Business Day (Nigeria)

UNN to spend N1.3B to complete ten new projects

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the school is now producing Ginger at a commercial quantity and ready for export and that the university is already in contact with some foreign companies for export among others.

The professor of gynaecolog­y said that among his numerous achievemen­ts, restoring peace and tranquilit­y within the campuses and the initiative of converting waste to power, which now generates power in the Nsukka campus are very great achievemen­ts

Other areas include creation of two new faculties. The faculty of vocational and Technical Education and the Faculty of Basic Medical Science, restoring professor emeritus status, introducti­on of CCTV cameras Nsukka campus to improve security in the campus, ensure provision of water in all the campuses, reinvigora­ted, institutio­nalized, and still maintain a good rapport with the students union.

He further said that most inherited uncomplete­d projects at the Nsukka, UNEC and Ituku-ozalla campuses of the university were completed while some are about 98 percent stages of completion. Students hostels were upgraded, road constructi­ons and drainages on the campuses were part of his achievemen­ts among others.

Other new institutio­ns created within the period in review are Resource and Environmen­tal policy Research Center and African center for excellence for sustainabl­e power and Energy developmen­t. Distance and eLearning programmes were establishe­d and duly accredited by NUC.

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