Minister of Works and Housing,Babatunde Fashola has inaugurated five roads and car park at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
The projects were part of the Federal Government’s intervention on internal roads for tertiary institutions.
They are Alvan Ikoku, Tafawa Balewa road, Bunu Jike Crescent, UNILAG Shopping complex and a car park.
Fashola said President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to quality infrastructure delivery across tertiary institutions.
The minister, represented by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mr Umar Bakare, said the government had intervened on 83 roads in tertiary institutions across the nation.
Fashola said over 60 roads had been fully rehabilitated in various federal tertiary institutions across the country.
He said 18 campus roads were ready, while 19 were nearing completion.
The minister said the upgrade of road infrastructure within the tertiary institutions, was another strategic intervention of the government in supporting education through a conducive learning environment.
“The institutions are assets of the Federal Government,” he said.
Responding to the requests of the university community, the minister said tertiary infrastructure upgrade was continuous.
Bakare promised to visit the more sites the management complained about to make a proposal for intervention.
The Vice Chancellor of UNILAG, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, hailed Buhari for the initiative.
She said the upgraded roads had made the campus more conducive for learning.
Ogunsola solicited more interventions in other parts of the campus, including a new road to enable the development of land spaces to augment overstretched and inadequate facilities.
She said potholes on various stretches of roads caused a lot of hardship before the intervention and commended the quality of construction.
The vice chancellor said the future of the nation and youths would be mortgaged without investment in the education sector as being done by Buhari.
The President, Faculty of Social Sciences, UNILAG, Mr. Stanley Ikechukwu, appreciated the intervention, which, according to him, had led to an increase in class attendance.
Earlier, the Assistant Director of Federal Highways in Lagos State, Mrs Olukorede Keisha, an alumna of UNILAG, thanked the Federal Ministry of Works engineers for upholding quality in the project.
She said the project would boost the morale of students and ensure commitment to academic excellence.
Keisha thanked the VC and university management for their support in actualising the project.
