OWERRI – The Federal Government has allocated the sum of N1.5 billion to the Imo State University, Owerri, for ”iconic” projects, says Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, the Minister of Education,
Shekarau disclosed this on Tuesday in Owerri during his impact assessment visit to the school, where he was represented by Mrs Viola Onwuliri, the Minister of State for Education.
Shekarau said that the Federal Government was committed to transforming the education sector.
He said that that President Goodluck Jonathan wanted to ensure that projects meant for higher institutions were spread evenly, irrespective of the party ruling in the host state.
”The Federal Government has allocated IMSU the sum of 1.5 billion for iconic projects.
”We will ensure that education in Nigeria is something other nations will envy and copy; we want students to reciprocate FG’s efforts by shunning cultism and exam malpractice.
”President Goodluck Jonathan has repeatedly said he is not partisan in terms of distribution of projects to institutions,” he said.
On his part, Malam Suleiman Bogoro, the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), said the fund had committed the sum of N4 billion to IMSU within the last seven months.
Bogoro said that aside infrastructure development, the fund was also paying attention to human development through capacity building.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of IMSU, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, commended TETfund for sustaining the tempo of development in higher institutions since 1992.
He said that through TETFund, the school was able to build e-library and an ICT centre with 248 work stations.
According to the vice chancellor, a three-storey science laboratory TETFund project is also ongoing.
The minister later inspected the completed and ongoing projects. (NAN)
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