Senior political figure Salihu Tanko Yakassai has urged leaders in the North-West to take urgent steps to make the North West Development Commission (NWDC) functional.
He also warned that the region risks falling behind other parts of the country that are already leveraging their development commissions to drive large-scale projects.
Yakassai’s call followed recent moves by the South West Development Commission, which announced a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian Railway Corporation to link the six states in the region by rail.
The proposed rail project, to be funded through statutory allocations, state government
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