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Former Rivers State Governor, Nyeso Wike, is the first Minister for Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from Southern Nigeria since 1976, as there is optimism that he would use his wealth of experience to boost infrastructure in the seat of power.
The last Southerner to hold the position was Mobolaji Ajose Adeogun, who was minister of FCT from 1976 to 1979 and there has been a total of 16 persons to the head of the city of power.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday unveiled the lists of his ministers.
It was noted that the names of a former governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-rufai, a former national women leader of the All Progressives Congress, Stella Okotete and a ministerial nominee from Taraba state, Danladi Abubakar were missing.
Analysts are sanguine that Wike, who is in familiar territory being a former governor, will provide infrastructure and social amenities and transform FCT to a mega city that its founding fathers wanted.
Here under are some the achievements of Wike when he was governor of Rivers State:
1. Establishment of Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas, Bonny.
2. Establishment of Faculty of Law, University of Port Harcourt.
3. Construction of Faculty of Biological Science Building, University of Port Harcourt
4. Special Intervention for Federal College of Education, Technical, Omoku for key projects
5. On-going construction of Special Vocational School for Boys at Ogu/Bolo LGA
6. Construction of Junior Model College in Ikwerre LGA
7. Complete rehabilitation and equipping of 22 Existing Secondary Schools in all three Senatorial Districts of Rivers State
8. Distribution of over 4million free textbooks and resource materials to basic educational institutions in Rivers State
9. Training of over 20,000 teachers and basic education administrators in Rivers State
10. Many Rivers indigenes offered appointments in several Federal Ministry of Education Parastatals
11. Many Rivers State indigenes on several Federal scholarship programmes
12. Siting of National Teachers Institute, NTI, Data Centre in Port Harcourt
13. Siting of National Open University of Nigeria study centre in Port Harcourt
14. Rehabilitation of classrooms, laboratories and hostels at Federal Government College, Port Harcourt
15. Rehabilitation of classrooms, laboratories and hostels at Federal Government Girls College, Abuluoma
16. Rehabilitation of classrooms, hostels and workshops at Federal Science and Technical College, Ahaoda
17. Construction of Electronic Library, Federal Government College, Port Harcourt
18. Construction of Electronic Library, Federal Government Girls College, Abuluoma
19. Special TETFUND High Impact Development Fund of N1billion to University of Port Harcourt
20. Appointment of several Rivers State indigenes as members of Federal Ministry of Education parastatals
21. Several duly registered Rivers born contractors for the first time benefitted from Federal Ministry of Education Contracts for key projects
22. Over N1billion grant to University of Port Harcourt from the World Bank for scientific research
Special Intervention Projects at State-owned Polytechnic, Bori
Special Intervention Projects at State-owned Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni