With just about a thousand days to the expiration of the United Nations set, Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the chairman, House Committee on MDG, Alhassan Doguwa, has stated that Nigeria is on course to meet the goals before the expiration of the intervention in December, 2015.
Rep. Doguwa gave this assurance during an oversight visit to some of the MDGs projects in Niger state.
Mr Doguwa, who is also the chairman network of African parliamentarians on the attainment of the MDGs in Africa, applauded the Niger state government for the timely implementation of the 2012 projects of the scheme.
The committee members were received by the officials of the state government at Dikko in Suleja local government area of the state for the inspection and commissioning of the MDG projects recently completed by the state government.
Mr Doguwa in company of other members of the committee commissioned the Primary Health Centre in Dikko.
The Director General of the Niger state MDGs; Ditijo Aliyu assured the committee that the projects scattered across the 25 local government areas of the state will be well utilized.
The committee members then paid a courtesy visit on the state Governor, Muazu Aliyu, who wondered why the committee is undertaking the oversight function at the twilight of the scheme.
