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SINCE his assumption of office as Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has brought renewed passion to public office, first by hitting the ground ...

AbdulRazaq in his remark said his administration will continue to implement policies and programmes that will make Kwara a better place to live, invest, and work. The contractor has until the end of December to hand over the project to the state government. “This implies that no government will come to this state and close the door that the current administration has opened for women. KWASSIP had been established to positively impact the lives of the poor, the vulnerable, the unemployed and those at the bottom of the financial pyramid who have no access to funding. Hundreds of small scale business operators also got the attention of Governor AbdulRazaq under its Kwara State Social Investment Programme (KWASSIP) as no fewer than 490 small enterprise operators recently received varying amounts of non-interest loans to grow their enterprises. This development has made residents of the Tanke area heave a sigh of relief over the pace of work on the flyover designed to ease traffic gridlock on the ever busy Tanke/Unilorin road. The Commissioner for Women Affairs, who was recently redeployed to the Ministry of Water Resources, Hajia Riskatullahi Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir, told journalists that the law has opened the political space in the area of appointments for women. Residents of Igbaja, one of the ancient towns in the state, located in the Ifelodun local government area of the state, which hasn’t had public water for 21 years, are now savouring the good performance of the current administration. According to her, this has now scaled up the level of representation of women in political appointments to a minimum of 35 per cent and a maximum of 65 pe rcent. SINCE his assumption of office as Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has brought renewed passion to public office, first by hitting the ground running and then by beginning the systematic clean-up of the rot that he encountered on the ground. The pre- and post-production of films will be done at the visual centre, as well as the practical village, which is also 75 per cent completed and will be commissioned soon. Indeed, before things went awry, and in the years leading to his assumption of office, there was Tate & Lyle, Matchco; the Jebba Paper Mill; Bacita Sugar Company; Kwara Breweries, and even Kwara Textile, among others.