FG to launch app for project monitoring

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Minister of State for Budget and National Planning Clem Agba has said the Federal Government is developing an app to monitor projects.

This, he said, was to bridge the trust gap between the government and citizens.

According to him, a National Development plan that will involve all states of the federation and local governments is being worked on.

Speaking during the tour of the Lagos State facilities and ongoing projects in the state, as part of the 2016 71 Resolution of the National Economic Council Strategy for States Economic Growth, the minister hailed the Eko 360 data Warehousing and Analytical Platform, which covers the T.H.E.M.E.S development agenda.

He said the platform would help in providing data in the area of business development, health, agriculture, food security, education among other services.

The minister said: “We are working on a national development plan of which all the states and local governments are involved in the exercise. Like you know, the economic recovery plan 2017-2020 expires this month. We are already developing a succession plan that will follow suit. Also, the Nigerian vision 2020 ends this year. We are using that institutional arrangement to put in place a Nigerian Agenda 2030. Lagos is part of that plan. There is no Nigeria without the state and local governments.”