As part of its efforts to improve maternal and child health outcomes under Subsidy Re-Investment & Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Project, the Abia state government has inaugurated an eight- man State Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Steering Committee.

Bayelsa State Government has announced plans to develop a flood master plan in the State as part of measures to safeguard the environment and prevent the recurrence of the 2012 flood disaster.

The Federal Government has said that owing to its Backward Integration Policy, the country now has an installed capacity of 39.5 million metric tons of cement production. This was made known by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday at the Line II Ground-Breaking ceremony of UNICEM Cement Factory, Mfamosing, Calabar, Cross River State.