Mustafa Abubukar
18 December 2007
Kwara — Governor Bukola Saraki has said that the pro-posed Kwara State University will begin academic activities in 2008 with the enrolment of the first set of students.
The governor made this remark yesterday while receiving the report of the Technical Committee on the state university at Government House in Ilorin.
The state government pledged to work round-the-clock to ensure the immediate take-off of the project. The government also allocated N500 million as take-off grant in 2008 fiscal budget.
Saraki commended the committee members for their work, disclosing that the Planning and Implementation Committee of the project will be inaugurated later this week.
Presenting the committee's report on the university, the chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Sha'aba Lafiagi said that the committee has made far-reaching recommendations which would help to put the state university on solid, sound and firm footing.
The state's ex-governor, Lafiagi, suggested that the university operate in a multi-campus arrangement with a faculty or college in each of the three senatorial districts of the state to elicit support and sense of belonging.
"It would be cheaper to locate the proposed university on a virgin land with the sum of N500 million .The informed opinion is however in favour of the establishment of a conventional university with bias for science and technology," he said.
In his remark earlier, the State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi, reaffirmed the government's commitment to provide qualitative education.
He said that government's education policy has helped to produce credible students, adding that the indigent students can compete favourably with their counterparts within and outside the country.
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