Onicha-Ugbo Ladies League of Nigeria (OLLON), Aniocha-North Local Government Council, Delta State, recently donated the sum of N2.5 million towards the construction of the Staff Quarters of the Onicha-Ugbo Cottage Hospital.

The association also disclosed that it will re-focus its attention on the Women Development Centre Project.

The President of the Association, Chief Mrs. T.I. Asielue, who made this known while handling a cheque of N2.5 million to the Caretaker Chairman of the Aniocha-North Local Government Council, Chief C.I. Nwawolo, noted that it was the resolve of the association to contribute to the development of their fatherland.

"To this end, two projects were initially chosen, the Women Development Centre' for which the Obi-in-Council had graciously allocated a plot of land along Onicha-Ugbo/Idumuje Ugboko Road.

"Infact, the Centre's building and infrastructure had been planned and the site already surveyed. However, owing to protracted negotiation on the access road to the site, the association decided to shift priority to the second project of building staff quarters in the Cottage Hospital.

"This is because a health care delivery project would serve the greater benefit of our people", she noted.

She revealed that on November 27, 1999, the Cottage Hospital Staff Quarters foundation-laying ceremony was performed by the Deputy Governor of Delta State, Chief B.S. Elue.

Elue was also said to have handed over the N2.5 million modern building to the Care-taker Chairman of Aniocha-North Local Government Council.

The association boss commended the efforts of their husbands, whom she said, urged them to push-on even when it was turning out an impossible task with the economic recession in the country affecting it.