Tertiary Education Trust Fund has completed improvements worth N722 million at Isa Mustapha Agwai I Polytechnic, Lafia, to create a comfortable studying environment for students, as captioned by the Entrepreneurng report.
The announcement was made by Dr. Justina Kotso, rector of Polytechnic, in Lafia at the opening of TETFund-funded projects as part of the institution’s pre-convocation preparations for Wednesday’s simultaneous convocation ceremony for the 2013–2014 school year and the 2021–2022 academic year.
Kotso listed the projects, which included a building housing student housing, a building housing an architecture studio, and a building housing a workshop and labs for civil engineering.
The Rector praised TETFund for working with the government of Nasarawa State to locate the building projects at the school and pledged to use and preserve the buildings for the benefit of all polytechnic students.
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As seen by the development and execution of these initiatives, we are extremely grateful for TETFund’s consistent support and ongoing involvement in our institution, Kotso said.
I want to reassure TETFund and the administration of Nasarawa State that our staff and students would safeguard these buildings and make good use of them, she stated.
Sonny Echono, the executive secretary of the TETFund, thanked the administration and staff of the polytechnic for their cooperation and efforts in ensuring the projects’ prompt completion in his speech. Babatunde Olajide, the director of monitoring and evaluation, was speaking on Echono’s behalf.
Notably, the projects that are now being commissioned fall under the fund’s Year 2021 Annual Special and Year 2022 Annual Intervention. To make our public tertiary institutions competitive on a worldwide scale, we will work to maintain and enhance our intervention efforts within the bounds of the law.
The governor of Nasarawa State and the polytechnic’s visitor, Abdullahi Sule, pledged to cooperate with the administration of the institution to ensure the school’s quick growth and development while launching the projects.
“When we took office in 2019, the accredited courses in the school were either Arts or Social Sciences, but today, all technical courses have been accredited,” said Sule, who was represented by his deputy, Emmanuel Akabe.”
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In conclusion, to make this polytechnic the greatest in the nation, we shall keep keeping a watch on it.
Source: Punch
