Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Thursday launched newly built medical doctors quarters and 78 shops built by Borno State Governor Babgana Zulum in Maiduguri.
The quarters comprise 78 units of three bedroom apartments from 13 blocks of two-storey buildings with each block having six apartments. The quarters was fully fenced, landscaped, flowered and provided with sporting facilities and playground.
The vice president also commissioned a shopping complex with 78 shops that are meant to be allocated to operators of small and medium businesses.
Osinbajo was Borno State to launch the 30th edition of the Federal Government’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Clinic.
He used the opportunity to commission four out of the over 500 projects executed by Governor Zulum.
The VP arrived at Maiduguri around 11am and was received by Governor Zulum alongside Senator Kashim Shettima, national and state assembly members, other top government officials and party leaders.
Before continuing with commissioning of Zulum’s projects, the Vice President stopped over to address MSME’s at the Maiduguri GSM Market and gave them assurance of Buhari’s commitment towards supporting and empowering them
Osinbajo then paid another visit to the Northeast Children Learning Centre, which is a donor-funded primary to secondary school institution, privately initiated by the Vice President in March 2017 during his 60th birthday, to provide homes, education and entrepreneurship skills to 1,500 children orphaned by insurgency across the northeast. Osinbajo, who had visited the school on previous visits to Borno, interacted with orphans schooling at the centre.
Returning to commissioning, the Vice President is expected to unveil a mega size senior secondary school named after one of Borno’s foremost personalities, late Alhaji Mai Deribe.
The fully fenced, landscaped and flowered school is made up of 30 classrooms for at least 1,200 students, three laboratories, administrative block and sporting facilities.
Vice President Osinbajo will also commission Gonidamgari community road which passes communities that include Abbaganaram, Railway terminus, Borno Aluminium, down to Borno flour mill junction in Maiduguri.