By Festus Fifen

In response to agitations from regional political blocks across the country, President Bola Tinubu has signed into law bills to accelerate development across geo-political zones in Nigeria.

This the President has done by assenting to the North-West Development Commission (Establishment) Bill, 2024, and the South-East Development Commission (Establishment) Bill, 2023.

In a statement from the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President Ajuri Ngelale, The North-West Development Commission is set up to facilitate the reconstruction of roads, houses, and business premises destroyed by multidimensional crisis, as well as tackle poverty, literacy level, ecological problems, and any other related environmental or development challenges in North-West states.

In addition, the statement says, the South-East Development Commission is established to ensure the reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads, houses, and other infrastructural damages suffered by the zone, as well as tackle ecological problems, and other related environmental or developmental challenges in South-East states.

President Tinubu believes in building the nation on the fulcrum of fairness, equity, and unity; hence, he is committed to ensuring equitable development, inclusive governance, and the provision of qualitative services to all Nigerians — no matter where they reside — while knitting even more tightly together the national fabric.

With the assent , we now have a Total of four regional development commissions nationwide, they are the Niger-Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), North-East Development Commission NEDC, North-West Development Commission (NEDC) and South-East Development Commission (SEDC)