Efforts are being intensified to complete six hundred and fifty bed hostel being built by Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, in 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 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, taxed the school authority to maintain the structure for durability.
The NDDC boss regretted that rainy season affected that 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 to sponsor research programmes that would bring solutions to issues affecting the region and nation in general.
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 internal roads and ICT center provision in the school.
He pledged collaborating with NDDC in conducting CBT scholarship exams, using the ICT Center.
The MD in company of management staff also inspected 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.
