Kwara gov names projects after prominent Nigerians

Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has approved the naming of some old and new legacy projects in the state after prominent personalities and leaders, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, revealed yesterday in a statement.

Top in the list is the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, after whom the multibillion naira Civil Service Clinic project is named.

The old clinic is being reconstructed to become a multi-storey health facility.

Senator Tinubu will perform the groundbreaking ceremony of the huge project as part of her official visit to Kwara State between January 28 and 30.

Along with the ICT Centre built under the Renewed Hope Initiative of her office at the Kwara State University of Education, the wife of the President will also inaugurate a few legacy projects of the governor such as the Unity Flyover, ultramodern Intensive Care Unit, Executive Ward, and Gen. Tunde Idiagbon Flyover, earlier named after the late disciplinarian leader.

The road leading to the flyover is now to be called Tafawa Balewa Road, a gesture in honour of Nigeria’s former Prime Minister, who was killed in the January 1966 military coup.

The governor has, meanwhile, approved that the ICT Centre be named after former Minister Amina Ndalolo; while the executive ward at the Kwara State Teaching Hospital is named after the late physician and politician Dr Amuda Aluko.

The first state secretariat is to be called the Brigadier General David Bamigboye Secretariat in honour of the first military administrator of the old Kwara State, while the new secretariat is named after Rear Admiral Muhammed Alabi Lawal who governed the state between 1999 and 2003, among others.