UNICEF, Taraba Govt. award contract to revamp 11 PHCs
PHCs
By Gabriel Yough
Jalingo, Dec 18, 2025 (NAN) UNICEF and the Taraba Government, on Friday, awarded contracts for the revamping of 11 Primary Healthcare centres (PHCs) in six Local Government Areas in the state, with funding from the Global Fund.
Speaking at the event in Jalingo, the Chief of UNICEF, Bauchi Field Office, Dr Nuzhat Rafique, urged the contractors to carry out their assignments with honesty, dedication and professionalism.
Rafique said the official handover of selected primary healthcare facilities by the Taraba Government to UNICEF, through the Commissioner for Health, Dr Bondiya Buma, signified an important collaboration to save the lives of mothers and children.
She charged the chairmen of the benefitting councils to take responsibility for the projects by ensuring quality delivery and timely completion to enhance maternal health.
“This is more than just a construction work, it means saving the lives of mothers and children and all of us must take it seriously,” she said.
Rafique emphasised that contractors must justify the confidence reposed in them by delivering quality projects that would have significant impact on women and children in the benefitting communities and the state at large.
She named the benefitting LGAs as Ardo-Kola, Bali, Gassol, Karim-Lamido, Sardauna and Zing.
In a remark, the commissioner thanked the Global Fund for its support to Taraba and praised UNICEF for ensuring transparency in the contractor selection process.
He affirmed the State Government’s commitment to providing an enabling environment for contractors to complete the projects within the stipulated time frame.
Buma also appealed to facility managers to cooperate with the contractors to ensure timely completion, saying that communities in the state stood to benefit immensely from the intervention.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary, Taraba Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Nuhu Tukura, lauded UNICEF and the Global Fund for their continued support.
Tukura urged the media to sustain coverage of the State Government’s programmes, particularly in the health sector.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project, being implemented by UNICEF, with funding from the Global Fund, is expected to be completed by March 2026. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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Edited by Sam Oditah