THE INTENSIFIED REPORT

  The minister of water resource  Engineer Suleiman H. Adamu       The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the augmentation and variation for Tada Shonga Irrigation Project in Kwara state, raising the total cost to N10.18bn.  The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, who briefed State House Correspondents in Abuja after the FEC meeting chaired by President Muhamadu Buhari, said the abandoned project which started in 2010, had the completion period of 36 months.  Adamu, who said the ministry of agriculture made it a priority project because of its huge potential for irrigation, especially for rice production, added that the variation had increased the size of the project from 1,500 hectares to 2,200 hectares of irrigation.  He said the variation also included two-megawatt solar power plant to replace the diesel power plant that was in the original design because diesel is expensive, stressing that irrigation system will be unsustainable with

The removal of all heads of the three media  houses owned by the state has been approved by Kwara state Governor Abdulrahaman Abdulrasaq. The Herald newspaper, Radio Kwara and Kwara Television Service are the Media organisations involved in the shake-up. In a statement signed by the commissioner for communications, Alhaji Murtala Olarewaju and was made available to newsmen in Ilorin on Wednesday directed the General Managers of the affected organisations to hand over the property  to the most senior officer in the establishment. Governor Abdulrazaq, according to the statement, while thanking the former General Managers “directed that the most senior officer in the three media houses should take over pending the appointment of substantive Chief Executive Officers for the media houses.” The media organisations were on the verge of collapse towards the end of the tenure of the last administration in the state. However, they resumed their services shortly after t