President Bola Tinubu has commissioned a 300-bed specialist hospital located at Millennium Square in Kaduna state.

The facility, named the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Specialist Hospital, consists of nine wings, namely; maternal and child health, radiology and imaging, intensive care unit and special care unit.

Speaking at the ceremony, the state governor, Uba Sani, requested President Tinubu’s intervention in building a cancer Centre at the specialist hospital which he said is the ‘only thing missing’ at the facility.

Responding to Sani’s request, Tinubu commended the governor for his projects, assuring him that his intervention request would be granted.

“We’ve witnessed progress. You prioritise people. It is only a far-sighted leader who cares about his people that can establish this for their health care needs. I am very proud of what you are doing,” he said.

“I can assure you that our intervention is not in vain, and we will grant it.”

Tinubu, who arrived in Kaduna on Thursday to commission projects in the state, also conferred the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR, on a former military Governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa (retd.). Tinubu announced this during his one-day working visit.

According to the President, some names were omitted when he first announced names of awardees.

“Let me use this opportunity to correct an omission. One of the people I missed in my June 12 broadcast is Colonel Dangiwa. Let me honour him with CFR.”

Dangiwa was governor of Kaduna state from August 1985 to June 1988 during the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.

After his retirement from the army in 1993, he became a social critic and founded the political party, Movement for Unity and Progress.