Bauchi State Government has said it will sell the N3 billion aircraft purchased by the administration of former governor, Ahmed Adamu Mu'azu.

The Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Aminu Hammayo, said this yesterday while speaking with newsmen at a roundtable discussion with stake holders as part of the preparation of the 2013 budget of the state.

He said "since the previous administration purchased the aircraft, we continue to pay money for it, they did not pay the money and we will continue to pay until the end of 2012."

Hammayo said "when one goes with digitalization and modernization, maintaining the aircraft will make the state to operate at a loss. When we complete the payment, we will sell the aircraft and channel the money to other projects that will better the living condition of Bauchi people."

The commissioner said government had reverted the prices of visit to Yankari Game Reserve to its old rate in order to encourage tourism, adding that it was committed to improving facilities in the game reserve in the 2013 budget.

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Bauchi — Bauchi State government has awarded contract for the construction of a 300-bed specialist hospital in Bauchi at the cost of N2.5 billion.

State Commissioner for Health Dr Sani Abubakar Malami said a ministerial briefing in Bauchi yesterday that 70 per cent down payment of N1. 8 billion has been made and the contractor mobilized to site.

The commissioner said the need to establish the hospital followed conversion of the state specialist hospital to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital and that the specialist hospital would improve the existing health facilities across the state.

Government, according to him, expended a lot of money to renovate, upgrade and standardize general hospitals in the state, saying the administration spent N97 million on provision of boreholes and power generating sets in each general hospital in the state.

via allAfrica.com.

Bauchi state government has reiterated its determination to improve agriculture in the state by awarding contract worth over N1billion for the supply of chemicals for the blending of fertilisers for this year’s farming season.

The Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Tasiu Muhammad, disclosed this while briefing newsmen yesterday in Bauchi.

He said the chemicals would be supplied to the state fertilizer blending company to enable it produce 16,000 metric tonnes of liquid fertilizer for farmers during this year’s farming season.

Muhammad said the fertilisers would then be sold to farmers in the state at 50 per cent federal government subsidy through the e-wallet system introduced last year.

He said the state government had concluded plans to provide 66 tractors, adding that already Styer Company in the state had been mandated to produce new brand 22 tractors for farmers’ use during the season.