Just In: Kwara gov names Unity flyover after Emir of Ilorin
The Kwara State governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has named the newly constructed Unity Flyover after the Emir of Ilorin Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari CFR
According to X handle of the Kwara State government @followKWSG, the gesture was to honour the support of Mai Martaba for the administration, his peaceful reign, his fatherly role in the Emirate and beyond, and his support for development.
The Informant247 reports that Governor AbdulRazaq had earlier approved the naming of the multibillion naira Civil Service Clinic project after Nigerian First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu in a renaming of some old and new legacy projects after historic figures and leaders in the State.
According to a statement by Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, the old clinic, which is now being reconstructed from scratch to emerge as a multistory health facility will be unveiled by Senator Tinubu as part of her official visit to Kwara State between January 28 and 30, 2025, along with the ICT Centre built under the Renewed Hope Initiative of her office at the Kwara State University of Education.
The statement furthered that the road leading to the flyover is now to be called the Tafawa Balewa Road, a gesture in honour of Nigeria’s former Prime Minister, who was killed in the January 1966 military coup.
However, the Governor has also approved the renaming of ICT Centres after former Minister Amina Ndalolo, a jewel 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 statement reads, “The first state secretariat is now to be called the Brigadier General David Bamigboye Secretariat in honour of the first military administrator of the old Kwara State, while the new secretariat is named after Rear Admiral Muhammed Alabi Lawal who governed the state between 1999 and 2003.
