Efforts are being intensified to complete the six hundred and fifty-bed hostel being built by the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, in the Niger Delta University (NDU), Amasoma, Bayelsa State.
Dr Ogbuku, who made this known during the inspection of the project, stated that the hostel would be inaugurated soon as part of the second anniversary of the present management of the commission.
The MD who described the hostel as a state-of-the-art edifice with modern facilities and Internet-enabled, tasked the school authority to maintain the structure for durability.
The NDDC boss regretted that the rainy season had affected the pace of work across the region, but insisted that efforts were being made to deliver several projects.
According to him, NDDC has invested and would still invest huge funds in educational programmes, scholarships, infrastructure, Copers’ Lodge, teachers’ quarters, among others.
He promised to assist the school in sponsoring research programmes that would bring solutions to issues affecting the region and the nation in general.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the interventionist agency advised NDU to consider converting their diesel-powered Generators to CNG, promising that the Commission would be willing to take up that project.
Dr Ogbuku maintained that completion of abandoned projects across the region was one of the major commitments of the commission, as directed by President Tinubu.
On his part, Vice Chancellor, Niger Delta University, Professor Allen Agih, who expressed happiness over the project, told NDDC Delegation that the student population of the institution was up to twenty-two thousand, but only about three thousand were resident on campus.
Professor Agih appreciated NDDC for the internal roads and ICT centre provision in the school.
He pledged to collaborate with NDDC in conducting CBT scholarship exams, using the ICT Centre.
The MD in the company of management staff also inspected the ongoing fifty-bed space hospital in Amasoma and directed that the Capacity be elevated to a General Hospital status, with at least one hundred and fifty bed spaces.
