Shettima commissions tailoring plaza for 300 women

Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima has commissioned a government-built Tailoring and Fashion Design Plaza with 116 shops equiped with sewing machines for 300 women who include dozens recently trained by an Abuja based Vodi Tailoring and Fashion Design Institute on the sponsorship of the Borno State Government.

The plaza is located in Lamisula, a densely populated area in Maiduguri. Shops, comprising 60 single and 28 doubles, were allocated to groups of the trained women while sewing and knitting machines were presented to them to start their businesses.

A statement from the governor’s spokesman, Isa Umar Gusau, said Shettima directed that payment of one year rent be waved for the women while they were to pay subsequent rents at subsidized rates of N20,000 per annum.

In another development, Governor Kashim Shettima, Mr Bill Gates and Alhaji Aliko Dangote yesterday held a video conference for live contributions in 2017 midterm review of routine immunization that aims at polio eradication across the 27 local government areas of Borno State.

Gates joined the discussions from the United States, Dangote joined from Lagos while Shettima spoke from Maiduguri in the midst of stakeholders that include officials of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency and partners from agencies of the United Nations and others involved in supporting immunization in Nigeria.

The Borno State Primary Healthcare Development Agency in Maiduguri was used at the convergence point where officials from Borno State made presentations on successes and challenges so far recorded in 2017 on immunization coverage in the state.

Tagged, ‘Midterm Review Meeting on Strengthening Routine Immunization in Borno State’, the conference agreed on ways to improve Immunization coverage with commitments reaffirmed by all stake-holders.