 The Gombe State government has procured 30,000 assorted fingerlings for distribution to farmers in the state to boost fish production. This is contained in the report of a committee set up to assess government’s performance in the agriculture sector in the last one year presented to Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo on Thursday in Gombe.
Presenting the report, the Chairman of the Committee, Alhaji Alhass...
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Yobe state governor Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam has approved N4.2 bn for the execution of various projects, the Commissioner for Information Alhaji Goni Fika has said.
Speaking after the Executive Council Meeting at the Government House, Damaturu, Fika said the council had approved the construction of auxiliary facilities at the ultra modern hospital Damaturu and the drilling of 26 boreholes with complete package in the 24 constituencies.
He said the council has also approved the payment of WAEC, NECO registration fees e for 30,537 candidates as well as the payment of school fees for Yobe state indigenes studying at Nigerian Turkish International college for 2011/2012 session.
Also approved are the constructions of intra-state and township roads, in Gaidam and Garin Alkali, construction of Office complex for Ministry of Water Resources and procurement of additional tricycle machines (Keke NAPEP) for Youth empowerment in the state.
As part of efforts towards strengthening healthcare delivery in Kwara State through 500 metre access to quality health care in line with Shared Prosperity, the State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has reaffirmed the commitment of his administration to rehabilitate all existing general hospitals in the state before the end of his tenure. He said that once the on-going rehabilitation of Ilorin, Offa, Share, Omu-Aran and Kaiama hospitals is completed, work on another five general hospitals will commence, adding an additional new general hospital is to be constructed annually for the next three years.
The governor gave the assurance while receiving a medical team of the Kwara State Association of Nigeria, North America (KSANG) in Ilorin over the weekend. Alhaji Ahmed who said that a law to guarantee proper funding model of a state wide comprehensive health insurance scheme in the State is under-way, explained that the law will ensure that the health insurance scheme, presently on pilot stage in parts of the state, would be on firm footing.
"Our administration's health policy is driven by the understanding that qualitative health care is critical to national development", the Governor said. Governor Ahmed solicited the partnership of Kwarans in diaspora in capacity building for health personnel through the provision of qualitative health education. The leader of the KSANG team, Dr Olawale Suleiman said his team treated over One thousand five hundred patients during its 4-day programme while over 600 health personnel benefited from its health education programme.
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The Oyo State government is to construct 624 housing units at Km 22 Estate, Iwo Road, Ibadan, through a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement.
The new estate comprises 122 units of semi-detached two-bedroom bungalows; 95 units of semi-detached three-bedroom bungalows, eight units of semi-detached two-bedroom Terrance houses in 20 blocks, among others.
Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu, commissioner for lands, housing and survey, Oyo State, who disclosed this at a press briefing on the activities of his ministry in Ibadan, said the housing corporation had cleared about five hectares of land for the Km 22 Estate project.
Omodewu also disclosed that his ministry had designed the prototype drawings and bill of quantities for the construction of 150 housing units by direct labour, adding that the state government had completed the design and bill of quantities for the construction of additional 25 units of four-bedroom bungalows (type B) at Owode Estate in Ibadan.
Anambra governor Peter Obi has said that efficient inland water transportation is necessary in the transformation of the national economy to actualise Vision 20 20 20.
Obi said this when the management team of the Federal Inland Waterways Authority paid him a courtesy visit at government house Awka. He said that the country needed effective water transportation at this time as a critical component in strengthening the entire national transport system and easy movement of goods and people from one part of the country to another.
Obi regretted that the absence of functional water transportation had placed a heavy burden on road transportation, leading to early collapse of many roads across the country.
The governor said that Onitsha as the hub of commercial and economic activity required direct transportation of goods from the various ports across the country through transhipment. He called the attention of the authorities to the indiscriminate allocation of water fronts in Onitsha to traders to build shops and other structures that threaten the environment and destroy the state government’s beautification programme and urged them to recover the area.
The managing director of the authority, Mr. Ahmed Yar’adua, said the country was blessed with over 3, 000 klms of waterways covering over 28 states and said that if well harnessed would boost effective water transportation in the country.
Yar’adua explained that the lower Niger had been dredged and could now take barges from Baro, Lokoja, Oguta and other ports, while the Onitsha water port had been rehabilitated and awaiting commissioning by the president.
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