INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY THE DIRECTOR PLANNING, RESEARCH AND STATISTICS, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WORKS  AT THE MAIDEN EDITION OF MID-TERM REVIEW MEETING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DECISIONS REACHED AT THE 29^TH MEETING OF THE THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON WORKS (NCW) IN LAFIA, NASARAWA STATE ON MONDAY, 28^TH APRIL, 2025

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It is my honour and privilege to welcome you on behalf of the Honourable Ministers of Works and the entire staff of the Ministry to this auspicious event of the Maiden Edition of the Mid-Term Review Meeting on the Implementation of Decisions Reached at the 29^th Meeting of the National Council on Works (NCW) that was held last year in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State with theme: “Assessing Renewed Hope Transformation of the Road Transport Sector so far”.

As it sounds, the maiden review meeting was muted at the past Council Meeting following Council Members observation that earlier decisions reached at Council Meetings were rarely monitored or implemented before current meetings are held. The general consensus by  Council members on the need to create a platform where National and Sub-National actors could do a review of implemented decisions with a view to ensuring that progress is tracked for the benefits of all Nigerians. 

This notation gave birth to this maiden edition by stakeholders to review the implementation of key decisions that was reached in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State to ensure that the Federal and States Government are working towards the same objective of promoting the Renewed Hope Agenda on Infrastructural Development, particularly in the Road Sector.

We therefore thank the Government and the good people of Nasarawa State (the Home of Solid Minerals) for being the trail blazer in hosting this maiden review meeting of Council decisions in the Road Sector.

It is our hope that the outcome of the review meeting will position the sector on a trajectory of growth and development that will cut across government at all levels to deliver on quality road infrastructure development due to well understood policy decisions reached and implemented.

Your attendance at this meeting is a testament of the general commitment and resolve of all stakeholder to ensuring that government  policies, programmes and projects are achieved through collaboration by all levels of Government.

I therefore welcome you to this epoch making occasion and call for useful and objective contributions to deliberations on implementation status  documents presented by all the stakeholders on the decisions reached at Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

Thanks and God Bless