KWARA GOVERNOR NAMES PROJECTS TO HONOUR PRESIDENT’S WIFE, EX-GOV BAMIGBOYE, INNIH, LAWAL, RASHIDI YEKINI, OTHERS 27-01-25
By Sadiq Aminu Wife of the President Senator Oluremi Tinubu is among important personalities that some old and new projects will be named in their honour in Kwara state .
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, says that the multibillion naira Civil Service Clinic project would be name after Senator Oluremi Tinubu
According to it the old clinic is now being reconstructed from scratch to emerge as a multistorey health facility.
The statement says Senator Tinubu will perform the groundbreaking ceremony of the project as part of her official visit to Kwara state between January 28 and 30, 2025.
It explains that other projects to be inaugurated along with the ICT Centre, built under the Renewed Hope Initiative of her office at the Kwara State University of Education, included the Unity Flyover, ultramodern Intensive Care Unit, Executive Ward, and General Tunde Idiagbon Flyover.
Ajakaye says the road leading to the flyover is now to be called the Tafawa Balewa Road, a gesture in honour of Nigeria’s former Prime Minister, who was killed in the January 1966 military coup.
It says the governor has also approved for the ICT Centre to be named after former Minister Amina Ndalolo, a jewel of Kwara North, while the executive ward at the Kwara State Teaching Hospital is named after the late prominent physician and politician Dr. Amuda Aluko.
The statement notes that the first state secretariat is now 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.
It futher points that the Kwara State Stadium Complex will now be known as Major-General George Agbazika Innih Stadium Complex in appreciation of his contributions to the state.
It maintain that the main bowl of the stadium is named after the late Rashidi Yekini, a football legend renowned for scoring Nigeria’s first World Cup goal and the country’s highest goal scorer till date.