Buratai hails NAOWA for executing infrastructural projects
NEWS DIGEST–The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has commended the Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA) for embarking on the construction and rehabilitation of critical infrastructural projects such as schools, and skills acquisition centres, among others, across several Army institutions and barracks in the country.
He said NAOWA’s numerous interventions especially in the area of infrastructural provision, which are geared towards uplifting and enhancing the lives of the Army officers’ wives, children and the general public is unparalleled.
The COAS, while pledging the Army’s support to the activities of the association, encouraged the NAOWA members to sustain their beneficial humanitarian activities and programmes.
Buratai spoke at the commissioning ceremony of NAOWA College in Post Service Housing Estate, Abuja.
The College, located at Kurudu, a suburb of the FCT, was built and furnished by NAOWA.
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Facilities at the brand new College include 18 classrooms, 300-capacity Assembly Hall, Conference Room, two staff room, and Principal office.
Others include two Vice Principal offices, sick bay, computer laboratory, Admin office, science laboratories, and toilet facilities.
Chairperson of NAOWA, Mrs. Ummul Khultum Tukur Buratai, disclosed that since the establishment of NAOWA, their association has been in the vanguard of provision of community-development projects, and carefully designed welfare programmes that are targeted at women, children, youths and less privileged in the society.
“We have achieved modest progress in establishing developmental projects in Abuja, and across other divisions of the Nigerian Army.
“Also, the NAOWA women and youths development initiative programme launched in 2016 is yielding successes, as more than 500 trainees of our programme within barracks and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps have been empowered for a better living.
“Through this initiative, NAOWA has provided solar boreholes, renovated community schools, and furnished many rural hospitals with modern hospital equipment.
“Equally, NAOWA, in a bid to reduce maternal and child mortality, recently established a specialist hospital in Abuja,” she said.
