BY DANIEL IDONOR

ABUJA-The Federal Government yesterday said henceforth, the newly introduced regime of measurement and evaluation of ministries, departments and agencies,MDAs, of government, using Key Performance Indicators, KPIs, would serve as a standard for assessing performance of ministers.

The Vice President and chairman of National Planning Commission, NPC, Namadi Sambo, who stated this at the validation conference on KPI for Vision 20: 2020 stressed that government was determined to ensure the realization of the set goals in the first national implementation plan covering 2011-2015.

According to Sambo, the recently released measurement and evaluation, M&E, 2010 report conducted by NPC showed that the nation’s economy registered a modest improvement during 2010 with the overall Gross Domestic Product, GDP, growth rate at 7.8 per cent.

It would be recalled that in the M&E report, only three sectors, namely –oil and gas, transportation as well as wholesale and retail trade were able to meet set growth targets while manufacturing sector, utilities (including electricity), and building and construction sectors performed very poorly, in relation to the targets set.