The Kwara Government has earmarked N450 million for the construction of the postgraduate school campus of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete.
According to the Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology in the state, Hajiya Aminat Ahmed, who made this known at the official groundbreaking of the project in Ilorin on Tuesday, the project is expected to be delivered within four months.
She said the construction was awarded to Unicontinental Engineering International Company Limited.
Ahmed said that the construction of the campus was a confirmation of the present administration’s commitment toward encouraging scholarship and wider enrolment to those seeking opportunities to educate themselves.
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, in his address, said that the project was borne out of his administration’s flair for human capital development.
The governor said that the establishment of the Post Graduate School was to keep to the resolve to produce quality, skilled and entrepreneurially inclined scholars needed to spearhead a new crop of intellectually sound future leaders.
According to him, the state university, when conceived about eight years ago is designed to be a Multi-Campus University.
