Gusau — United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has commended Zamfara State government for its efforts in the area of health-care delivery to women and children.

The commendation was made by USAID representative, Dr Waheed Matta, when she paid a courtesy visit to the state Deputy Governor, Mukhtari Ahmed Anka, at the Government House in Gusau.

She said the Agency is impressed with the successes recorded by the government so far, adding that what has been achieved and the commitments shown by the state government necessitated the visit.

According to her, USAID will continue to collaborate and support the government in the implementation of their Partner Access Programmes.

"We have been around and I have seen King Fah'd Ibn Abdulaziz Women and Children Hospital and General Hospital. I was really impressed with what is on ground. With what we have seen, I know there is hope, and the reason for the hope is that I see government's commitments to improve the lots of the people."

In his response, Anka said government is doing its best to ensure that women and children are giving much attention in the area of health and the gesture will be extended to 14 local government areas across the state.In a related development, the government of Ukraine is to collaborate with the Zamfara state government in the areas of job creation and skills acquisition for the benefit of the people of the state. This was disclosed by Ambassador of Ukraine to Nigeria, Oleg Skoropad when he paid a courtesy visit to Zamfara State deputy governor, Alhaji Mukhtari Ahmed in Gusau. The ambassador said his country will offer useful inputs on how the state government can develop its industries as well as how to modernise the agricultural sector."In our university, we have specialists from Nigeria and Ukraine is working with them for the benefit of two countries. Moreover, today we have businessmen conducting their businesses in this state. They were here two years ago and this is the biggest opportunities regarding raw materials, production of fertiliser, production of chemicals that are very important not only for this state of Zamfarabut for the whole country," Ambassador Oleg stressed. He said Ukraine university will train expert engineers and specialists from Nigeria who will launch long lasting projects that could give opportunity to the people of Zamfara to be the centre of these industries and it will give the opportunity to produce many industrial and chemical products that will benefit the whole country.