGF will also receive a presentation from the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) on the implementation of the 5% user’s charge by FERMA.

He added: “The second corruption survey, their policy patterns and trends at the sub-national level, as analysed by the National Bureau for Statistics (NBS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will feature as one of the presentations when Governors of the 36 states hold their 12th teleconference since the outbreak of the Covid19 pandemic.

“To review the trend, a representative of the UNODC Oliver Stolpe and the Statistician General, Dr Yemi Kale will join governors in the teleconference to shed light on the subject.

“The governors will also discuss the Executive Order 10, 2020 – Financial Autonomy for the Legislature & Judiciary of States among other matters.”

Bello-Barkindo said the meeting will also take “a critical look” at the nation’s economic sustainability, post Covid19, giving special attention to the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA); a compendium of state-owned moribund companies & commercial entities; and the infrastructure refund to the remaining five states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ondo and Osun.

He added: “An invitation from the Director General of the NGF, Mr Asishana Bayo Okauru to the governors, lists the issues to be discussed at the meeting including an update from the Governor of Delta State Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his committee’s interface with the Presidential Task Force, on Covid19, and its new emphasis on community spread, particularly regarding how best to mitigate the development.

“The meeting takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 8th July 2020, and commences at 2 pm.

“Governors are expected to start joining the meeting from 1 pm as it starts at 2 pm.”

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