Senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Uba Sani has commissioned five newly constructed Neighbourhood Sports Centres in Kaduna North, Igabi and Kaduna South Local Governments.
He also commissioned an ICT Centre in Turunku and handed over the project to relevant Kaduna State Government Ministries.
The Senator in a statement said the projects are part of the zonal intervention projects facilitated courtesy of NDIC’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
According to a statement by Senator Sani, the projects were commissioned to create opportunities for the teeming youths of Kaduna State to showcase their talents, realize their full potentials and keep abreast of technological developments as well as tackle poverty and youth unemployment.
Sani in his statement said;
I had the privilege and honour today of commissioning and handing over to relevant Kaduna State Government Ministries the Neighbourhood Sports Centres in Kaduna North, Igabi and Kaduna South Local Governments, as well as the ICT Centre in Turunku.
I facilitated the zonal intervention
projects to create opportunities for the teeming youths of Kaduna State to showcase their talents, realize their full potentials and keep abreast of technological developments.
He expressed;
I was joined at the colourful ceremony by the Kaduna State Commissioner for Youths
& Sport, representatives of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC),
officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Royal Fathers and other critical stakeholders.The completion and handover of the neighborhood centres and ICT Centre is indeed a dream come true. Kaduna State is overflowing with talents in different
sports. If the sports sector is properly harnessed and developed as a business, it has the potential of fundamentally contributing to the fight against poverty
and youth unemployment.
Sani further stated;
Sports is also a tool for building peace and ensuring harmonious existence. Through the neighbourhood centres our
youths will interact effectively, understand each other better and build lasting relationships. The ICT Centre will contribute to the cerammontof tho skills of our youths in information technology.
He added;
The knowledge economy is the future of the world. Our youths must be repositioned to
be globally competitive. The initiation of these projects is a deliberate move to complement the wonderful infrastructural drive of our dynamic and innovative Governor,
Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai.
Meanwhile, Sani while in Chikun Local Government took time to pay homage to the new Esu Chikun, His Highness, Ishaku Yari to congratulate him on his conferment and to also inform him of the intervention projects he facilitated.
