Pace of 8 new projects excites Zulum

Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, was yesterday excited with the progress and quality of eight ongoing capital projects mostly on housing, education and healthcare started last month in the state.

He toured the sites of the projects in parts of Maiduguri and Jere local government areas on Wednesday in the convoy of a few aides during which he directed that all the projects be delivered before May 29, 2020.

Zulum commenced the visits with the University of Maiduguri to inspect the progress of 50 units of one-bedroom houses for junior staff as part of the state government’s intervention to increase staff housing at the university.

The Governor was at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, where he assessed an auditorium with capacity to accommodate 1,080 persons, which is an intervention project being constructed by the state government in fulfillment of a promise following the hospital management’s request.

He was also at the 48-bed Maternity Hospital at Abbaganaram community and another 30-bed expansion work at Yerwa Maternity Hospital to assess the progress of the projects.

Other projects assessed by the governor were construction of new blocks of classrooms at Gwange 2 Primary School and continuation of 60-classrooms Mega School started by the Kashim Shettima administration near the Palace of the Shehu of Borno.

The governor also during the assessment tour, was at a new complex of the Borno State Library Board designed to accommodate 700 readers and researchers, and expressed satisfaction with the quality and level of work at all the projects visited.