The Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has commissioned a one billion naira college of the engineering building at the Kwara State University (KWASU), as part of activities to mark the state’s golden jubilee anniversary.
The governor while commissioning said “It became imperative in view of government’s decision to prioritise functional education and the resolve to make Kwara state one of the country’s most economically developed and industrialised states.
According to the governor, the first phase of the college was designed to be a model one aimed at providing a sound starting point for engineering courses in the university while the second phase of the building would provide an environment for research and engineering innovation.
“The human capital requirement for economic growth and diversification of our economy can only be achieved through skills training based on the needs of our economy,” he emphasised.
The governor noted that no economy can develop and prosper without relevant skills, vibrant informal sector and industrialisation which requires thriving entrepreneurship as well as skilled engineers and scientists.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Dr Amina Ahmed said the project was awarded at an initial contract sum of nearly 700 million naira but revised to over 1 billion naira due to the downturn of the national economy and the consequent hike in foreign exchange.
Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor, Professor Abdulrasheed Na’allah said “Kwasu Council and Management have complemented the investment of government in this building by ensuring that superior academic staff were recruited from around the world into the engineering college.
With the first of its type academic programme of aeronautical and astronautically engineering, and five other programmes, (electrical & electronics, Agric engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering and materials science engineering) Kwasu is set to launch admission recruitment into Kwasu from West African countries.”
The governor assured that the second phase of the school of engineering will soon commence.
