A bill creating the North-Central Development Commission, or NCDC, has been signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The North-Central Development Commission which is the primary agency responsible for evaluating, coordinating, harmonising, and reporting on all intervention programs and initiatives by the Federal Government, any of its Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), States, and other Development Partners, as well as for the execution of all programs and initiatives for the North Central states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe.
During a Senate chamber session on Tuesday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio made this announcement without specifying when president Tinubu signed the bill into law.
He was hopeful that the creation of NCDC will make progress at the local level.
Godswill said, “Let me also inform my colleagues that Mr President has also assented to the North-Central Development Commission establishment bill 2024, 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,” he added.