KADUNA TARGETS ₦120BN IGR IN 2026 — KADIRS CHAIRMAN. (PHOTO).
Kaduna Targets ₦120bn IGR In 2026 — KADIRS Chairman Kaduna State has set an Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) target of ₦120 billion for the 2026 fiscal year, with the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) expected to play a central role in achieving the target. The Executive Chairman of KADIRS, Jerry Adams, FCTI, FNIM, FCE, CNA, disclosed this during the Service’s Annual Performance Review, Work Plan, and Strategic Retreat. He explained that although the state government approved ₦74 billion as KADIRS’ official revenue target, the Service raised its internal benchmark to ₦80.09 billion to motivate staff to exceed expectations. He further stated that the proposed 2026 budget by the Kaduna State Planning and Budget Commission stands at ₦117.28 billion, with KADIRS expected to generate ₦74.28 billion, while Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) are projected to generate ₦43.24 billion. According to Adams, the retreat was convened to strengthen implement...
Alhaji Lai Mohammed,has said the MoU between the National Council for Arts and Culture {NCAC} and the Bank of Industry {BoI},which makes available 300 million Naira loan for stakeholders in the Creative Industry,will create 200,000 jobs in the Sector.The Minister said this in Abuja today friday when the Director General of the Council,Otunba Olusegun Runsewe,presented to him the MoU,which was signed earlier in the day.''I have been reliably informed that top on the list of the benefits that will accrue from this landmark MoU is that it will create over 200,000 jobs for the sector.This is epochal,and it is in line with one of the cardinal programmes of this administration,which is job creation and empowerment.''-Lai Mohammed.Alhaji Mohammed said the MoU will equally enhance the capacity of producers of cultural products and services to work towards attaining the standard of modern practice in the packaging of their cultural products,to enable them compete favourably at the global markets and earn the nation's Artists a decent living.The NCAC DG acknowledged the leadership role of the Minister,particularly in leveraging on the unique potential of the creative Industry to drive the diversification of the economy away fro oil. ''Today,we have come to make a history-making presentation to the Honourable Minister.Today happens to be a day that will create a change and we are going to tell our story the way it should have been told some feww years ago,''-Otunba.The Minister used the occasion to decorate some journalists with a special pn=in with the inscription: ''Our Culture,Our Pride'',as part of a conscious strategy to mobilise the media to promote the nation's Creative Industry.One more photo below.
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