{"id":43866,"date":"2015-11-18T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=43866"},"modified":"2015-11-18T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:20:08","slug":"senate-approves-200-world-bank-loan-for-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/senate-approves-200-world-bank-loan-for-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves $200 world bank loan for Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447856990871_14462\" class=\"yiv5053014437MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Senate has approved the $200 million loan request for the Lagos State government, following deliberation of the report of Ad-hoc Committee on Foreign and Local debt to which the request was referred a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447856990871_14470\" class=\"yiv5053014437MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447856990871_14469\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447856990871_14468\" style=\"color: #060606; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">In a motion for the consideration of the report, Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC Kano South) said that the Senate did consider the Report of Ad-Committee\u00a0on Local and Foreign Debts for Special approval of Lagos State Development Policy Operation (DPO) loan budget support of US$200 Million from the World Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #060606; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"1511b3143af21197_more\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447856990871_14471\">Gaya explained that the loan would go a long way developing the state\u2019s infrastructure and in generating jobs for the teeming unemployed in Lagos State.<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447856990871_14476\"><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447856990871_14477\">Senator Danjuma Goje, however, warned that the loan should not be taken just for the sake of it, but should be expended judiciously and purposefully so that when it was being paid back people could point to the infrastructures it was used for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Senate President, my own is to express caution. 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