Education: EXCO approves bill to establish Kogi State University, Kabba, transmits to State Assembly .

 

By correspondent in Lokoja.

…plans to raise N15 billion start-up funds 

    

The Kogi State Council on Monday approved a Memo containing the bills for the establishment of KOGI STATE University, Kabb, and other matters connected, 2023 while the State Attorney General was directed to transmit the bill to the State House of Assembly for consideration and passage into Law. 

In a briefing by the State Commissioner for Education, Science,e and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones, he stated that a University Law is one of the prerequisites for the National University Commission (NUC) to recognize and approve any established university in Nigeria. 

He hinted that the State government was working towards ensuring that before the end of the coming weeks, NUC would have approved the State University, adding that the recently inaugurated implementation committee chaired by renowned professor of English Language, Prof.  Olu Obafemi, was working alongside other stakeholders to speed up the process.  

The Commissioner, who used the medium to again clarify the rumor over the conversion of the College of Education Technical, Kabb, or about the location of the University, noted that the news was false and unauthenticated information, describing the information as largely a premonition by some individuals. 

He, however, pointed out that the committee after several considerations concluded that it was more expedient to start the Kogi State University, Kabba at the current site of the College of Education Technical Kabba while the College of Education would be relocated to another venue and the government was considering Mopa Moro Local Government Area of the state for the task.

Edited by Dada Ahmed.