The National Planning Commission (NPC) says it has worked out plan to boost its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2015. This is contained in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the commission’s Head of Information Unit, Salisu Haiba.
The statement reported the Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, as unveiling the plan at a Town Hall Meeting with the staff of the commission. According to the minister, the plan would soon be sent to the Federal Executive Council for approval. The statement also reported Sulaiman as saying that capacity building and staff welfare would be his priorities. He was quoted as saying, “Between now till the end of my stay as the Minister of National Planning, I will ensure equity, fairness in the privileges enjoyed by staff.”
“Era of favouritism is gone. The era where an officer will attend training up to four times and others not attending even once is over. It will go round.”