Fed Govt gives Ekiti varsity N2.1b

Federal Government has offered Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti, N2.1 billion as revitalisation fund this year.
Vice Chancellor Prof. Oladipo Aina spoke yesterday at a news conference on the week-long convocation.
He said: “This is besides the N664 million released to the university as Tertiary Education Trust Fund last year.”
Prof. Aina said the money was spent on the building of the Biochemistry laboratory of the College of Health Sciences and the new faculties of Agriculture and Arts.”
The vice chancellor assured that efforts were on to ensure that the
university became residential.
He said: “Although the money for this has not been accessed, I assure you that we will use it to build hostels. We want our students to have the culture of university education, which they cannot get outside the campus.”
Lamenting the poor standard of facilities in most tertiary institutions, Prof. Aina said there was need for the universities to be creative to ensure they generated income internally to augment their monthly subventions from the governments.
He said 5,859 graduates would receive degrees.
The vice chancellor said there had been substantial progress in infrastructure in the last few years, adding that the university had produced about 55,000 alumni in the last 32 years.
Said he: “They are not only our alumni, some of them are doing well in their chosen careers. The enabling peace and new lease of life on campus is most noticeable and gratifying with the restructuring of the university’s security department.
“This year’s convocation is scheduled for between March 24 and 29. We expect it to be hitch free, given the arrangements and strategies in place.”