BREAKING: Kwara Names Projects After Tinubu, Rashidi Yekini, Others

Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has approved the naming of some projects after historic figures and leaders....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE➤

Top on the list is the First Lady of Nigeria, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, after whom the multibillion-naira Civil Service Clinic project is to be named.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, hinted that Remi Tinubu would perform the groundbreaking of the project during her official visit to Kwara State this week.

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.

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

Meanwhile, the governor has approved the ICT Centre to be named after former Minister Amina Ndalolo 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 first state secretariat is now to be called Brigadier General David Bamigboye Secretariat to honor the first military administrator of the old Kwara, while the new secretariat is named after Rear Admiral Muhammed Alabi Lawal, who governed the state between 1999 and 2003.

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Kwara State Stadium Complex will now be known as Major-General George Agbazika Innih Stadium Complex in appreciation of his contributions to the state.

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 to date.

Governor Abdulrazaq, similarly, approved that some other important state facilities be named as follows: The Table Tennis Arena is named after Atanda Musa (Manza Musa), who was a national champion in the game in 1979; the Indoor Sports Hall is named after Gabriel Babatunde Ladipo, the first black principal of the Government Technical Training School Ilorin (GTTS), who was regarded as the father of sports in the state; the Squash Court is named after Coach Bolakale Mogaji, executive chairman of the Kwara State Sports Commission, who was the pioneer coach, player, and national champion in squash; and the KFA Academy is named after Coach Usuman Adenuja, the first football coach who took the Kwara Academicals to the final of the Academical Football competition. The Governor was among his products.

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Hostel A of the stadium is named after Salihu Ishola, the first Kwaran Commonwealth Games’ medalist; Hostel B is named after Paralympic badminton bronze medalist Bolaji Eniola; and Hostel C is named after Bola Esan, the first female director of sports. ...CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE➤

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