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Nigeria: States, LGs Get Approval to Set Up APRM Panels
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This Day (Lagos)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Juliana Taiwo
Abuja
Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday gave approval to states and local government councils across the country to set up working committees for the implementation of national plan of action for the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
The national plan of action for APRM is government's response in addressing the weaknesses identified in the course of the recent country's self assessment review. Briefing State House Correspondents after the four-hour meeting chaired by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the Minister of State for Information and Communications, Ibrahim Nakande, said the Council was keen on making the APRM a project for every Nigerian. Nakande in company of the Minister of Planning, Senator Sanusi Daggash and the Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources, Ademola Seriki, disclosed that Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and civil society groups are also encouraged to set up similar working committees so as to assist the government see through the objectives of APRM. He said President Yar'Adua is billed to travel to Egypt in July to attend a meeting of Heads of State during which performance reports collated from participating countries will be tabled for deliberations.
The APRM is the flagship programme of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) initiated by African heads of state to promote good governance.
It monitors the indices of quality governance by various African governments.According to the minister, that meeting will address "the critical mass of the entire review will be done on country to country basis".
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Also with him at the briefing were the Minister of National Planning, Sanusi Daggash, and minister of state for Agriculture, Ademola Seriki.
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