{"id":722,"date":"2022-11-28T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/?p=722"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:25:42","slug":"jigawa-constructs-650-rehabilitates-960-solar-motorized-water-schemes-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/2022\/11\/28\/jigawa-constructs-650-rehabilitates-960-solar-motorized-water-schemes-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigawa Constructs 650, Rehabilitates 960 Solar, Motorized Water Schemes in 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Government has constructed over 650 new solar powered, rehabilitated and upgraded 960 existing solar and motorized water schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar made this known while presenting the 2023 appropriation bill to the state House of Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said 4,100 new hand pumps were drilled while about 7,700 were rehabilitated during the period under review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that 250 motorized water schemes were converted to solar-powered in the first six years of his administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On sanitation, the Governor said over 3,700 blocks of VIP Latrines consisting of over 14,800 toilets in schools, communities and other public places were constructed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the government would send a bill to the House of Assembly that would declare the first Saturday of every Month as \u201cSanitation and Hygiene Promotion Day\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Governor Badaru said 16 new General Hospitals were constructed, in addition to upgrading of 35 Basic Health Centers, as well as foreign medical training for many State indigenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, 120 new Senior Secondary Schools, including the three New Mega Schools at Hadejia, Dutse and Kazaure were established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Government has constructed over 650 new solar powered, rehabilitated and upgraded 960 existing solar and motorized water schemes.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}