By Donatus Nadi, Lafia
The Nasarawa State Geographic Information Service ( NAGIS) said that it has collected  N 871million out of the N3.9billion revenue generated from January to date in the state despite the challenges posed by the Coronaviruspandemic.
Director General of NAGIS, Mr. Sunny Agassi made this known when he led other management team of the agency to defend its 2021 budget proposal before the state House of Assembly Committee on Lands and Survey in Lafia last week.
He said that the generation of the revenue was made possible due to commitment of the staff of the agency, good policies put in place by the team of NAGIS and above the support given by Governor Abdullahi Sule. 
” In  2020, we generated N3.9billion as revenue but as at November, we have collected N871million as revenue.
“As we are all aware, the state or Nigeria was shut down due to COVID-19 and we resumed operation in July.
“Despite that, in 2020 in terms of revenue collection  was the best year in the history of NAGIS.
“We are looking forward to  2021and by God’s grace, we will surpass our 2020 records, ” he said.
Agassi urged the people to pay their grant rent to enable government continue to execute developmental projects across the state.
Earlier, Hon David Maiyaki, the Chairman of the Committee has assured the management of NAGIS of his committee’s support to succeed.
He has commended NAGIS for its efforts in generating revenue to the coffer  of the state government.
“We will continue to support you to succeed and we are urging you to continue in that regards  for the overall development of our state,” the chairman said.
The Chairman also assured the state  government of continued synergy for the overall development of the state.